Tag: marcomms

Guest Post: It’s time to eradicate the negative stigma of dyslexia in the marcomms industry

Stuart Mitchell

Madeleine Weightman, Co-Founder of the platform for marketing and comms freelancers, The Work Crowd which has launched a diversity board with Hanson Search, explains her family’s experience with dyslexia and provides practical tips for agencies to avoid discriminating against people living with it. I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was about 13 and my sister Alice got the diagnosis at around 11 years of age. At the time, it wasn’t the school that picked it up, but our mother. Both of us always struggled at school and were in…

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New research reveals COVID-19 disproportionately impacts BAME marcomms career prospects and threatens to widen pay gap further

Stuart Mitchell

New research released by networking group People Like Us has revealed that BAME marcomms professionals are under both a greater financial and emotional strain than the rest of the industry. They are having to take deeper pay cuts than average (+18%), which could threaten to widen the pay gap that already stands at 20% in London where the majority of professionals are based; and are lacking confidence in their employers, the media, and future career prospects. BAME marcomms professionals did, however, indicate that they feel more supported by each other and…

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