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Tick boss says digital manager recruitment rising in Scotland

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 23, 2010 | 3 min read

Edinburgh-based recruitment specialist Tick Recruitment has told The Drum that the Scottish creative sector is seeing an upturn in the recruitment of manager level staff with digital experience.

Richard Greenwood, managing director of Tick Recruitment said that his company had witnessed an increase in demand for account managers and directors across the Scottish digital sector.

He said that the same was also true across the design, branding and advertising sectors, a trend he believes will continue into 2011 as creative agencies focus more on their digital offering.

“Over the last six months we have seen a 50% increase in demand month on month for quality account managers and directors with sound digital experience as agencies increasingly push their digital capabilities as well as the more traditional creative offerings,” explained Greenwood.

“All signs suggest that this upsurge will continue, promising a more buoyant creative sector across Edinburgh and Glasgow going into next year.”

Research published by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks found that the creative sector is leading the upturn in recruitment, with two thirds of companies in the sector looking to expand, and that 56 percent of Scottish businesses planned to increase their workforce in the coming year, with a third looking to take on manager level staff.

Greenwood said that he believe that this would bode well for job-seekers as agencies would compete to recruit the highest quality of candidate with valuable digital experience.

“Now candidates have more choice and it is not unusual for our most talented candidates to have four or five opportunities to choose from at any one time,” he continued.

“We are fortunate to be able to offer our clients a large pool of skilled candidates due to our vast network of contacts within the creative sector so we are confident in our ability to provide the right candidate for the right role throughout this upturn.”

Greenwood also revealed that in the last six months, Tick had saved its clients recruitment feeds of over £120,000 through offering a transparent flat fee online recruitment service.

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