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Friday, March 28, 2014

Graduate Recruitment Consultant



Chrysalis is a well established, boutique recruitment consultancy. With a HQ in Central Manchester and a satellite office in Covent Garden, we focus on delivery across digital marketing for global Media Agencies and Online Brands. We are split into 2 distinct areas – one is the account management of expanding enterprises or multinationals while the other is delivering against one-off specialist roles. We are a small team currently, focussed on providing an outstanding service to clients and candidates alike which means our Consultants bill big figures and reap the financial rewards of providing a first class solution.


Role:

You will be working on our London team – based out of Manchester but with travel to London every 2 weeks. Joining a very successful and established desk, you will inherit a great deal of residual business plus be responsible for developing further business opportunities. This role is approx 70% Delivery and Account Management with 30% new business generation. Ideally we are looking for someone with the potential to become a full-time Account Manager within 12 months, to handle existing accounts while potentially building a team to deliver for those accounts. You will be working within Digital Marketing, handling the recruitment needs of SME’s and global Digital Agencies.


As a Recruitment Consultant you will have full responsibility for:
  • Developing new business opportunities for the team 
  • Qualifying jobs 
  • Filling jobs (either personally or with a Resource Consultant) 
  • Relationship management 
  • Developing business within client teams we are yet to forge relationships with 
  • In time, the building of a team to support the level of business being generated 
  • Regular, on-site client contact 


Requirements: 
  • You will be able to interface with clients in a professional and appropriate manner 
  • Either you have worked in Digital Marketing Recruitment or you will have a keen interest in it 
  • ideally some sales or telesales experience 
  • an interest and active participation in social media/ networking 
  • a need to work in a target driven environment 
  • first rate communication skills 

Salary:
Basic – based on experience (expected OTE: £40,000 in year 1)

Call 0161 833 3874 or email info@chrysalisrecruitment.com for more information




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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Why wearable tech needs to become fashionable tech
The next frontier for consumer electronics could well be the market of wearable technology. Giants such as Google, Sony and Samsung are relentlessly pursuing a future of interaction, where time-honoured accessories such as glasses and watches are upgraded into hyper-connected devices in the increasingly pervasive ‘internet of things'. Apple are shuffling their feet and smiling coyly, but their promises of big things to come are likely to involve the wearable market.

As smartphones reach an inevitable plateau in mature markets and the average consumer is reluctant to pay over £500 for a marginally better camera and shinier shiny bits, there is a clear need to create a new mass market of appeal within technology. Which means wearable technology as it seeks the love of the masses will find itself hearing the same question again and again:

… But does it look good?

Google's current support for prescription glasses comes solely from in-house designs
(credit: TNW)
Up until now the answer would have been uncertain, if you’re kind, and tinged with negativity, but now Google has grabbed the reins and brought in Ray-Ban and Oakley (owned by Italian brand Luxottica) to dramatically upgrade the look of its Glass units.

Google have also announced Android Wear, a stable platform, an API which the whole network of differently-branded products can be built upon, allowing potentially a variety of design flourishes and differing directions. Rather than buying into a technophile dream of a connected-world, through imperfect experimental devices (like early Glass explorers, perhaps), they’re buying the same thing they always have: a really nice looking watch.

The recently announced moto 360, powered by Android Wear
(credit: Techradar)
The near future could present a much more augmented experience than just glasses and watches though, already Google has created internet-connected contact lenses that measure glucose levels for diabetics. In fact the mystery, importance and sheer sci-fi appeal, of where Google is going next is worth its CEO, Larry Page, giving a talk on the topic to TED. The impact of wearable technology is hard to estimate, but if it did reach widespread adoption all of the established structure of the World Wide Web, advertising and even personal health could need to be re-written.

 More than ever the world will be at your fingertips or hovering a few centimeters from your eyeball. A whole world of new opportunities, tasks made easier and information increasingly personalised and delivered at exactly the right moment. It's an exciting prospect.

 So it comes back to the shallow but fundamental question we may each find ourselves asking, not just as a boardroom consideration at Google, but the final thought before we put our own hands into our wallets and purses: but does it look good enough to wear?
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Now Hiring: Junior Recruitment Consultant


Chrysalis is a well established, boutique recruitment consultancy. With a HQ in Central Manchester and a satellite office in Covent Garden, we focus on delivery across digital marketing for global Media Agencies and Online Brands. We are split into 2 distinct areas – one is the account management of expanding enterprises or multinationals while the other is delivering against one-off specialist roles. We are a small team currently, focussed on providing an outstanding service to clients and candidates alike which means our Consultants bill big figures and reap the financial rewards of providing a first class solution.

Role:
You will be working on our London team – based out of Manchester but with travel to London every 2 weeks. Joining a very successful and established desk, you will inherit a great deal of residual business plus be responsible for developing further business opportunities. This role is approx 70% Delivery and Account Management with 30% new business generation. Ideally we are looking for someone with the potential to become a full-time Account Manager within 12 months, to handle existing accounts while potentially building a team to deliver for those accounts. You will be working within Digital Marketing, handling the recruitment needs of SME’s and global Digital Agencies.

 As a Recruitment Consultant you will have full responsibility for:

  • Developing new business opportunities for the team
  • Qualifying jobs
  • Filling jobs (either personally or with a Resource Consultant)
  • Relationship management
  • Developing business within client teams we are yet to forge relationships with
  • In time, the building of a team to support the level of business being generated
  • Regular, on-site client contact

 Requirements:

  • You will have worked in an Agency as a Recruitment Consultant for 6 months minimum
  • You will have already proven to be a successful biller through good client and candidate management
  • You will be able to interface with clients in a professional and appropriate manner
  • Either you have worked in Digital Marketing Recruitment or you will have a keen interest in it
  • You may be a Recruitment Consultant looking to gradually move into a Account Management role
Salary:
Basic – based on experience (expected OTE: £40,000 in year 1)

 Call 0161 833 3874 or email info@chrysalisrecruitment.com for more information


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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Counter Offers; Why They Happen.
What is a counter offer and why do they happen?

·         A counter offer is a situation in which you resign and you are offered more money/ another role/ another job title/ a promotion.

·         They happen because it’s cheaper to offer financial incentives to an employee rather than hire someone new. On average, it costs approx £7,000 to refill a role (recruitment costs, cost of time put into interviewing, etc).


Three reasons you could be made a counter offer

·         When a person leaves, it can disrupt and destabilise the team and it can affect the team morale, so the employer may be panicked into making a counter offer.

·         Often someone leaving prompts someone else to leave, which creates an extra £7,000 of problem for the company.

·         A good employee leaving can have an impact on the company’s relationships with their clients if the employee had a direct involvement with them.
Don't walk back into an office you don't feel at home in.

Questions you should ask yourself before taking a counter offer….

·         Often it is a knee-jerk reaction to a situation of panic. We should want to gain progression due to it being deserved, not because we have forced the issue. Is this what you deserve and is this really what you want?

·         Where has this change in role suddenly come from? If it didn’t exist before does it really exist now, or is it just a token gesture to make you stay?

·         Statistics show that the initial pay-rise offered to “keep” you often results in a salary plateaux for the following 18 months on average, financially is staying the right option in the long term?

·         If you were the one who showed a willingness to leave the company, will you be first out of the door if the company hits troubled times and need to make cuts?


How to resign

·         Make your mind up, be certain and resolute, and stick to your decision.

·         Write a resignation letter, keep it as positive as possible and avoid going into a tirade against your employer.

·         Prepare a polite, informative but concise explanation of your pending departure. The more rehearsed this is, the better it will be received.

·         Thank the manager for the opportunity in the first place, don’t forget this is the first they’re hearing of your decision to leave and don’t take their reaction personally.

·         Do not engage with talk of possible role changes, avoid being led into a counter offer.

·         Ask for a leaving date to be confirmed within the day so you are able to prepare for your next role.
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Video ads hit Facebook, Zuckerberg calls Obama and Instagram signs its first ad deal
With a sense of inevitability Facebook has finally announced that premium video adverts are coming to the platform for a ‘select’ band of advertisers. Users will be presented with a 15 second clip, on mute, that can be scrolled past to ignore or enlarged to add sound. In a web environment that is dominated by high-intensity ads with increasingly intrusive tactics Facebook’s proposals seem relatively unobtrusive and likely won’t have you losing too much time between all the heart-wrenching viral videos and pictures of cats. Interestingly the ads will be bought and measured in the way TV ads are, rather than adopting a new basis for the platform.

Here come the videos! 
(credit: cnet)


Meanwhile Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerburg is making phone calls to the most powerful man on the planet, American president Barack Obama. Zuckerberg argued the American government should be presenting the internet as one of its greatest assets, rather than existing as its greatest threat. As he explained “I've been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the US government. When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government. The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst. I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true full reform.”
Wrapping up the story for all things big under the Facebook banner, is that its 715 million dollar purchase, Instagram has signed its first ad deal. Starting as they mean to go on Instagram have agreed a contract with the not inconsiderable might of Omnicon. The recent $100 million deal has already attracted some positive discussion, with Forbes offering these four reasons for the ad deal being a promising one. Instagram has, perhaps wisely, chosen the Twitter route of having ad content fit in just as a regular tweet would in a stream that remains largely coherent.
All these events against the backdrop of a booming stock and a muted deviation from their “move fast and break stuff” mantra makes for blue skies over the land of Facebook. It seems as Facebook is maturing, it’s growing its advertising options sympathetically for both the users and the agencies.
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