Media & Creative

Recruitment in the Media & Creative sector can be challenging, competing for talent with other organisations and dealing wirth economic challenges. Understanding and addressing turnover rates, drop out rates in the application process and what channels generate the best hires is vital to your hiring success.

Eploy's Media & Creative Applicant Tracking System and Talent CRM is designed to help Media & Creative companies take control of their hiring processes.

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Key Features for Media & Creative Hiring

So whether you need name-blind applications, additional workflows, or support multiple brands or business functions, you’ll find Eploy to be the most adaptable talent acquisition technology that consistently delivers the results you demand.

Building Strong Talent Pools

Cultivating a Steady Stream of Committed Creative Talent

Talent Recruitment CRM ► Foster long-term relationships with potential candidates Intelligent
Job Alerts ► Keep engaged candidates informed of opportunities
Email & SMS Marketing ► Maintain active communication, reducing time-to-fill
Talent Pools & Skills Library ► Access a ready pool of mission-driven talent
Feedback Surveys ► Continuously refine recruitment strategies

With Eploy, Media and Creative organisations can build robust talent pools, ensuring a continuous supply of dedicated professionals for various roles.

Attracting Specialised Creative Talent

Find and Engage the Best in Creative & Media with Eploy’s Advanced Tools

Talent Pools & Skills Library ► Build a reservoir of tech talent for future needs Advanced
Search & Filtering ► Precisely locate candidates with specific tech expertise
Social Media Integration ► Extend recruitment reach through social platforms
Employee Referral Programmes ► Tap into your network for quality referrals
Job Posting and Distribution ► Spread your tech job postings across multiple channels

Eploy empowers recruiters to attract top talent in a competitive Creative & Media market. By leveraging talent pools and advanced search capabilities, Eploy ensures you connect with the most qualified professionals in the creative industry, streamlining your recruitment process.

Seamless Onboarding of Creative Talent

Effortless Integration of New Hires into Your Creative & Media Team

Customisable Onboarding Processes ► Tailor onboarding experiences to tech roles
Electronic Signatures ► Speed up the completion of essential onboarding documents
Compliance Documents ► Manage necessary legal and compliance paperwork efficiently
Self-service Candidate Portal ► Enable new hires to access and manage their onboarding information
Secure Data Collection ► Ensure the protection of sensitive information for new hires

Eploy simplifies the onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition for new Creative & Media hires. Customisable onboarding, electronic signatures, and secure data collection make it easy for new team members to integrate seamlessly into your organisation.

FAQs

Yes, Eploy has a track record in the Media & Creative Sector. And because we know each business is different, our features allow for an agile approach so you can flex and evolve your recruitment process. Whether you need name-blind applications, a multilingual solution, multiple workflows, or specific requirements on your careers site for multiple brands or business functions, we understand it's your recruitment process, so we can do things your way.

Eploy integrates with HMRS, Accounts & Payroll systems as well as leading background screening & checking providers, to name a few!

With the Eploy API, you can connect the tools you use daily to our talent acquisition platform and deliver amazing experiences for everyone involved in the recruitment journey. Eploy's API enables customers and partners to build custom apps and enhancements to Eploy's Talent Acquisition platform.

We have a Partner Marketplace so you can extend your recruitment capability faster and smarter.

Eploy supports a ''name blind'' recruitment process, which allows certain candidate information (name, gender, ethnicity etc.) to be removed from applications during candidate assessment. Ensuring a non-biased recruitment process. Eploy also has award winning recruitment analytics to measure your Diversity and Inclusion programme with real-time, secure data driven dashboards.

We solve the challenges of Media & Creative talent acquisition

Recruitment in the Media & Creative industry comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps recruiters in the Media & Creative sector tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.

What channels do media & creative recruiters use for sourcing candidates?

Media & Creative organisations find a good mix of candidates from their website/ career pages for their vacancies. Professional Social Networks, such as LinkedIn are popular sourcing channels, utilised by 100% of Media & Creative sector in-house recruitment teams. The use of Employee Referrals is also a popular sourcing channel to find suitable talent, utilised by 79% of respondents.

42% of Media & Creative organisations turn to agencies for help in filling their vacancies, which is delivering results but can affect the company’s cost of hire.

Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Survey

Which sourcing channels work best in Media & Creative??

When we look at how the Media & Creative sector is succeeding with talent attraction, the Sourcing Quadrant paints an interesting picture. Sponsored Job Aggregators is one of the sourcing channels that offers high quality and quantity of creative talent. It's closely followed by Professional Social Media Networks, like LinkedIn, as well as other Social Media platforms, which attracts a larger number of candidates, although they tend to be of lower quality than the ones sourced via LinkedIn.

Having a great careers site is also one of the ways that is working to attract a steady pool of quality and quantity of candidates. Other channels like CV Databases, Employee Referrals and ATS/CRM also tend to attract high quality candidates.

Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Report

Levels of hiring in the Media & Creative sector for next 12 months

Media & Creative sector, the levels of hiring in the next 12 months look set to rise according to 32% of respondents, with 45% expecting no change and 23% citing that hiring levels will decrease.

When sourcing candidates it is important that there are simple, streamlined tools that allow for recruitment on the go for all those involved. That's why, with Eploy - as well as getting an award-winning Media & Creative Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal that's so easy to use your hiring managers will actually enjoy recruiting with it!

These handy downloadable checklists will help you to understand the needs of the various audiences involved with recruitment.

Media & Creative sector hiring challenges

Understanding the Media & Creative sector hiring challenges helps to put in place ways to address them.

Scarcity of qualified candidates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce are the top two challenges. Not having the permission to advertise salaries also features highly as a challenge, with 41% of respondents indicating it as one. The salaries that are advertised being lower than market average also makes it difficult to attract the right candidates.

To collaborate better as a team on day-to-day activities, monitor your KPIs and get a handle on your recruitment metrics.

With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built in. You can create dashboards that measure and monitor every aspect of your hiring process in real-time.

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Here's what media & creative recruitment teams are saying about Eploy

“We had outgrown our ATS and selected Eploy as the best solution to improve our recruitment journey for candidates and the recruitment team. We worked with the Eploy implementation team to design the system for our differing requirements across locations. We wanted all our recruitment activities, vacancies, reporting and measurement in one place, which is now a reality using Eploy. We have a better candidate experience and a clear careers site reflective of our employer brand and consistency across the end-to-end recruitment process.”
Luke Suhanksi-JohnGlobal Recruitment Partner
“The configuration of Eploy was easy to adapt and enabled us to go live rapidly. As part of Aardman’s long-term plan for recruitment aligned to projects and company growth, Eploy provides the ability to grow with us and engage hiring managers and candidates. The talent pooling features mean we can proactively recruit and filter for candidates who have applied for roles previously. The Eploy dashboards will enable us to securely collect ED&I data, and display our progress, identifying areas for improvement to achieve our diversity goals..''
Claire BrindleySenior HR Advisor
"After searching for the right ATS for nearly a year, Eploy was the only solution that gave us a better way to manage the candidate experience in a fully flexible and customisable way. Our hiring managers are now part of our recruitment strategy through Eploy's Hiring Manager portal to easily review and provide feedback to candidates and colleagues. Our careers site is the central hub for recruiting and reflects our reputation for expertly crafting characterful content by our team of talent.''
William FouldsPeople & Talent Advisor

"After searching for the right ATS for nearly a year, Eploy was the only solution that gave us a better way to manage the candidate experience in a fully flexible and customisable way. Our hiring managers are now part of our recruitment strategy through Eploy's Hiring Manager portal to easily review and provide feedback to candidates and colleagues. Our careers site is the central hub for recruiting and reflects our reputation for expertly crafting characterful content by our team of talent.''