Tag: Hays

Student Marketing Teams Compete to Answer Creative Challenges in The Pitch 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Applications to CIM’s 2023/24 global competition – The Pitch – are now open to UK and international marketing students until Friday 01 December. Following a successful trial of last year’s postgraduate competition, The Challenge, this year’s competition will now be open to both postgraduate and undergraduate students. Eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students can enter from universities across the world as long as they are studying for or have completed a marketing degree, or a business degree containing a marketing module. Now in its thirteenth year, the competition challenges aspiring marketers…

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Marketers seek career opportunities fit for post-pandemic future

Stuart Mitchell

New research conducted at the end of last year by recruitment firm Hays alongside the Chartered Institute of Marketing, has provided new insights into marketers’ views towards the workplace and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research finds that six in 10 marketers (60%) plan to change jobs within the year, with 38% anticipating they would make the move before May 2021. Appetite that is mirrored by industry demand, with 67% of marketing employers planning to hire in 2021. The data suggests that marketers’ expectations have changed; seeking roles…

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New research uncovers marketers’ views on the modern workplace

Stuart Mitchell

A survey conducted by recruitment firm Hays alongside the Chartered Institute of Marketing, has provided new insights into marketers’ views towards the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research finds that the vast majority of marketers are enjoying remote working and plan to request to continue working flexibly once it’s possible to return to the office full time. 55% say that they will request to continue working remotely Only one in five say they either won’t request flexible working (14%) or say it’s not possible because of their job (5%)…

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Half of marketers have suffered 100 days without wellbeing support from their employers

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Hays issued a warning to its members and the wider marketing community to consider the wellbeing of employees working from home. The call comes in response to research from recruiting experts Hays that shows half (47%) of employers had failed to provide any form of wellbeing support to marketing teams since lockdown began 100 days ago.  The consequences of social isolation and enforced absence from the office have had a severe impact on the mental well-being of marketers. A quarter (25%) of those…

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