Blogs

Written by Matthew Batten, Organisational Development Adviser at the Royal College of Nursing. This blog first appeared on All Things IC. Communications. Three words I used to fear. But after attending VMAGROUP's seminar, Moving on up: How to be more strategic in internal communications, led by Nicholas Wardle, Head of Employee Engagement and Communications at One Housing, I...

Leading international recruitment and executive search specialist, VMAGROUP, is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Harvey as Group CEO. Andrew will take over the role previously held by Julia Meighan, who moves into the position of Chair of VMAGROUP. Andrew joined VMAGROUP in 2013 and for the last two years has been UK Executive Director, responsible for the gro...

Leading international recruitment and executive search specialist, VMAGROUP, is delighted to welcome Associate Director Lisa MacMillan back to the UK following her relocation from Hong Kong. With a communications background in industry and more than 14 years recruitment and search experience in communications and marketing, Lisa now joins the company’s London team focusing o...

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 within the mar...

Written by Danielle Hanson, Consultant - Interim Marketing 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 th...

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 succes...

Written by Mark Burrett, Principal Consultant - Digital Marketing 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? Immersi...

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 instituti...

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 ro...

Written by Danielle Hanson, Consultant - Interim Marketing 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...