2025 has been a very peculiar year in recruitment terms.  Whilst we in the UK are not technically in recession, the year has been difficult with a lot of uncertainty and from my perspective, more redundancies in the creative sector than 2008 (an actual recession).  There have been fewer opportuniti…

I'm trying to remember what I've been watching on TV recently but I have repeatedly seen variations of an Advert from the online jobs platform Indeed.  Multiple variations of the advert show what is what I would say looks like an extremely awkward (and unrealistic) interview situation where…

I do feel old when I now consider that I have been in recruitment within the marketing/creative/advertising sector for over 20 years.  Longer than I was actually working in marketing now!   But I do think that mostly I've had it pretty good.  Particularly, working for myself which was the best …

From time to time, Mr PMP throws me suggestions for blog topics.  After 17 years of writing the monthly PMP blog, I can get a bit stumped trying to come up with anything new and quite often, it's a case of writing about how things have changed or evolved over the years.  Fortunately, he is a re…

This week I read an interesting article in the Times.  Long term sick leave is apparently a big problem in the UK.  Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary has appointed Sir Charlie Mayfield (ex chairman of John Lewis) to come up with a plan to stop workers leaving their jobs because of poor h…

I had a CV from a candidate around 6 weeks ago.  We had a few initial emails and several diarised calls failed to happen.  I do a weekly email round up of the latest opportunities that I am working on (let me know if you'd like to receive it!) so I thought, OK, I'll park it there, there'…

It's funny.  My USP as a recruiter working in the marketing and advertising sector used to be that I worked in marketing and advertising before coming into recruitment.  I used to say that I'd have no interest in say, recruiting for train drivers or accountants (and this is still true!).  G…

I was musing what I should cover for my April Blog.  There were a few options (although frankly, everything has been covered before!).     I decided to cover two semi related topics.  Job adverts online - real or fake and then the number of volume of applications that we see highlighted when apply…

I've said before that I am a bit of a Luddite...but with the years come technological advances and whilst some can be life changing, some, not so much. I can't fight them all though and I'm certainly an adopter of some.  ChatGPT and AI are not really that new but we've had a few ins…