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Lorraine has an impressive 20 years’ experience in the PR industry the last 10 spent in recruitment! During this time, she’s had two kids, travelled to remote places and even qualified as a nail technician! Lorraine loves soaking up industry news like a vast sponge and using her network of contacts to make great things happen.
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Nov 14, 13 •
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We recently had a candidate who almost missed out on a plum role because his Instagram feed had too many pictures of cats. Yes, it’s kind of funny but is it unfair? Or is it reasonable when you consider how PRs need to work social media channels on...
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Nov 4, 13 •
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You’ve seen planking, the popular meme which spread across the internet featuring people posing horizontally in various improbable locations. Since then you’ve seen owling, teapotting and even hadoukening, and now we have a new craze – mamming;...
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Oct 14, 13 •
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This is a great opportunity to join a family-feel, independent agency that has been PRCA Agency of the Year numerous times, and PR Week Award winners on many an occassion. Oh and if you’re in tech and want out – here’s your chance! As a...
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Sep 27, 13 •
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You might think Channel 4’s in house marketing/PR team has it easy, publicising the highly anticipated resurrection of Agent Phil Coulson on tonight’s S.H.I.E.L.D, but happily, they haven’t rested on their laurels and have branched away...
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Sep 27, 13 •
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We’re delighted to report that this month’s campaign award goes to Macmillan for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The event actually started in 1990, when a local fundraising committee decided to hold a coffee morning where people came along to...
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Sep 10, 13 •
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How bloody exciting! Workfish has been announced as a finalist in the Best Recruitment Website category for the Marketing Advertising Recruitment Awards (MARAs). Well we’re just chuffed aren’t we and are looking forward to letting our hair...
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Aug 14, 13 •
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This is completely brilliant – I am a massive Breaking Bad fan and thanks to the brave souls at Citizen Brick you can now have your very own ‘LEGO’ playset for hours of pretend meth-making fun! The set (yes you can actually buy it!) comes...
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Aug 6, 13 •
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The German branch of the World Wildlife Foundation masterminded this stunt as they installed 1,600 styrofoam replica pandas to celebrate its 50th anniversary and to raise public awareness of the endangered animal’s fragile situation. WWF research has...
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Aug 2, 13 •
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Workfish founder and director, our very own Lorraine Barker, has been appointed to the judging panel for this year’s Recruitment Business Awards. Organised by modern marketing and media magazine The Drum, the awards are now in their 11th year and have...
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Jul 30, 13 •
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Strictly speaking, it is rare that PR agencies will come to a recruitment company for help in hiring a Junior Account Executive, or even sometimes an AE. Why would they? Especially when they’ve normally got a filing cabinet fit to burst with the CVs of...
