9 Dec 2008
Recruitment blues?
The last two or three weeks have seen a flurry of news stories about redundancies in the digital agency world. After years of 30-40% growth this is undoubtedly a chill wind in the industry.
When the going gets tough… the recruitment ‘consultants’ get on the phone, and email, and phone, and etc.
So the volume of email and phone calls from ‘placement’ ‘experts’ (sorry if my quotation marks make me sound a bit jaded, but I am) has leapt upwards with each piece of grim news. And judging from the agents’ approaches, it seems - unsurprisingly - as if trade press coverage is lagging the tough reality.
As far as Harvest Digital Ltd is concerned, we are (in the general atmosphere of uncertainty) more than a little reluctant to pay recruitment fees of ~20% to get people through the door.
So here’s some advice to all you newly out-of-work digital specialist looking for employment (and Harvest IS still hiring); go after the companies you want to work for, and go DIRECT. The commercial argument for the employer is a big part of this of course, but any candidate who shows some initiative, by tracking down her or his next employer of choice (or at least by pretending they are the chosen employer) will have a double advantage.
I’ll sit back and wait for the CVs to roll in… jobs@harvestdigital.com
