Our top reasons to challenge yourself before considering your next role.

In the Media industry moving jobs every 2 years is seen as the norm, and in many cases a 2 year stint in the same agency is considered impressive with an average churn rate of over 30%. Some of the candidates in the market have managed to work for every one of the top five media agency groups before reaching their mid-twenties. This quick movement and “quick progression”, when moving from agency to agency is creating certain limitations for candidates who have worked in a number of different agencies. Realistically, what’s next? Continue Reading

When applying for a new position, many job descriptions request a cover letter and it’s always promoted by job sites to ‘attach a cover letter’, but is it worth your time?

For the majority of cover letters we receive, unfortunately our conclusion would be a resounding no. Sometimes the cover letter might even work against you! Continue Reading

The media industry, particularly digital media, is an extremely small network and something we have certainly learnt and seen. Everybody knows everybody, and everybody talks (I sound like Gossip Girl now!)

Something we often see happening in the industry is people earning negative reputations for their behaviour, whether it’s from frequent job hopping, by bad mouthing their current employer, and also sending their CV for the same role through several different recruiters, things such as these can cause you problems later on when job hunting. Continue Reading

We’ve talked about the most common questions we receive in terms of moving to Australia for work, but there are still other factors about moving overseas that really need to be considered, before you pack your shorts or bikini and head down under. Continue Reading

So you’ve got to the interview stage with a client, things are starting to progress and you could be getting very close to landing an exciting role… so how do you ensure you do your best?

One of the key things that’s important to remember with interviews is to keep your wits about you, no matter how casual the interview might seem, you need to be careful. We’ve had a few serious lapses of common sense happen in our interviews (candidates being too tired to answer questions as 4pm, and talking about taking ‘sickies’ when hungover…). Fortunately, this isn’t too common, and most people know what not to say in an interview, but they aren’t quite sure how best to prepare. Here are a few tips which could help you: Continue Reading