After graduating from the University of Sussex with a Sociology degree, I was at a bit of a loss. I knew I wanted to do something vaguely related to media and had a personal interest in health but that was it! I loved reading women’s magazines and thought it would be great to have a job where I got to do that all day. As luck would have it, Pegasus PR was recruiting, and as a bonus, the role did involve reading every women’s magazine on the market. I absolutely loved working in PR and my clients ranged from health supplements to beauty products and medical devices. After several years, I decided I wanted to use my skills in the charity sector and made the move to London to join Breast Cancer Care. This meant I still got to use my media relations skills to sell fundraising products and talk to journalists all day, but it also meant I got to help tell the stories of courageous women who had won and sadly sometimes lost their battles with cancer. After a couple of years, I realised there was no way for me to move up, and I began to look for my next move.

It was at this point I had my first introduction to recruitment agencies. I quickly realised there were good ones and bad ones. More specifically, agencies that took the time to understand who I was and what I was looking for, and ones who acted as a CV/job spec sender, emailing irrelevant job descriptions to hundreds of candidates at once and not communicating with me about roles I expressed an interest in.

VMA GROUP definitely fell into the ‘good’ category, and I quickly built up a rela