The use of social media in recruitment is a hot topic at the moment. Job hunters are using tools such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to market their skills and search for opportunities. Whilst employers and recruiters are using these sites to connect with candidates.
Where technology meets recruitment is a place we’re spending a lot of our time at the moment. And we’re not alone. Our Director, Martin Cerullo, has been supporting our colleagues in Asia as they comment on the growing trend in their region.
Read the article and watch this space for an interview on Singapore TV coming soon.
Well, we’ve finally made it. Our site is up and running.
Now we have the chance to show the world what we’ve been up to. Of course this site doesn’t show the full story, and we have many more tales to share about how far we have come since launching in late 2007. But nevertheless we hope this site will encourage debate and stimulate thinking for both existing and future clients. We hope you like it, and please feel free to post a comment on this post about anything you see. We’ll be adding to the site regularly and often so hopefully you’ll find something you like. If not, maybe we should create something for you that you will.
The brief
Find 25 passionate, ambitious, global citizens with three to five years’ work experience to join Momentum, Prudential’s management development programme.
It was no easy task. We were looking for a very special kind of person.
Prudential required people always ready for change, people who would be comfortable with ambiguity, with international travel – and with starting a real job from day one, in a different culture, without having their hands held. They weren’t looking for talents with egos. They were looking for individuals keen to use their experience of leading and making a difference to work together and progress towards future leadership positions. Read the rest of this entry »
Molson Coors Brewing Company are one of our most successful clients. They’re always open to new ideas, we’ve done a lot of great work with them, and they have a fun, simple and memorable employer value proposition: ‘Love Beer, Work Here’.
So when they came to us to have a rethink of what ‘Love Beer, Work Here’ might look like we were really excited. We had just under two weeks to develop a new adbook for all their press, email and banner recruitment advertising for 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a busy 18 months for the Marketing & Communications and Resourcing Communications teams at Alexander Mann Solutions as we developed and launched our new brand (all in-house, of course).
In February 2008 AMS acquired Capital Consulting, then one of the leading RPO providers in Europe. We knew from the very start that this meant something new and very exciting for the industry and a fresh brand would have to be developed to communicate our combined strengths. Read the rest of this entry »
The Brief
In March 2008, Zurich Financial Services Group found they were experiencing a shortage of property and motor claims handlers in the Farnborough and Leeds areas and gave us the opportunity to target prospective employees.
Their recruitment challenges were due to a very competitive market in Leeds, and an employee value proposition that wasn’t attracting target candidates from local companies such as AON, Thomson Directory, Nokia, BAE and Allianz, in Farnborough.
We were asked to devise a clear and engaging employee value proposition to ensure Zurich stood out from its competitors and to increase the level of direct hires, rather than using agency channels. Read the rest of this entry »
The brief
Deloitte wanted to create a more measurable employer brand experience as their previous agency offering stopped at simply delivering creative work for recruitment campaigns. As well as encouraging brand recognition and attraction amongst both internal employees and potential candidates, all creative work needed to push the brand and bring a “smile to the mind” of anyone who touched it. Read the rest of this entry »
The Brief
Thales recently asked us to create press and radio advertising to raise awareness of them as a leading employer in the Glasgow area.
Mention the name ‘Thales Optronics’ to anyone outside the secretive world of electrical and optical engineering and you’re likely to get a puzzled expression. Read the rest of this entry »
