Creating the ideal team is essential, but it’s also incredibly tough. The Digital Marketing space is suffering from a significant skills shortage. Employers are continually competing to earn the attention of the top-tier talent their recruitment agencies send them. And while certifications and experience count in many recruitment strategies, it’s essential not to overlook the importance of “composition” when crafting the right team. Ideally, you’ll need to look not only at the things someone new can bring to their specific role but…

Recruitment in the Digital Marketing space can be challenging. It takes a well thought through and planned strategy, thorough screening, and the use of careful analysis to get it right. Being in the grip of a skills short market, especially for Digital Marketing talent, an enticing job description is imperative if you want to attract the top people to your organisation. From a tactical viewpoint, job descriptions work as an important guide in all aspects…

I’m Alex Marriner, Founder & Recruitment Director at Acquire Digital Talent. I’ve specialised in hiring Digital Marketing professionals for over a decade and have a wealth of experience working with high growth companies across London and Europe. Hiring the very best candidates with Data-Driven Marketing skills can be a nightmare in today’s ever-competitive market. Whether you’re an established brand, growing tech start-up or even digital agency, everyone is looking to take this talent on board,…

In order to ensure a smooth onboarding process, you need to lay the groundwork with your new workers as soon as possible. This is just as true for remote workers as workers who take a position in your physical offices. Ask any experienced manager and they will be able to tell you how much of a difference the preparatory work that you do will make to the entire onboarding process.   How To Prepare Them…

Can you really have a successful, end to end recruitment process that’s 100% remote?   Absolutely!   For companies still in a position to hire, one factor putting hiring managers off will be that they won’t have any ‘flesh time’ with proposed candidates, which could be quite an alien experience. However, unless you’re preparing to just stand still over upcoming weeks and months, hiring whilst working remotely is your only option.   But you shouldn’t…

Many people are trying to remember the last time they updated their CV and whereabouts they saved it on their laptop!   I’ve touched upon this topic in different blogs, posts, and videos before, but with an influx of job seekers to the market, I thought it was crucial for a quick refresher.   During my recruitment career, there’s been a constant theme of what’s been missing from many CV’s, and it’s ABSOLUTELY crucial you…

By the year 2022, Cisco predicts that more than 82% of all consumer internet traffic will be videos – a 15 times increase since 2017. Couple this fact with research from Insivia that shows viewers are able to retain 95% of a message when it is delivered via video, compared to 10% when it is delivered as text, and it isn’t surprising that so many businesses are turning to video interviews for recruitment. While writing…

Modern video conferencing and communications technologies are much more advanced than they used to be, which has opened up a number of new possibilities when it comes to using video calling during the recruitment process. Acquire Digital Talent uses video interviews throughout the recruitment process. We include video interviews with potential candidates for our clients that augment their CVs and bring their applications to life for you. With our partnership program, you don’t have to…

We understand that human interaction is vital when it comes to recruitment. So rather than trying to automate this aspect like many other recruitment companies, we are focused on enhancing it. We’ve invested in state-of-the-art video engagement technology that allows us to present candidates to our clients in a far more efficient light. How it works:   We conduct five-minute face-to-face video interviews using questions specified by the client. We then send these recordings, that…

Having spent 1000’s of hours over the last 10 years speaking with a host of candidates and clients about the ins and outs of Digital Marketing recruitment, I set up Acquire Digital Talent with the following goal in mind:   To provide a high-quality service by working together with my clients in a true partnership model, with both parties being open, honest and respectful.   In order to do this, I truly believe that whenever…