VMAGROUP will be hosting Institute of Internal Communications's 'FutureNet: The Trailblazers' event on Thursday 31st January from 6pm. Have you ever wished you could get an insight into an award winning piece of work to help shape your thinking and your award submissions? Come and join FutureNet on 31 January as we hear from Jacqueline Ryan, Internal Communications & Emp...

This interview first appeared in CEO Today Magazine, November 2018 Edition. Julia Meighan is Chair at VMAGROUP. Founded more than 40 years ago, VMAGROUP is an international interim and permanent recruitment and executive search specialist for communications, digital and marketing. With 35 consultants, they operate from hubs in the UK, continental Europe and Asia, and work wi...

VMAGROUP is hosting CIPR Inside's Christmas drinks on Wednesday 5th December, 2018 at 6pm in London.  CIPR Inside is the specialist group of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations for internal communication and employee engagement professionals.  This event is for CIPR Inside members only.  For more information please contact +44 20 7631 6900.

Head of VMAGROUP - Germany, Maaike Schröder, will be speaking about the changing nature of the communications function at this year’s Corporate Communications Conference in Athens on Thursday 6th December, 2018. About Maaike Maaike heads up the German speaking market at VMAGROUP, an international interim and permanent recruitment and executive search specialist for com...

International recruitment and executive search specialist for communications, digital and marketing, VMAGROUP, was awarded the coveted Marketing & Comms Specialist Team Award at the 2018 Marketing & Digital Recruitment Awards (MDRA) last Thursday 22nd November. In its 8th and biggest year yet, the awards evening honoured excellence amongst UK recruitment firms wit...

When I worked in TV advertising, an important aspect of providing a 360 service involved delivering timely, tailored ‘calls to action’ with clients in order to win their future business. All the award winning work delivering advertising campaigns across TV and digital was pursued with vigour, yet there was a sense that more could be done. This is often the case in ambitious ...

In partnership with AB Communications, we are holding an event 'AB Acid Test – Aligning internal comms to business strategy' on Tuesday 14th November 2018 at 8am in London.   At this breakfast event, AB Acid Test’s co-creator and AB’s managing director, Katie Macaulay, will reveal the secrets of this unique audit tool and guide you through the five most common problems...

Leading international recruitment and executive search specialist, VMAGROUP, has expanded its Internal Communications practice with the hire of Consultant Crystle Pearce. Crystle has over 7 years’ experience in recruitment, having developed her career in both South Africa and the UK.  She has extensive experience of working across the full life-cycle of recruitment and su...

The IoIC is holding a networking event for junior internal communications professionals on Thursday 25 October, 2018 at 6pm in London. You will hear from two communications professionals on how to get to the level in your career.  

Greater empathy; a lasting and provoking message; emotional responses up by 25% and engagement levels increased by 2-3 times. This was just some of the powerful content shared at our most recent event hosted at Digital Catapult on the Power of Immersive Media in Communications.What is immersive media?Immersion is ultimately when you forget the message entirely, forget you ar...

Immersive media will quickly become a key method of communication both internally and externally for communications professionals. This breakfast session held on Tuesday 23 October, 2018 at 8am in London is designed to inspire and prepare senior level communicators for the future.  

We are looking for new recruiters in the communications, digital or marketing fields. Find out about what career opportunities we have available at our recruitment event on Thursday 18 October, 2018 at 8am in London HQ. Learn more about working for VMAGROUP.​ If you are interested in the event or for further information, please contact Lucy Cairncross.

Bridging the Gap focuses solely on the UK interim communications and marketing market. Survey responses from over 250 UK-based interims working in communications and marketing across all industries are reported, along with key topics of interest, including IR35 (the latest regulation to affect the interim market), globalisation in marketing, the changing nat...

Leading international recruitment and executive search specialist, VMAGROUP, continues to grow its Interim recruitment practice with the hire of Principal Consultant Leila McCausland. Leila has over 8 years’ experience in recruitment, having built and developed commercially successful relationships with a range of corporates, trade associations and higher education instit...

I started working within the marketing recruitment industry six months ago. Having previously enjoyed working in the fast-paced, flashy TV advertising industry for 8 years, it felt intuitive to learn about the challenges businesses face with attracting the best marketing talent to anchor visionary strategies in order to compete in today’s more affluent but attention-poor wor...

Written by Natasha Ebdon, Consultant - Internal Communications After I graduated from the University of Leeds in 2011, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do long-term, but I knew I wanted something people-facing and I was keen to use my language skills – my degree was in French and Italian. I discovered recruitment agencies at this point and sent my CV far and wide, finding a...

VMAGROUP’s Advisory Board is a great place for communications leaders to get together and ‘think tank’ ideas, discuss challenges, discover new trends, debate hot topics and generally let off a bit of steam with their peers in a safe environment. In case you were wondering, these Boards (also run out of the UK and the Netherlands) were established by the VMAGROUP leadershi...

Written by Deborah Le, Principal Consultant - Interim internal and Change Communications Following my post last month, I’m pleased to share part 2 of my Building Communications blog. As consultants from VMA’s Internal Communications Practice, Kristy Carmichael and I met several communications specialists from the construction, property and outsourcing sectors to discus...

I recently caught up with Sophie Moore, an internal communications professional, on her first few months at SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins, as well as her first experience in a merger and acquisition environment. It’s also interesting to hear from someone who has chosen IC as a profession, rather than falling into it as is normally the case! What does your role involve day-to-da...

Written by Andrew Harvey, UK Managing Director at VMAGROUP This article first appeared on IoIC's The Voice online. When recruiting for a role, employers now place greater importance on candidates’ skills, attitude and aptitude. From our Inside Insight studies, we know that over 80 per cent of IC professionals believe IC experience in the same industry is not required w...