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Marketers are experts in the importance of branding. So why do so many marketers and marketing agencies struggle with their employer brand? In a tough job ma...

Step into the future of marketing with us as we explore the next-generation skills shaping the way marketing campaigns are designed and run and how you can r...

Good digital talent has always been challenging to recruit for, irrespective of the sector. Yet, with the demands currently being placed on charities, attrac...

Welcome to our June Marketing Digest - where we pick out some of our favourite marketing campaigns we've seen! Check out what we loved this month...

Welcome to our May Marketing Digest - where we pick out some of our favourite marketing campaigns we've seen!   Check out what we loved this m...

Hiring top talent as a budding startup can be difficult. Recruiting the best and brightest to work at your growing company is highly competitive. Whether...

When a company hires an external recruitment agency to handle a role, a good recruiter almost becomes part of that company for the duration of the recruitmen...

Revolutionising Research: Stopgap Teams Up with Top-Tier Global Agency to Deliver Contract Research Managers   When a Top-Tier Global Agency ...

Did you know, there are 12 Brand Archetypes?   We’re taking a deep dive into what it means to have a brand archetype, and how this can devel...

Welcome to our March Marketing Digest - where we pick out some of our favourite marketing campaigns we've seen over the course of the month!   ...

Is it just us?  We’re struggling to find the Halloween hype this year. Could this be due to budgets? Looking ahead to Christmas? Or maybe no-...

If there's one thing I've heard from freelancers recently, it's this: "This contract is great and the people are lovely but a quick inductio...

Welcome to this month's Agency Digest, a monthly look at the world of Creative & Marketing Agencies from us, the dedicated Agency Talent Team at...

As part of #JobFest, we're interviewing our consultants about what their industry sectors are like at the moment. This week, our Principal Consultants Ja...

As part of #JobFest, we're interviewing our consultants about what their industry sectors are like at the moment. This week, our Principal Consultant Kat...

Welcome to this month’s Agency Digest – we’re looking at how brands reacted to the Lionesses victory, and what this means for the mark...

As part of #JobFest, we're interviewing our consultants about what their industry sectors are like at the moment. This week, our Lead Consultant for ...

As part of #JobFest, we're interviewing our consultants about what their industry sectors are like at the moment. This week, one of our B2C speciali...

As part of #JobFest, we're interviewing our consultants about what their industry sectors are like at the moment. This week, our Property/Proptech expert...

Welcome to this month’s Agency Digest – we’ve picked out our favourite recent ads and campaigns, with a few of our brilliant clients taking...

We’re not sure awards are quite what they used to be.   Pining for the days of Jarvis Cocker and Chumbawamba at The Brits. Although there wa...

This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week, a subject that has always been very important and not something we like to highlight just one week a year. W...

Welcome to the first Agency Digest, a monthly look at the world of Creative & Marketing Agencies from us, the dedicated Agency Talent Team at Stopga...

The situation in Ukraine at the moment cannot, and should not, be ignored. Millions have fled to neighbouring countries, leaving homes, family, and jobs behi...

One of the biggest impacts the pandemic had on workplaces was the move to working from home. And this has prompted a permanent change in the way we work. Lon...

You may or may not know that Stopgap isn’t just one of the leading Marketing agency recruiters in London UK, but also Australia. As well as our Lo...

Let’s face it: we’ve all had an 'unprecedented’ couple of years. Between navigating the pandemic, adjusting to altered work arr...

Arguably some of the most stressful experiences in life – Dating…and finding a job. We found that the principles of the match-making process are...

Welcome to our Marketing Digest - a series where we pick out some things we've seen from the world of marketing, creative, charity... social enterprise t...

It's been another challenging year for everyone; but one good thing that came out of us not being together at Stopgap last Christmas, was that we decided...

Welcome to our new weekly series where every Thursday we pick out some things we've seen from the world of marketing, creative, charity... social enterpr...

Welcome to our new weekly series where every Thursday we pick out some things we've seen from the world of marketing, creative, charity... social enterpr...

Welcome to our new weekly series where every Thursday we pick out some things we've seen from the world of marketing, creative, charity... social enterpr...

Welcome to our new weekly series where every Thursday we pick out some things we've seen from the world of marketing, creative, charity... social enterpr...

Since its inception back in 1993, in a borrowed office with a borrowed phone line and nothing but a will to change how recruitment was done in the world of m...

Ever wondered what a marketing executive gets up to day-to-day? Here’s my experience working in my role as Marketing Executive at Stopgap.   &n...

Welcome to our new weekly series where every Thursday we pick out some things we've seen from the world of marketing, creative, charity... social enterpr...

The traditional picture of a job seeker scouring a newspaper for the local job listings has by far become a thing of the past. And with the shock of COVID-19...

I have been contemplating writing something about mental health for a while, and my mental health at that.    With Sunday being Mental Health...

  Hiring top talent as a budding startup can be difficult. Recruiting the best and brightest to work at your growing company is highly competitiv...

The Agency world has always been an exciting place to be, and it’s busier than it’s ever been, but right now there is a real talent shortage and ...

Struggling to find the perfect marketer for your growing business? At Stopgap, we have an abundance of knowledge when it comes to hiring Marketing Managers a...

Due to recent economic changes, many companies have learnt to adapt to alternative work methods. Remote working has proven to have positive influences for bu...

One of, if not the biggest social economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the shift to working from home for many and  the&nbs...

Author: Lee Shortt is our Principal Consultant for Travel & Leisure.    With lockdown restrictions easing this week, the first fligh...

As lockdown eases there has been a lot of debate around flexible working and a return to the office.    With the government seemingly pushing f...

I don't need to trot out any of those well worn phrases about the situation we all currently find ourselves in. Times are tough, for all of us, people ar...

Every year we are proud to sponsor the Marketer of the Year category at the CIM Marketing Excellence Awards. Like so many things, the 2020 awards ceremony wa...

Employers - Our guide to onboarding freelancers remotely  Our Lead Consultant Lara Fisher - Jones is a specialist within Market Research & I...

Millions of people face uncertainly over the future of their employment. With the end of the furlough scheme on the horizon and untold damage to the economy ...

The pandemic forced organisations to focus on immediate needs for a while, as we scrambled to adapt to home-working and cope with the restrictions, pressures...

Working remotely and no longer being able to rely on the normal face-to-face cues when communicating with teammates or clients can be an uncomfortable and aw...

Video interviews are now commonplace and they can feel more nerve-wracking than a face to face meeting, but they needn’t be. We’ve collated some ...

2020 was a year like no other when it came to the way we work and how we recruit. Just about every business in every sector had to adapt to some, if not...

Kraig Smith is our Head of Creative, Digital and Tech recruitment at Stopgap and has over 20 years’ experience in this area. Over the course of th...

It is the harsh reality that more and more people are facing redundancy as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are seeing an unprecedented number of applic...

With so many qualified and skilled candidates out there, how do we ensure you find the right one?  We’ll do the hard work for you of course, ...

When I started out on my career I was told that I needed a career plan. A practical strategy that allowed me to focus my skills and interests, set goals, and...

The need for flexible and remote working was increasing over the last couple of years, but the impact of the Corona virus has accelerated that need and indee...

We have a huge amount of experience helping startups and scale-ups hire their first marketer, our Lead Consultant Sarah, talks you through some of the things...

We would like to introduce Kraig, our new Head of Digital, Technology & Creative recruitment.  You wouldn't think it looking at his fresh...

The last couple of months have been very strange, many of us in the recruitment, marketing and creative industries have had to deal with colleagues being f...

Just like so many businesses, we had to furlough some of our team at the beginning of April and our Talent Manager Claudine took the opportunity to exp...

With the lockdown beginning to ease over the next couple of months, industries are making plans to return to work and to the office. Despite the ease ...

We are currently experiencing an unprecedented health crisis in Covid-19. The situation is changing by the day, but the majority of us, particularly in the m...

Like many of you out there, a portion of our team at Stopgap have been temporarily "furloughed" - a term I'm sure none of us were aware of...

Craig Kent is a CRM marketing consultant with over 20 years’ experience who has worked with us as a candidate in that time. In this guest blog he discu...

After the success of our meet up event back in January with ContentUK, we linked up again with Christina at ContentUK again to host a webinar for market...

Our Marketing Manager Tom has been looking at forecasts and predictions within marketing and recruitment, and from what he has seen, he believes there are re...

Like many of you out there, a portion of our team at Stopgap have been temporarily "furloughed" - a term I'm sure none of us were aw...

We understand that things are extremely difficult for everyone at the moment, not least key workers and NHS staff, but also the self-employed and thos...

These are undoubtedly unprecedented and testing times; but the current situation doesn’t mean your marketing needs to stand still. Now more than ever y...

Every business knows it should have a plan for what to do in a crisis. But when an actual emergency strikes, many seem to be caught off guard.   ...

Not knowing what the future holds is a very scary prospect and right now we are all trying to second guess what's around the corner. I know there must ...

Everything to do with marketing is continually changing and evolving; adapting to new processes is par for the course. But what happens when that change ha...

Fundraising is at the heart of what charities do. Over the years, traditional methods of fundraising have included calendars, cake sales, coffee mornings and...

Market confidence is on the up and this has led to the first back-to-back rise in permanent positions for more than 12 months. According to the latest K...

When it comes to earning the trust of consumers, marketers have their work cut out. According to the Advertising Association’s Advertising Pays 8 ...

If you’re a marketer looking to boost your salary this year, you might want to consider a move into FMCG. According to the latest Marketing Week C...

Widely regarded as the most depressing day of the year, Blue Monday happens on the third Monday of January each year. How did you fare? Just to be clear, ...

Today’s consumers expect a lot from brands. They want convenience, quality and a personalised experience. The more brands understand and embrace cons...

It’s that time of year when brands gift consumers their biggest marketing campaigns in an effort to get us jingling all the way to checkout. This ...

Yesterday we had a first for us at Stopgap; financial education talks. I know it may sound dull and it may feel like something that is out of an emplo...

Our Clients are telling us it is getting more difficult to recruit good junior PR People. Is this because less people are entering the industry or is it...

According to a survey for the BBC, 40% of us are prepared to take a sick day because we want a break from work, even if we’re not actually ill. &nbs...

You may have heard the news recently that P&G brand Always has removed the Venus symbol from the packaging of its sanitary products to be more inclusive ...

Given the chance, all businesses want to boost email marketing click-through and click-to-open rates. And charities are no different.   Accordin...

New research has revealed that wage growth is expected to slow in the coming year.   According to data from XpertHR, pay awards have generally b...

It will come as no surprise that “people problems” are causing sleepless nights for business leaders across the UK. Attracting and retaining...

Our lead consultant in consumer brands, Christine Ebeling Long has noticed a recent trend within marketing roles, with a new job title appearing in briefs fr...

A quick trawl through the internet will soon reveal a host of cat videos and memes, but it may also uncover a host of marketing campaigns from start-ups ho...

After a certain point in your career, it can be tempting to make a move from permanent work to freelance or contract work.   You may be unsatisfie...

Today is World Mental Health Day and one in four of us will experience a work-related mental health issue in our lifetime. It can affect how we think,...

Our Lead Consultant and Partnership Manager, Christine Ebeling Long gives an overview of the current state of play in Marketing Recruitment... ...

What do we need in times of political uncertainty? According to consumer brands, the answer lies in premiumisation, as Marketing Week discusses.   ...

Where do the UK’s professionals want to work? According to the 2019 LinkedIn Top Startups list, many have set their sights on the fintech space. &nb...

Most businesses wait to get bigger. From local to regional to national to global – the world is your oyster, however humble your business’ begi...

Facebook has had a tough couple of years with the platform’s dwindling usage suggesting it is starting to decline in popularity, with privacy scand...

How long have you been working at Stopgap?    A year!    And what was your career path to becoming a recruiter - do you hav...

Companies are investing huge amounts of money into employee reward and recognition initiatives but continue to fall short of expectations, new research rev...

One of our newest consultants, Danika Lillelund is an ex marketer who decided to make the move into recruitment with us at Stopgap. It's a path that many...

Our Lead Consultant and Partnership Manager, Christine Ebeling Long gives an overview of seven places you can find your next job... These days it’s ...

How long have you been working at Stopgap?   Just over 3 years!   And what was your career path to becoming a recruiter?   ...

Losing out on the best talent can be hugely frustrating. But it can be even more damaging than that.   It is a candidate’s market and if y...

There was a time when everyone thought a job was for life. New research confirms what an outdated concept that has become. A survey by Tempo has revealed ...

Our marketing manager Tom, talks about his first 3 months at Stopgap and how it's changed his perception of the recruitment industry.   I think ...

Our Lead Consultant within consumer brands, Christine has noticed a trend in the number of roles she is working on with start-ups. She discusses the pros and...

A study by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC has revealed that affiliate marketing spend in the UK grew 15.1% from £482 in 2016 to £5...

It’s national receptionist day and here at Stopgap, we are lucky to have two of the best receptionists in the business looking after us and everyone wh...

Google ‘marketing trends for 2019’ and you’ll be inundated with results. But while social media stories, micro-influencer marketing and AI ...

This time of year’s great, isn’t it? The long (and this year, extremely sunny) Easter weekend, school holidays and May bank holidays make for p...

Even though uncertainty surrounding Brexit is still swirling, it’s comforting to know that it’s not all doom and gloom.   The Office f...

Philosophers, behaviour analysts and now technology experts, as well as marketers!   Known for having ex-marketing professionals as consultants,...

There has long been an emphasis on creating a learning culture in business. And this hard work is paying off. According to new research from personal deve...

Do celebrities add dazzle to marketing, or is the whole thing a bit of a turn-off? Stars are now recruited by marketers to feature in endorsements, peer reco...

What makes us feel fulfilled at work? A good working environment is important, along with career progression opportunities and job security. However, salar...

New research has revealed that half of the UK's workforce feel their employer does not understand them. The study by Automatic Data Processing (ADP) q...

Reaching audiences online has never been more important, as there is barely a demographic left which does not have an online community. However, the more th...

According to the experts, it’s the fourth most significant sales opportunity after Christmas, Easter and Ramadan. As someone who has had direct experie...

Consulting firm PwC has launched a recruitment programme that lets employees choose the hours they want to work. The scheme gives candidates the opportunity ...

Since its launch in 2010, Instagram has enjoyed meteoric success. Statista reports that, as of June this year, the photo sharing site hit one billion monthly...

UK bosses are risking staff burnout due to a lack of help alleviating and preventing stress in the workplace, according to new research. The 2018 UK W...

What do you look for in a role? Do you prioritise health-conscious perks like gym memberships and free fruit, or are factors such as flexible working and c...

Have your team been working lots of overtime lately? Are their weekends turning into 'workends' on a regular basis? If so, they're not alone. New...