VMA GROUP has been a recruitment partner for the communications industry for over 40 years; specialising in corporate communications and consumer communications across all industry sectors.  

In the last 10 years, VMA GROUP has reached further into marketing and digital recruitment and in that time so many challenges have been faced; recessions have been navigated, downturns swerved, and technology has advanced and changed everything.

The team at VMA GROUP speak to hundreds of communications and marketing professionals every week across the UK and Europe. This gives us a unique insight into the state of the communications and marketing professions, the teams, their day to day demands, long term challenges, strategic objectives and future hopes.

It’s a unique role that we hold, providing a service to many clients. We advise and support professionals throughout their careers, engaging with the industries we serve and understanding their organisation’s long-term strategic goals and building the teams they need to help facilitate their success.

Over the last 6 months corporate communications and marketing recruitment has been hit hard by the pandemic. Understandably, the shock of Covid-19, and the impact on businesses across the world has meant that recruitment has taken a back seat. Hiring freezes have been implemented, headcount reductions and cost control have sadly been a requirement for many businesses. Organisations have, quite rightly, pivoted towards communicating internally with a degree of honesty and transparency that will hopefully remain after the threat of Covid-19 leaves.  

The impact of these freezes and reductions are certainly showing, particularly within communications. We know that communications teams are still under a huge amount of pressure to deliver on the strategies and projects planned at the start of t