The PR Industry Has a Race Issue
31st January 2023
Workplace buzzwords change year by year and the PR industry isn’t any different. 2022 was the year of “ESG” and our inbox were flooded by requests for “sustainability specialists”; but DE&I is different. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion should go and does go beyond being a tick-box exercise. To simply accept the idea that our workplaces are not representative of the societies we live in, with many HQ’s being based in one of the most multicultural cities in the world, what has and continues to go wrong?
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2022 in review and looking forward to 2023
20th December 2022
This year has been consistently busy with hiring, movement and growth across the corporate affairs industry. Agencies have been flourishing and in-house teams are back in growth mode after their risk-averse approach during the pandemic. Here are the key themes from this year and our predictions for 2023.
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To Counter, Or Not To Counter
31st October 2022
Counter-offers have always happened. A superstar resigns and the existing employer tries to convince them out of it. In the current, incredibly competitive climate, we have seen and now expect almost everyone resigning to be counter-offered. Sometimes the counter is financial and sometimes it incorporates promotions and changing responsibilities. But if you’re a manager, should you counter if someone in your team resigns? If you’ve accepted another job, are there circumstances where you should accept a counter?
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Healthcare Communications and Declining Patient Satisfaction
30th September 2022
The outbreak of COVID-19 saw a widespread decline in patient satisfaction within the healthcare sector, as reported by the NIHR. At a time when communication couldn’t be more vital to the lives of millions, where did the healthcare PR sector go?
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What is ESG in the Context of The Corporate Affairs Industry?
31st August 2022
Society has developed to a point where brands are required to have a voice on the environment and social issues as well as demonstrate good governance. It’s no longer from an investment perspective either, there is a lot of emphasis on everyone playing their role in society and corporates are no different. Many of the Head of Corporate Affairs we speak to are seeing ESG form a part of their remit and as a result, communications agencies are having to reflect that too. But what does that translate to in practice?
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In Conversation: Our Three Key Challenges, with Steven McIntosh (Executive Director of Advocacy and Communications at Macmillan Cancer Support)
27th July 2022
A series of conversations with communications and public affairs leaders continues this month as I speak to Steven McIntosh, Executive Director of Advocacy and Communications at Macmillan Cancer Support, about the challenges of working with a government in transition and against a backdrop of national health inequality and a difficult recruitment market.
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Why consider a recruitment career with MadlinHanna Consulting?
27th June 2022
In this month’s blog, the team share insights into what they enjoy about recruitment and working at MadlinHanna Consulting. It’s often not a career people have an intent to enter but can lead to interesting opportunities, especially if you find the right kind of team, company and sector. It’s a social career with good earning potential and progression but we hope we can show there is much more to it than that!
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In Conversation: The Balance of Power in Parliament, with Toni Pearce (Former Head of Government Relations at Oxfam)
25th May 2022
Over the past few months, I have spent some time with senior government relations figures to gather insight into the key issues of the day and how Brexit, Covid and a flurry of Government standards issues have affected their work. I spoke to Toni Pearce, former Head of Government Relations at Oxfam, now Special Advisor for advocacy and campaigns to WWF UK, about how the dynamic and sometimes fragile balance of power in Parliament shaped her engagement strategies over her six-year tenure at Oxfam.
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