Marketing agencies see 1414% increase in vacancies

Marketing agencies were hit hard by the pandemic – in Q2 of 2020 a huge number of network and independent agencies had to put a pause on recruitment, pause activity for their clients and make a number of redundancies.

As the world has slowly started to wake up, agencies are back! Clients are back to pre-pandemic budget spend and need the people back in those previously redundant roles. One example of this was Omnicom's worldwide revenue for the first six months of the year reaching $6.9bn, a 12.7% increase on last year’s figures (The Drum, July 22, 2021). 
The increase in spend has also caused a huge number of extra roles to become open to continue to grow accounts. Roles across PPC, SEO & Paid Social are at an all-time high! We recorded a significant 1414% increase in roles between June 2020 and June 2021. 

Revenue taken by Facebook, Linkedin and other social media platforms is predicted to be over $50bn this year, according to research from TradingPlatforms.com and Statista. Their report claims revenue from display advertising alone will grow 16.7% this year, compared to 2020. (The Drum, July 22, 2021).

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Impact on interview processes 

Due to the huge number of roles available at the moment, the limited pool of candidates that are available tend to have 5-10 processes happening at one time. This means that agencies need to speed up their interview processes and keep them to a maximum of 2 stages, taking no longer than a week.

58% of 47,606 people surveyed by us in June 2021 said that 2 interviews were the maximum number of interviews they would expect before accepting a role. 
The slower the process, the larger likelihood of the candidate accepting a role elsewhere, we have to move fast at the moment to secure talent! 

Staying competitive in a busy market 

Businesses need to be able to sell in their business and the opportunity to the interviewee. With 80% of the 32,052 people we surveyed in June 2021 stating they're actively looking for a new opportunity, now is a great time to go find a brilliant candidate... the caveat(?), there's also a significant rise in opporunities. Therefore, interviews must be treated as a 2-way-street and we need candidates to be sold in otherwise they will just look elsewhere – they have all the choice in the world at the moment.

Salaries... try and be as competitive as you can with salaries, your competitors will be!

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