Hello. We’re The Marketists. A Marketing Recruitment Agency With A Twist
Businesses want marketers that are worth their salt, and stay around long enough to develop their businesses. That’s what we offer. We’re marketers by trade, finding, screening, and placing the best marketing candidates in your business.
What's The Twist?
We're marketers first
Before we were recruiters, we worked in the marketing industry. Been there, done that. We know marketing jobs better than most, so we’re best placed to find and attract the right kinds of candidates.
We market your roles
Dry, uninspiring role descriptions on the same old job boards? No thanks. We’ll build a marketing strategy for each of your roles as we would for a campaign, with your goals, target audience and employer brand in mind.
Job ads, not descriptions
Job descriptions outline responsibilities. Our job adverts tell a story. We’ll paint a picture of your business that the best candidates can’t ignore and take them on a journey with our ads that lead straight to your doorstep.
Employer brand focus
Why should candidates want to work for you? Your employment brand has the answers. Once we’ve defined your unique value proposition as an employer, we’ll put this at the heart of every job ad we write.
No resume slinging
Slinging out CVs for every candidate on our list? We’re better than that. Our retained recruitment approach means we work as your partner in crime to deliver candidates perfect for your company. Less admin and better retention – Who can argue with that?
Supporting marginalised women
Your hiring success has a widespread impact. For every candidate we place, we will able to support women to enter the workforce through employment charity Smart Works Leeds, helping with funding, volunteering and access to our network of opportunities.
Sick of sifting through unqualified candidates? We get it.
That’s why we’re taking a different approach.
Are you ready to up your recruitment game with hires that tick all the right boxes?
Our Process
We start on a retained model
We’re not a fan of the contingency recruitment approach. It breeds speed over quality and leaves candidates feeling unloved. You end up overwhelmed with unsuitable options, having to sift through the pile yourself or choose an employee who won’t be the right fit.
To put it bluntly, we think the contingency model is crap.
So let’s leave that crap where it belongs and aim for the best hiring process possible.
- We start with you, understanding your business, your culture, and what makes a successful hire.
- We help to improve your employment brand, so you’re less reliant on us in the future.
- We use our marketing experience to promote your roles differently with bespoke, stand-out job adverts.
- We work with you as a partner, developing interview and onboarding processes that stand out.
- We only send you screened, qualified and talented candidates.
Then, we move onto...
Business & Role Deep Dive
A good marketer needs to understand their product and audience. So we dig deep into what makes your company unique to uncover the kinds of people that thrive there and the nitty-gritty of what they do.
Employer Brand Audit
Your employer brand determines the success of your recruitment efforts. We’ll give it a health check and highlight where your brand could use some TLC to boost your prospects in the competition for candidate attention.
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Next, we start creating
Develop Ads and Messaging
Recruitment is what we do best, but marketing is what we know. We’ll put our skills to good use and create outstanding content promoting your jobs and portraying your brand, all tailored to target your ideal candidates.
Embed EB Quick Wins
Using the results of our audit, we put together an action plan for your employment brand that starts delivering results right off the bat. Long-term improvements are in the pipeline, but we give you something to shout about immediately as well.
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To market we go...
Candidate Discovery
Our search for the perfect candidate goes far beyond the usual channels. Combining our network of professionals with expert industry insight and an outside-the-box approach to sourcing, we’ll find potential applicants in places your competitors wouldn’t even think to look.
Candidate Attraction
The days of chasing candidates and begging for their consideration are over. We start the attraction process with you, curating an employer image and crafting messages that catch your ideal employees’ eyes. Once we’ve got their attention, our personalised outreach uses a range of tactics to ensure each candidate is ready and eager to meet you.
In-Depth Pre-Screening
You’ve got better things to do with your time than weeding out unsuitable applications. We design a personalised screening process and vet your candidates for you, so you’re left to choose from the best of the best.
Candidate Delivery
Only the best candidates on the market get handed over to your business, each one screened with both role and company culture in mind. You receive a carefully curated shortlist with our notes, and you decide who to take to the next stage.
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We'll hand-hold you through this next bit...
Interview, Offer, Onboarding
Our parents raised us properly, so we won’t leave you standing out in the cold once we’ve found you a potential employee. We’ll be there to hold your hand from the first interview to the final stage of onboarding, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal disruption.
- Superior Candidate Experience.
- Top Quality Hires.
- Better Retention. Better Results.
Better Candidate Experience.
Higher Quality Candidates.
Better Retention. Better Results.
What Are Our Services?
Marketing Recruitment
We take years of experience in the marketing industry, add an innovative understanding of recruitment, and deliver talented candidates to companies seeking to grow their business better. And we do it all with a proper understanding of what your business needs.
Think of us as one of the team.
Executive Search
For companies looking to fill a role on an executive level, a typical hiring process just isn’t enough. We take our tried and tested approach and add a few more layers of screening tailored to senior positions that require the highest calibre of candidates.
You access the best in the business.
Employer Branding
Our employer branding services give your business a facelift that’ll help to catch the eye of your ideal candidates and make your business a sought-after employer.
We’ll polish up your PR, revamp your careers page, and showcase employee experiences that candidates can’t wait to get in on.
Candidate Experience
We’re not happy with ‘good enough’ and neither should you be.
Candidate experience plays a huge part in recruitment success, so we’ll study your existing process and help to make improvements that ensure retention rates stay high from the initial application to the final interview.
Employee Engagement
Recruitment doesn’t end when a candidate gets hired – employee experience determines whether they sink or swim.
Engagement is an essential part of this, which is why we help businesses measure and improve how engaged their teams are so employees act as advocates for the organisation.
Travel Recruitment
We understand what travel businesses need to do to succeed in marketing and the type of people in those businesses that make things happen.
We combine our travel marketing expertise, with our recruitment skills to become the perfect partner for Travel businesses looking to grow and expand successfully.
Learn From Our Experience
The Most Common Buzzwords Used In Marketing Job Adverts
The Benefits of Psychometric Testing for Marketing Hires
Why Your Marketing Job Descriptions Don’t Attract the Best Talent
Our Mission to Give Back
Here’s our promise to give back to marginalised women. Let’s break the cycle. Here’s to making societal change.
Progress doesn’t happen overnight. So we’re on a mission to make societal change.
We believe that every business can and should be a power for good. This is why we work with Smart Works Leeds to empower all women who need help getting into work.
From funding and volunteering to CV and interview help, we want to help give every job candidate the tools they need to thrive, no matter their circumstances. All of this is powered by the work we do with clients.
For every placement we make, we’ll be able to support even more women to secure the job they’ve always wanted.
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