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Graduate recruiters in marketing & advertising hiring

We hire the best talent for the best companies.

We hire marketing graduates and build advertising teams for some of the most interesting companies in the country.

Our graduate marketing recruiting services are robust and sharp. We hire marketers in an average of 18 days, which is over twice as good as the industry average (42).

We have the graduate advertising and marketing talent you’re looking for. And we’re ready to grow your team.

Get in touch today, or read on to find out more about why we’re the leading advertising and marketing recruiters in London and across the UK.

Stephen, Commercial Director, Digital Marketing Platform

Our Account Manager has been our go-to contact at Give a Grad a Go for the last two years. In that time she has successfully placed two (now recently three) candidates within our company – both of whom are still working for us, and we couldn’t be happier.

Give a Grad a Go’s communication was excellent. They made a real effort to work closely with us to decipher exactly the right kind of people for our business.

What can we offer you?

We know marketing

We’ve been recruiting marketing staff for UK businesses since 2009, and have become specialists.

Nearly 20% of our placements are in marketing & advertising areas.

And 82% of our marketing placements come from repeat clients. Our advertising and marketing recruiting strategies are proven and trusted.

Unique talent

We hire distinct marketing talent from our database of over 400,000 graduates.

Around 50% of candidates have either expressed an interest in marketing or advertising, or listed relevant experience in their CVs.

We can hire a Digital Marketing employee or hire Content Writer, but we also hire Analysts, Project Managers, Client Executives, and more within marketing companies.

Diverse hiring

Our hiring is for everyone.

Of our marketing & advertising hires, 63% are women.

We recruit at every level: we are always hiring graduates in junior, assistant, executive, specialist, and senior roles.

Recruitment advice

Top tips for advertising and marketing hiring

Know your job criteria

Are you looking to hire a Marketing Consultant? Or perhaps you want to hire Digital Marketing experts? Or maybe you specifically need to hire a Social Media Marketer?

There are many different types of marketing job roles, so if you’re looking for Marketing Executives it’s a good idea that you share with your Account Manager the exact criteria of the role.

Our specialist marketing recruiters will be able to suggest some other suitable job titles that you might not have thought about. A few slight changes to your job title or job description can make huge differences to the quality and/or suitability of candidates applying.

 

Know your industry

Give a Grad a Go has partnered with most of the UK’s top universities. So, this marketing and advertising recruitment company has an advantage finding candidates who have studied a specific course or attended a certain university.

We offer a more bespoke service than other advertising recruitment specialists or graduate marketing recruitment agencies in London. We don’t just find marketing professionals, we will ensure that you hire marketing professionals who have a real passion for your industry, whether that be agency, in-house, creative, tech, B2B or B2C.

 

Know your salary bracket

All marketing employment agencies will agree that when you hire a marketing professional, you need to ensure you offer a wage that reflects the value and experience of the individual.

For example, if you’re looking to hire a marketing team and need to hire a Marketing Manager, make sure you offer a salary that fits the position’s seniority.

You really do get what you pay for. Providing a strong base salary will ensure you find the very best talent when you hire your marketing team. Visit our graduate employment statistics archive to find out what other companies are paying their marketing employees.

 

Offer awards and incentives

For both sales and marketing hiring, it’s a good idea to set some targets or have some incentives in place to keep your employees motivated. This may be particularly the case if you’re hiring for an analytical marketing role.

If you’re hiring Marketing Managers, perhaps this is something you’d ask them at interview stages. Or, if you’re hiring Marketing Assistants, you could think about what realistic and achievable targets you can set, before looking to hire marketing person and then use this as an incentive in the interview.

Think about what personal and team targets you can offer, such as ‘Marketing Employee of the Month’, or additional monetary bonuses to recognise exceptional hard work.

 

Invest in learning and development

Our graduate candidates are career-driven and passionate about learning. In our 2019 graduate employer research, a survey we conducted on graduates revealed that ‘learning and development’ ranked 1st on their list of ‘what is most important in a job’. It scored higher than ‘salary’, ‘benefits and perks’ and ‘company culture’.

So, make sure you commit the investment to development that your employees deserve.

 

Offer clear opportunities for progression

Take into consideration both the personal and professional development of employees. ‘Growth opportunities’ ranked 2nd in importance for graduates when looking for a job.

So, having a clear path for progression will help to attract great talent, particularly if candidates enquire about this at interview stages.

 

Refine your onboarding process

Ensuring you have a well thought out onboarding procedure will help to retain the graduates you hire.

What makes us different from other London marketing recruitment agencies is that we can help you with the onboarding of your hires too.

We hope this has given you some insight into how to hire marketing person(s). If you follow these recruitment strategies, we are confident you’ll find the perfect candidate for the job.

Get in touch today to hire marketing specialists and find out more ways we can help your company grow.

 

 

Recruitment advice

What to look out for when hiring Marketing Executives?

Often when companies look to hire a marketer or recruit a marketing team, they are immediately drawn to candidates who have studied marketing or business degrees.

We always encourage clients to be open-minded and speak to graduates who have studied a whole variety of degree subjects. Many will have transferrable skills that can be applied to a marketing role. Look out for the extra-curricular activities that candidates have organised or engaged with.

So, what skills are needed when hiring a marketing person? Here is a breakdown of some of the key skills to look out for in a marketing employee…

 

General skills for companies looking to hire marketing teams:

 

Good teamwork skills – it is often that marketing personnel will need to work alongside other teams in a business; for example, the sales and operations teams. It is vital that you hire an individual who has the ability to work well in a team.

 

Strong attention to detail – good attention to detail is important in all areas of marketing, not just for an analytical marketing position. Marketers represent your brand, whether that be in the messages they put out on social media, or the content they write for your website.

 

Key skills if you’re looking to hire Content Marketers:

 

Writing skills – now this is an obvious one: why hire a content writer if they can’t write? We suggest you give candidates a writing task at interview stage, like writing a short blog post.

 

Creativity – when thinking about how to hire a content writer, you should also look out for someone with a generally creative mind and way of thinking.

 

Content SEO skills – nowadays it’s more important than ever to hire content writers with some knowledge of search engine optimisation. Being able to write effectively is one thing, but you should also look to invest in training your new hire to write SEO-tailored content.

 

Social Media Marketing hiring – skills to watch out for:

 

Adaptability – if you’re looking to hire social media specialists, they need to have the ability to keep up with the latest social media trends, as well as some knowledge of digital graphics is useful.

Social platforms & PPC – a solid understanding of all social platforms and how pay-per-click works across these channels is also a great skill to look out for when hiring a social media specialist. These can always be trained on the job if you choose to hire junior talent.

Good organisation and planning skills – this is particularly important if you are looking to hire a Social Media Manager. They will need to liaise with different teams in the business and come up with a social media content plan and different engagement strategies.

 

Key skills when looking for Marketing Managers:

 

Commercial awareness – they need to have the ability to think about how their activities are beneficial to the bottom line. The whole point of marketing is to help drive new business and revenue.

Leadership skills – it is vital that when recruiting Marketing Managers you ensure that candidates have what it takes to motivate and lead a team efficiently and confidently.

Drive to succeed – in any management position, the individual needs to have the passion and mindset to drive the business forwards and help meet the company’s targets.

Communication skills – this is important when managing a team.

 

Skills for hiring Digital Marketers:

 

Numerical skills – looking to hire a Digital Marketer or hire an Analyst? This of course requires working with numbers and data, and so sound knowledge of mathematics and statistical analysis is a must.

Excellent IT skills – when you’re looking to hire Digital Marketing employees, IT skills are vital. This can be difficult to measure at interview stages, so we suggest setting a task to test how computer-literate candidates are.

Technical SEO skills – this is something that can be trained on the job, but is a very sought after skill to have.

Curiosity – The digital marketing sector is always growing and evolving. Marketers never know what new platform or trends they may going to find next week: a new technology, a meme that goes viral, an update to Google’s algorithm…

 

Skills advertising recruitment companies should look out for when hiring:

 

Innovation – it’s about thinking outside the box! Look out for a candidate with unusual but fantastic ideas.

Visual editing – you’d expect the candidate to have a good eye for detail and at least know the basics of video and image editing, which is a key part of a brand’s communication.

Project management – as well as being able to manage multiple projects, having some experience in business relationships or partnerships development is also a key skill to have in an advertising role.

 

Any marketing staffing agency would agree that having experience in extracurricular activities can be as useful and relevant as having a marketing degree alone.

For example, when hiring marketing staff for a content writing role, look to recruit marketing professionals with experience in journalism or blogging regardless of whether they have an academic background in marketing.

A candidate who studies History but runs their own blog separate from their studies could be a great candidate. If they demonstrate a real creative flair in their writing, they could be the future talent to drive your website blog forward.

 

 

Recruitment advice

What to be wary of when recruiting Marketing Executives or advertising graduates?

Our thorough profiling and screening process filters out the best employees, saving our clients invaluable time scanning through endless CVs. Trusting our marketing recruiters in London with your hiring will enable you to focus your time elsewhere within the business. Our marketing recruitment experts give us an example of how they would hire a marketer:

Phoebe Shaw, Account Manager

When you are looking to hire a marketing professional, it is important to be clear with marketing and advertising recruiters and ensure you explain the role and the type of marketing they will be doing on a day-to-day basis.

Be careful that you’re not just looking at graduates who are applying for any marketing job just because they think it is a ‘fun’ role to be in.

Whether it’s a creative role or an analytical role, you need to dig deeper to find the perfect candidate.

If you are looking to hire a Content Marketer, then you need to look past the English degree. Ask them about their writing style and find out if can they write in the manner that your marketing company is looking for.

If it’s an analytical role, then it’s useful in the early stages that they’ve got some sort of mathematical A-level, like economics or a science.

Recruitment advice

Looking for a marketing recruitment agency in London? Here’s our expert recruitment marketing strategy:

Looking for media and advertising recruitment specialists and for sales and marketing recruitment agencies? You’ve come to the right place. At Give a Grad a Go, we have years of experience in the marketing and advertising recruitment sector, and have become one of the UK’s leading marketing recruitment companies.

So, whether you’re looking to hire a Marketing Executive, a Marketing Manager, or Digital Analyst for your business, here are some of the many ways we can help add exceptional marketing candidates to your business:

 

Understand your unique company goals and ways of working

From the outset, you will be assigned an Account Manager, who will be an expert in your industry. Your marketing recruitment specialist will meet with you and check in regularly to get to know your business. They’ll outline which of our services will be the best fit, and understand exactly the type of candidates you are looking for to grow your team

 

Offer expert advice and consultation style changes

In order to attract the right talent to a role, our industry expert recruiters will work alongside you every step of the way throughout the hiring process, offering advice on salaries based on our quarterly graduate employment reports.

They will also offer guidance on job specifications, from the best job titles to use, to how to sell your business in the best way possible.

 

A database of talented marketing candidates ready to go

At Give a Grad a Go, we have a plethora of talented graduates on our database, with 84% of candidates achieving a 1st, 2.1, or master’s degree at University.

With a database of over 300,000, we match the perfect graduates to a range of job roles every day, no matter how niche or specific your marketing role is.

 

Share our insights into the graduate jobs market

We know the graduate jobs market inside out, so as part of our bespoke service at Give a Grad a Go, we’ve created a range of useful material designed to inform and advise our clients.

Check out our employer recruitment blog full of the latest marketing recruitment news and talent acquisition advice.

 

Onboarding and aftercare

Even if you are not actively looking to hire, our consultants are always here to help.

They will check in with you at various times throughout the year to find out about your hiring plans, provide useful updates about the graduate recruitment market, and will always keep an eye out for specific top talent.

If you’re looking for only the best marketing recruiters and top graduate advertising agencies in London, get in touch using the sign-up form above.

Give a Grad a Go has the resources and ability to recruit marketing and advertising candidates that are perfect for you.

Our bespoke service and dedication to finding you the perfect candidate is what makes us stand out above the other marketing and advertising recruitment agencies in London.

 

 

Recruitment advice

How to write a Marketing Executive job description?

Want to hire a marketing person and wondering how to recruit Marketing Executives?

A central part of hiring the right marketing candidate for your Marketing Executive opportunity is to have a clear, defined, and engaging job description.

As one of the UK’s leading graduate Marketing Executive recruiting firms, here are our top tips for writing a standout Marketing Executive job description:

 

Entice candidates with a gripping opening section

The marketing industry is an exciting and constantly developing industry, so it’s key to give candidates an insight into what working in this industry involves.

Have a job overview section at the top of your vacancy and use this as a chance to sell the role and your company. Describe the type of company candidates will be joining, if you’re an agency, list any exciting clients you’re working with, and include upcoming projects they will be working on.

Excite the candidate about your opportunity and make them eager to find out more about the role!

 

Have a clear picture of your ideal candidate

For any role you’re hiring for, it’s crucial to list the required skills, characteristics, qualifications, and experience you’re looking for.

There are many different routes candidates can take to get into marketing, so make sure to include requirements like degrees. And, if so, whether you’d look for a degree in any particular field, along with any experience you require, like internships or previous roles.

You should also mention the key skills you’re looking for in an ideal Marketing Executive. Having years of experience recruiting Marketing Executives, we know some of the key skills and personality traits to look for.

Here are some of the most important:

  • Excellent planning and organisation skills
  • A creative thinker with excellent writing abilities
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Commercial awareness and knowledge of the latest industry trends
  • Confident individual with great networking abilities
  • The ability to work well in a team and individually
  • Technology savvy

 

List key responsibilities in detail

To allow potential applicants to decide if this is a role they feel capable of carrying out, and also a role that they will enjoy doing, it’s important to describe the common tasks of the role.

List what day-to-day duties your Marketing Executive will be responsible for, describe how their role fits into the wider company, and outline the teams they will be working closely with.

This will all give candidates a well-rounded understanding of what the role will entail.

 

Describe all the benefits and perks of the job

You should also include a ‘benefits of the job’ section in your Marketing Executive job description.

List any benefits, such as starting salary, travel opportunities, benefit packages, training opportunities, socials, or company trips.

While candidates value a competitive starting salary, they also value many other aspects of a role like progression and training. So, be sure to include all the perks of your opportunity.

Visit our graduate employment statistics archive to find out what other companies are paying their Marketing Executive graduates.

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