Fox Kalomaski Win MAG Account

Fox Kalomaski, the specialist integrated agency, has won the Manchester Airport Group advertising account........read more.

OMD Keeps £1m Eurotunnel Account

After a pitch against Carat and MediaCom, OMD retains the Eurotunnel account.......read more.

Calling all Multi-Taskers…

No, i'm not just talking to the ladies :) …

Recently I have been experiencing an increased demand for developers with a multitude of skills and have several opportunities at the moment of this elk! I am in need of talented individuals with both Design and Development skills. Individuals that can take an idea… run with it and see it through from conception to completion!!

Social Networking – 30-40k http://www.bdrecruitment.com/technical/job-detail.php?id=2308
Creative Agency – 20-25k http://www.bdrecruitment.com/technical/job-detail.php?id=2301

If you feel that you are up for the challenge or know someone who is then i want to hear from you!! Every friend referred is worth £300 if placed so definately worth your while..

Contact - katie@bdrecruitment.com

Pender's PPC Pandemonium!

Well its been a brilliant July for moi with lots of jobs filled and they are already stacking up for the start of August. In particular there has been an influx in PPC jobs which is a change to the many SEO roles that have been coming in recently. The HOT jobs at the minute are;

PPC Specialist Agency Side Manchester Based £23-25k
PPC Specialist/Manager Niche Agency Sheffield £25-28k
PPC Manager Client Side multi-million pound company 40 minutes south of Birmingham £35k

Our referral fee is up to £300 so even if you may not be looking its always worth recommending a friend and running the risk of filling your pocket with lots of BD's cash!

Contact stephanie@bdrecruitment.com

Women In Line Behind Men?

Experteer, the executive career website, has commented on the lack of women in high profile career positions.........read more.

British Army Join Forces With AKQA

The British Army has appointed AKQA to handle its digital marketing strategy with specific focus on its recruitment platform.......read more.

Bing Fails To Hit Target

Figures for Microsoft's Bing search engine have shown disappointing figures for unique users in June........read more.

Pfizer Invites Agencies To Ptich For Anti-Smoking Campaign

Pfizer, the Pharmaceutical company, is inviting agencies to pitch for a new anti-smoking campaign worth £5m........read more.

Kraft Foods To Review Its £300m International Media Accounts

Kraft Foods is to review its international media accounts, market by market.........read more.

Beck’s To Review Its £25m Global Advertising Business

Along with Budweiser, Beck's is to review its global advertising business after Lowe London quit the £25m account.....read more.

Budweiser To Review £5.5 million UK and Ireland Accounts

Budweiser is to review its UK and Ireland accounts worth £5.5 million.......read more.

Yahoo! and Microsoft Finally End Speculation……

After months of rumours, Microsoft and Yahoo! are to officially announce that there will be an online search and advertising deal.......read more.

All Respnse Media Retain BeatThatQuote Account

All Response Media, a good client of BD Marketing, have kept the £8m media account after repitching for the business.........read more.

Employers: Are you making the most of your interviews?

Imagine the situation where, as a hiring manager, you have your ideal candidate sitting right in front of you. They are perfect technically; culturally; they fall into the salary bracket; they tick all the right boxes - yet they never come to work for you. Is it the job? Is it the company they dislike? Did they not like you? Perhaps, but in this case, they just didn’t know enough.

It’s an age old phrase, but good candidates actually are hard to find. So if you have managed to get them into the same room as you, why waste the opportunity? Gone are the days when an employer can be arrogant enough to think that a first interview is purely for the candidate to sell themselves to you. In such competitive times, if you don’t make your company’s opportunities clear to the candidate at the outset, you can guarantee the next company they see will – and who will have made the strongest impression on them?!

An employer looking to build the best team needs to refine interview technique and be able to sell the company as they would to a prospective client. Too many companies waste the chance of a first interview and wait for the second to sell the organisation; but how many times does this chance not materialise? And if it does, you will still, more than likely, have competition for this person’s services. Clients, who aim to establish the candidate’s competencies and suitability for the role at first stage along with presenting themselves with vigour, often make the second interview a formality. The candidate is already sold on the opportunity and the second visit means cementing an already forged relationship. It maybe that a more established and exciting company than your own is also interviewing this person, but all too often it’s the company that presents themselves in detail and with enthusiasm that gets the hire, rather than the “best” firm. What use is knowing the candidate is right for you and offering, only to find out that they don’t know enough about you to get too excited. Wave goodbye to the potential employee and back to the drawing board.

In today’s recruitment process, it is the company that takes their time to interview well and act quickly on decisions that bags the best candidates on the market.

As an employer you often want a pro-active, passionate, decisive and motivated employee. What makes you think the candidate would be looking for anything different from you?

For more advice on presenting yourself and your company in the best fashion and making the most of your interviews, contact Harriet at BD Recruitment on 0844 8009390.

Good front AND back end web skills?

..then we want to hear from you. A genuinely up and coming digital agency has assigned BD to find them an mid-weight Web Developer with PHP, HTML, CSS skills. You'll have experience in an agency environment and be based in Cheshire. Contact us with your CV now !!!

Microsoft Suffers Significant Hit

Microsoft reports significant loss in profit and revenues............read more.

Kate's positions

I have several roles in London for Digital AD's and AM's for International Integrated Media Agencies. They are fantastic opportunities for passionate and ambitious people who are looking to kick start your career!

Also a more technical role for an International Travel Operator, looking for a Account Exec who will be in charge of managing, tracking and analysing CPC campaigns. You must have experience - this one you earn free holidays!!

Call me if you are interested or if you know anyone who would be interested please recommend them- you cold earn £300!

Manchester Digital launch OneDigital

Manchester Digital have joined with South East Media and Bristol Media to collectively pool their resources for the digital industry in the creation of OneDigital...................read more.

Yahoo!'s Relaunch

Yahoo!, yesterday, relaunched it's homepage with a focus on personalised advertising for its users...........read more.

Mail Online - Favourite UK National Newspaper Site

The Mail Online is the favourite UK National Newspaper site after gaining a record number of unique visitors for June.......read more.

BBH and Warburtons End 12 year Relationship

BBH and Warburtons are to cease their relationship after 12 years together as Warburtons opens up its advertising account...........read more.

Skive Buy Into Soup

The digital agencies, Skive and Soup, are to pool their resources as Skive buy a controlling stake in Soup..........read more.

Barclays Push European Advertising Campaign

Barclays is said to be looking at ways to improve its advertising campaigns specifically in the Western European markets..........read more.

Carlsberg Review Its Global Advertising Account

Carlsberg will review its global advertising account with a pitch process this August..........read more.

COI To Review Its £211m Media Account

The COI is to consolidate its £211m media buying account........read more.

MPG Wins Clarks Media Account

MPG takes £12 million media planning and buying account from Universal McCann Manchester........read more.

Direct Marketing "Trainee" Needed in North Yorkshire !!!

Are client is a rapidly expanding home shopping company for the UK market and internationally. This role is key to ambitious growth plans. You will work with the marketing manager to prepare and deliver direct marketing campaigns to achieve sales and profit targets; You will focus on recruiting new customers and developing the contact strategy for the existing customer file

Ideally with a degree in Marketing or business studies and at least 12 months experience in campaign management, direct marketing or home shopping. You will be very conversant in Microsoft Excel to extract and manipulate data

info@bdrecruitment.com for more info

Calling all SEO Experts

We need an expert in the Greater London area as soon as possible. Great opportunity for a great candidate. Current best practice and experience in the currency exchange markets is a must. If your interested or know someone that is, let us know, referral fees available. The big smoke is calling!!! Contact me for more details vivian@bdrecruitment.com

First Come First Served...

Although the gorgeous weather we have been having seems to have taken a turn for the worst... i am pleased to announce the opposite in the world of development! Is it true what they say... the world really is back online?!? An exciting week for me and as a result i seem to have an increased demand for highly skilled developers based in the Yorkshire region and numerous exciting roles up for grabs! First come first served please (and do all rush at once!!!!) Whether you're a wizz at .Net or have the Open Source bug i want to hear from you - katie@bdrecruitment.com

Jobseekers Allowance Falls But Unemployment Still Rising?

The latest figures for claimants of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) in Manchester have shown a drop despite unemployment figures continuing to rise............read more.

Mediaedge:cia Win Mercedes Benz Account

Mediaedge:cia steal the €145m Mercedes-Benz media account from PHD.........read more.

Google's Profits Increase

The Online advertising industry is moving in the direction of recovery, with the announcement that Google has posted an 18% increase in post-tax profits.Google posted profits of £901m ($1.48bn ) in this year’s 2nd quarter, with revenues increasing by 3% from Q1 to £3.36bn ($5.52bn).

Mixed Week At BD

Firstly the good news: BD had won some major accounts this week on the back of our recent appointment of a Business Development Manager. A team of Account Managers are currently being interviewed so as far as we are concerned, the recession is well and truly over.
Now the bad news....our football team took a hammering this week, meaning with a game to go this season, we certainly wont be crowned as champions. I'm sure we'll recover though and once again match the success of the recruiters inside the office.

Mysupermarket.co.uk Brings Soskin on Board

Mysupermarket.co.uk has announced the appointment of David Soskin to its board in the position of vice-chairman. Soskin is particularly interested in joining Mysupermarket.co.uk at this time of development for the company........read more.

ESPN To Launch UK Channel

Disney owned broadcaster, ESPN, has revealed the agencies is it to work with on the launch of its new UK channel.......read more.

Microsoft Top of The Superbrands

Microsoft knocks Google off the top of the Superbrands poll…...read more.

B&Q Appoint New Ad Agency for £40m Account

After a pitch including M&C Saatchi, Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy and Rapier, it is reported that McCann Erickson has won the £40 million advertising account for DIY Retailer, B&Q............read more.

Autoglass Awards Starcom £20m Media Account

Starcom has won the Autoglass media planning and buying account worth £20 million........read more.

Social Network Advertising Will Suffer

Social Network Advertising is said to be the latest sector to be hit by the recession.....read more.

Bellweather Report Suggests the Storm Has Passed

The Bellweather report for the second quarter of 2009 suggests that the marketing industry is recovering...........read more.

Microsoft Offer Millions of Free Advertising

Microsoft is reported to be including millions of dollars worth of free advertising with the sale of its digital agency, Razorfish........read more.

Social Media Set To Surge

In the most recent Interactive Marketing Forecast undertaken by Forrester Research, social media is predicted to cause a big stir in the digital advertising arena over the next five years...........read more.

Digital Advertising Pushes Ahead

The online media industry has faired the best in the recent economic climate in comparison to the more traditional methods of advertising..............read more.

Dentsu To Buy Razorfish?

Dentsu looks set to rival WPP and Publicis in the bid for Razorfish..........read more.

Job Market Continues To Decline For June

The latest Reports on Jobs from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG have showed that the employment market continued to decline further through June, although at a slower rate than previously.............
However, to contrast with the report, BD Recruitment experienced a surge in starters for June with a significant number of permanent employees starting in a new job..........read more.

Profounders Capital To Offer Alternative Funding For Digital Start Ups

A new group, Profounders Capital, has been created as a venture capital firm with the view to offer alternative funding for digital start up companies.............read more.

The Work Foundation report published this month, Recession and Recovery: How UK cities can respond and drive the recovery, has stated Manchester as one of the most promising cities to come through the recession. The report has considered factors contributing to the response of the cities to the recession and their recovery plan. read on...

Have We Bottomed Out?

According to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Economic Survey, the worst of the recession for the UK has passed with industries showing promising signs of recovery. Both the manufacturing and service industries showed improvement, with manufacturing fairing better than services for Q2 of 2009, although when considering the overall sector well being, with the significant hit that it took in the beginning for the recession, it is still in worse condition when taken as a whole.

Q1 Lending targets Not Met

The Credit Control Survey for the first quarter of 2009 by the Bank of England has revealed that business lending did not meet the expected targets as set out from the previous quarter. The survey showed that, due to a number of factors, lending was not at the level expected for Q1 of 2009.

BD Need Staff !!!!

Despite the gloom, BD continue to seek the very best talent out there. We have a newly set-up London desk, offering technical recruitment solutions to existing clients. We need a Trainee to join us on this area.
We are also looking for a Resourcer plus an Account Manager to join our new Business Development Team. If you are looking for a route into the industry, then who better than BD?!!

Wicked Wednesday

I’ve returned from my lovely weekend in the rainy Lakes to be greeted by some awesome clients looking for PPC Execs, Managers and Head of Search. You would be mad to not want to hear about these opportunities so give me a call and let’s have a chat!

0844 088 9390

Cheers!

Hot Jobs in London Town!

So hot jobs of the week are as follows..........

PPC Executive £23k
Biggest Agency globally
Surely you can't say no?

PPC Manager £30k
Top 10 Agency
Great culture to work in (very friendly!)

International Search Director £55k
Stunning Offices (seriously its like being on holiday!)

Global Head of Online Marketing £65k
Client Side - need I say more?!

If none of the above take your fancy then just get in touch with me...I have others ready and waiting! Thanks guys!

michelle@bdrecruitment.com

Hot Hot Hot!

Not only is the temperature still hot here but so are the jobs!
One role in particular has got my attention based in Leeds for an SEO Specialist. To be considered you must be a LEGEND! On & off page skills and an agency background. Contact me for details or pass onto your SEO friends and colleagues for a referral treat...........
stephanie@bdrecruitment.com

£20 On The Nose

After winning the recent incentive, Mich and Steph (Peggy Mitchell) are mixing it with the horsey crowd tomorrow. After experiencing Sahara-level temperatures in the office all week we were looking forward to picking up a tan at Haydock, but the weather looks awful. Looks like we'll be sipping our pims under a brolly for the day. What's that Steph?..... "Get out of my pub!"

Pender Pandemonium!.....

Well its already a busy start to July with lots of PPC, SEO & Digital roles in the North West & Yorkshire so I'm going to need a little help! If you know or sit next to any of the above get in touch as we have a fantastic referral scheme on at the moment. What do you get out of it? Some extra cash in your pocket for those summer holidays either for treats for the kids or some extra beer money. What do I get out of it? Happy clients and some fantastic roles filled.
For more details on the role or to recommend a friend contact Stephanie Pender on 0844 800 9390 or email me on stephanie@bdrecruitment.com. Lots of updates on our jobs coming tomorow on the site........

Search

Hi guys and girls, I don't believe BD is suffering in the Credit Crunch. I have heaps of jobs in Online Marketing (search) and I need candidates. I have some fantastic positions with International Agencies in London with great future opportunities, also my client-side roles are exciting too with European Blue-Chip brands. I really have got it all.

On another note, how hot is it!!!!!!