AI Magazine Issue 2 2017

40 Acquisition International - February 2017 Simon Lewis of Only Marketing Jobs talks to us about the firm and what effect winning a Global Excellence Award for the Recruitment sector has had. nlyMarketingJobs.com is a multi-winning recruitment advertising platform specific to the marketing, digital and creative sector. The firm also manage the UK’s largest community of marketing professionals, enabling it to produce industry-specific events and networking programmes. Lewis tells us more about the firm, its inception and its client base. “We began trading in January 2009 and are now based on London Bridge, in offices overlooking the Thames, St Pauls and Tower Bridge. “Our customers are from three key areas: recruitment consultancies; direct employers; and media agencies. Demographically, they cover the breadth of the UK, Europe and Middle East. Almost all our customers have strong brands and are fiercely protective of their position within the industry and the sectors in which they operate. This means recruitment marketing is playing an increasingly prevalent role in their day-to-day strategies, highlighting the shift in change from bygone days.” Lewis continues to explain to us that recruitment agencies are playing an increasingly prominent role in the hiring process, for both job-seekers and firms. “Adaptive recruitment agencies dedicated to understanding the needs and solutions of changing environments play a crucial role in their customers’ hiring strategies. Switching out of a perceived ‘cost- centre’ and into the role of recruitment ‘partner’ has allowed the intuitive recruiter to not only justify their services, but make them indispensable. It’s amazing to see the prominence of recruitment agencies in an era where technological noise reverberates like a recurring record.” The business is clearly succeeding in terms of innovation and outstanding levels of client satisfaction, as Lewis explains further: “We’ve been winning awards for innovation since 2010, having consistently sought to bring new products, services and ideas to not just our own niche sector, but the generic recruitment industry too. For us, perhaps the most compelling award-win – and certainly one that set our scene – came in 2011 when we scooped the Innovative Online Recruitment Award at the OnRecs. Company: Only Marketing Jobs Name: Simon Lewis Email: simon@ onlymarketingjobs.com Web: www.onlymarketingjobs.com Address: 5th Floor, 2 London Bridge London SE1 9RA Phone: 07957 637079 Building a Strong TeamSpirit O 1702AI94 Building a Strong Team Spirit “Since then we’ve run various bespoke and sustained campaigns to underpin our commitment to outstanding customer delivery. Working in the marketing sector comes with a responsibility to demonstrate innovation, instinct and individualism. Amidst our testimonials sits one I feel defines the more transactional aspect of what we do: ‘Time- saving, cost-effective and delivers a high calibre of candidates. This is a career website of true quality.’” Recently, the firm won an award an award in the Global Excellence Awards 2016. Lewis tells us what this award means for the firm. “Quite simply, it feels fantastic! We’ve been lucky enough to win many industry awards during our time but the Ones to Watch in Recruitment accentuates our 2017 strategy to diversify and deliver new initiatives to our sector. “Personally, this award vindicates my decision to take OMJ into unchartered waters as we attempt to break new ground in a legacy-laden industry. The team are thrilled to be recognised for their efforts in helping to remould not only our own brand, but those associated with us.” It is with the dedicated team’s help that this award was made possible. “Our business IS the team,” states Lewis. “We are extraordinarily lucky that our combined creativity affords the opportunity not only to try new things but bring them to conception with rarely any hurdles. Our overall proposition is underpinned by content and social engagement, so building a strong team spirit is essential and it’s so far so good.” With regards to the future, Lewis sees big things for the OnlyMarketingJobs.com. “We hope to add even more value to our customers, whilst continuing to drive innovation and change within our industry. We’re also creating something that will shake everything right up. But I can’t say much about that now. “The biggest collective challenge for our sector is identifying the digital talent upon which our nation, and indeed the wider global economy, is reliant. There is a huge skill shortage right now.”