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Are marketers being taken advantage of in the challenging recruitment market?
Many jobseeking marketers are spending hundreds of pounds on CV rewrites and coaching – but some headhunters argue this shouldn’t come at a cost.
By Molly Innes
“I’m going to be absolutely clear with you, this CV is not doing you any favours.”
Hearing this from a recruiter would sting even the most thick-skinned marketer. But to be told this after paying a career coach £750 to rewrite, format and edit your CV is brutal.
But that’s what is happening to some marketers who are going to great lengths to equip themselves in the current recruitment market.
“When I get an appalling CV through I will tell the candidate,” says Emma Archer, an experienced marketing recruiter who works at Artis Recruitment in Bristol.
