Is PR recruitment getting harder? PRWeek podcast

<p>What do the recent agency and holding company results tell us about the state of the PR market? And what's happening with recruitment? PRWeek takes a look in the latest Noise in Brief podcast. </p><p>Noise in Brief – a shorter offshoot of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast – is released fortnightly and features PRWeek UK journalists discussing major issues from the previous seven days or so.</p><p>Download the podcast via&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/beyond-the-noise-the-prweek-podcast/id1513615965" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0onUHcQsn5ITC1lYtW89jZ?si=c965c18c49724d2c&nd=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or listen or on your favourite platform.</p><p>This week’s edition is hosted by PRWeek UK editor John Harrington features reporters Eliza Wiredu and Evie Barrett.</p><p>Recent weeks have seen most of the big listed holding companies - including WPP, FTI Consulting, Omnicom, IPG and Publicis - announce results for the fourth quarter of 2023 and the full year. Edelman also revealed its FY numbers last week.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1862578/edelman-wpp-fti-omnicom-ipg-publicis-%E2%80%93-q4-fy-results-round-up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read PRWeek's round-up here.</a></p><p>The PRWeek trio pick out the biggest trends from the figures and look at how trading has changed so far in 2024.</p><p>The state of the PR recruitment market is also put under the microscope following the publication of PRWeek's Recruitment Report last week.</p><p>Among other things, the Report found the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1861750/prweek-2024-recruitment-report-rocky-year-new-jobs-advertised-dropped-almost-one-third" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">number of new PR jobs advertised dropped by around one third</a>&nbsp;last year. It also looked at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1861901/prweek-2024-recruitment-report-account-managers-demand-c-suite-roles-gained-biggest-salary-increase" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">which job titles have been most in-demand</a>&nbsp;- and which saw the biggest pay rises.</p><p>Meanwhile, the journalists also look at recent trends in brand collaborations, and ask: what makes a good brand partnership?</p><p><br></p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>