Seasons Greetings from Yellow Cat Recruitment!

Hello followers of the Yellow Cat and Happy Christmas! How are you all? It’s Adam from the Perm team here, writing my first and last blog entry of 2008. It’s been a rollercoaster year (considering I started it working for a TV Post Production company in Soho!) but I am happy to say that my six months in recruitment have been absolutely brilliant and I am extremely happy to be a part of the Yellow Cat crew.

I look after the permanent side of Yellow Cat Recruitment and endeavour to fill the best media jobs in London with the best candidates in the country. With my history in TV, I tend to specialise in Production and Post Production roles but I have also built up a strong knowledge of Marketing, Advertising and PR. These are sectors that I have developed a real interest in and I often find myself catching up on the latest industry news through Campaign or Marketing Week. I am always on the lookout for enthusiastic and proactive candidates with experience in any of these areas. Email me if you fit the bill!

One of the things I have tried to do since I have been with Yellow Cat is improve our online presence by using various social networking techniques. We are all aware of Facebook and MySpace but not many of us use other online forms such as blogging or Twitter. Obviously you are reading our blog now but if you haven’t tried Twitter you should give it a go. It is basically a micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets). People such as Stephen Fry, Shaquille O’Neil and Andy Murray use it regularly and now Yellow Cat Recruitment can be added to that list! We will ‘tweet’ whenever we take on a new job so it is well worth following us if you want to be the first in line to apply!

As well as social networking I also help out with a lot of graphic design within Yellow Cat. I studied graphics at college and often do design in my spare time so have tried to get involved as much as I can. I like to think that my creative side helps me when recruiting, especially when working on roles for creative companies.

Anyway, that’s enough about me - I expect you may want to know about what’s going down at Yellow Cat HQ! I will talk about current vacancies shortly but the big news from Charlotte St is the new look Yellow Cat Recruitment office. Those of you who have been to visit us will know that we used to all sit closely in one room and use next door for interviews. We recently decided to knock down the central wall in favour of an open plan style office. We now have plenty more room and as a result the office feels less cluttered. Maybe we’ll get some photos up on here soon!

On the job front Yellow Cat are doing very well.  We were expecting to be quiet considering the time of year and the ‘current climate’ (how often do you hear that phrase these days?!) but we are actually very busy.

We are currently working on a number of permanent roles including our current Job Of The Week - Account Manager for an Experiential Marketing Agency. Om is also very busy on the temp side as many of our clients prepare for the Christmas period by getting temporary staff booked in. We are still welcoming any CVs of candidates who are available to work over the holidays. If you are free and happy to work throughout the Christmas Period (excluding Christmas Day and New Years Day) then email Om now!

I think that’s all the news we have for you at the moment so all that is left for me to do is wish you all a very Merry Christmas on behalf of the Yellow Cat Recruitment team. Bring on 2009!!