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Lawrence Akers is one of the funniest guys I know! Working alongside him for the past ten years has been a highlight of my career. In this interview, Lawrence shares with us what he did prior to Recruitment and how one, very direct, question lead to a 15+ year career as a Recr...

Cheryl Payne is the CEO of The Resilience Group which specialises in Executive Business Coaching, Executive Recruitment and Process Improvement Consulting for high achieving business leaders dedicated to becoming resilient in an ever-changing world. In this interview I discove...

This week in Creative Conversations, Vicki-Anne speaks to Vanessa Dolan about her global career working inside Advertising Agencies, before her career transition into Recruitment for the creative industry.

Gemma had been with the same company for nine years before she was let go. Nine years! Yes, that’s a long time to give your loyalty to one company and then to be told one day that, sorry, you’re no longer needed. I don’t think there is a single creative out there who does this...

The news might be telling you that we’re in a recession but right now it feels like there is opportunity to work for those looking. Even at Creative Recruiters, we’re so much busier right now than what I would’ve personally expected for a recruitment agency in a recession. Thi...

It’s hard to believe that at one point there, Windows was absolutely dominating Apple in the home computer department. Almost like a Betamax vs VHS battle once again, both were excellent options but one seemed to have the edge over the other. And then one day, Apple had a real...

Some jobs are inevitably going to build more of an identity than others. Some people will do a job simply because it is a way to earn money and they discover that it is something that they’re good at. Within the creative world though, it can be a little bit different. For some...

As part of getting to know a new creative, I have to explore not only what they're good at and what they specialise in but also what things they consider might need further improvement or development. The response to that question 99% of the time is a single word: "digital". T...

This week we met with a candidate that had been struggling to find freelance work for 12 months. At first we wondered what was wrong because he has highly sought after skills, he is a really nice guy and he’s been in the industry for a long time. Then we started to talk to him...

To be honest, for much of my working life, I’ve always been plagued by a concern that maybe I wasn’t very good at my job. Despite the fact that there were targets being met and strong relationships being built, there was a part of me that always felt like any success had come ...