As a service to members, employment and publishing opportunities are always mentioned in monthly Guild eAlerts - see the eAlerts Archive for latest opportunities.
There is also a recruitment advertising service for organisations wishing to put full details of a post in front of the Guild's 450 members involved in journalism, photography and commercial communications. Charged at just £100 each, this comprises an item in the eAlert with a link to a pdf document giving as much detail of the organisation and the post it wants to fill as the advertiser wishes to include. This allows Guild members interested in the position to get details immediately and follow-up the opportunity if they wish.
Past users of this service include:
- 5M Publishing (online editor)
- AgriBusiness Communications (PR executive)
- Farmers Weekly (reporters, section editors)
- IAgrE (house magazine publishing contract)
- John Deere (house magazine editor)
- Scottish Agricultural College (head of communications)
- AgriScot (event PR and marketing consultant)
- Watt Publishing (International magazine editor)
- Whisper PR (account executive)
- Yorkshire Post (agricultural correspondent)
- Meat Hygiene Service (communications & public affairs manager)
- Kendalls PR (PR account manager)
- Pinstone Communications (PR account manager)
- DairyCo (communications manager)
- Savills Rural (PR manager)
- RDP Advertising & Marketing (PR account manager)
- Liz Snaith Consultants (PR account executive)
- Farmers Guardian (machinery editor)
One past user of the service says: "Several of the better quality applicants responded to the Guild's e-Alert; we have successfully appointed someone and he is a Guild member. We had small numbers in terms of responses to our recruitment ad from all sources, but it is quality that counts. We would certainly use the Guild again for future appointments advertising, as it is so well targeted for our needs."
Nine high quality tenders were submitted to the IAgrE for its house magazine contract, six of them as a result of circulating the tender document via the Guild's eAlert service. The contract was subsequently awarded to a Guild member.
Chris Whetnall of IAgrE comments: "It was a very useful exercise that resulted in substantial transparency of process, added credibility to the tendering process and left me feeling that, having attracted a wide spread of submissions, I had done a good job."
The AgriScot event used the Guild eAlert service to help recruit a new PR and marketing agency. Bill Romanis of the organising committee said: "We didn't expect a big response, and didn't get one, but those we did hear from were of the highest calibre, so the exercise was most certainly worthwhile."
Contact website and eAlerts editor Peter Hill.
