At 2nd City Resourcing, our aim is to provide clients with specialist marketing and communications resource solutions. Our clients include many UK leading professional companies including non-profit making organisations and charities. We are unique because we use we use high quality marketing professionals to deliver professional marketers. We interview all candidates prior to inclusion in our regularly updated database.

We are able to offer services across a spectrum of complementary services and we are additionally able to tailor our services to meet client needs.2nd City is the only agency in the Midlands to comply with the REC Professional Code of Conduct for recruiters working within our industry. We are also a founding member of the specialised MMCC Committee that supports Best Practice in Marketing, Media, Creative and Communications work.

We welcome the opportunity to speak to clients and to be able to discuss how we can offer a tailor made flexible service to clients. Please do not hesitate to contact us 0121 665 6768 or 0115 954 1786.

Interim search & selection

Interim Managers are an ideal strategic solution for businesses when there is a critical staffing gap to fill, headcount freeze or delay in filling a permanent post.

Interim Managers are a highly cost effective way to ensure that there is business continuity which is often more effective than a management consultant.

Interim Mangers are usually overqualified bring great business benefits additionally they can start quickly meeting client needs in a quick timeframe whilst the Company pursues a longer term strategy.

Our interim managers are highly experienced in the areas of marketing & communication and work at all levels from middle management right through to board level.

Each interim manager has to demonstrate a track record in delivery, whether it be strategic or operational and we require two years of references to support their work.

Permanent search & selection

2nd City Resourcing recruits permanent marketing & communications staff across every industry sector and salary level.

Our services are cost effective, clearly explained and are proven to generate results.

Where Employers work with us exclusively we have a 100% track record in delivering. 2nd City Resourcing has over a 99% success rate in the chosen applicant successfully completing their probation period.

Recent research we conducted demonstrated that since 2004, 82% of applicants placed in that year are still in situ. The majority of these have received promotions.

We recruit permanent positions using 3 key processes; a database search using our internal database, an advertised search which can provide access to candidates who have not been looking, but who are excited by the position being advertised, and executive selection involving targeting the right candidates a client requires.

We work closely with our clients and define the best recruitment mix depending on the type of role, timeframe and client budget. We are able to work flexibly.

Executive Level search & selection

2nd City Resourcing is proactively involved in growing its database of permanent executive level candidates on its database. We have experience recruiting Marketing & Communications Executives up to Board level and additionally we can provide executive level interim managers for projects, change management programs or to fill and interim gap.

We can provide a headhunting service for clients and are committed to ensuring that our Executive level searches match the client brief in particular as the importance of cultural fit and experience are cited by many clients as the most important elements of finding people with the right industry and functional experience.

Field Marketing & Events Staff

2nd City Resourcing has a bespoke database which enables the company to target precisely the right type of field marketing events staff a client is looking for personalised to the type of event and the Clients strategic objectives. We are constantly recruiting good customer service flexible candidates onto our database so that we can find the right type of staff for an event working with clients to ensure that staff are trained to promote brand and engage with customers.

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Recruitment & HR Outsourcing

In today’s workplace Human Resources play a much wider role than hiring. Our specialist HR Consultancy team can offer real practical help to employers facing different business situations.

Each HR Consultant is selected for their expertise and we can cost effectively provide support in a variety of areas such as:

• Preparing offer letters and Contracts of Employment
• Providing detailed and legally supportive disciplinary processes for you to follow minimising risk
• Supporting and or managing the redundancy process
• Redundancy services to support your staff in securing new employment quickly
• Interview coaching and training for hiring managers including competency based interviews
• Assessment centres

• Benchmarking of existing staff or reviews of salary and benefit packages

Redundancy support

We provide standard and bespoke services to companies and candidates going through the redundancy process. Services include managing the redundancy process on behalf of companies, restructuring, reallocation workshops for employees being made redundant including CV and interview workshops and personality profiling.

Marketing projects

2nd City Resourcing are able to deliver specialist projects for clients on an ad hoc basis.

Project work can be much shorter than interim recruitment and are usually tailored to meet a specific organisation’s need to fulfill a requirement in many marketing and communication disciplines.Sometimes a project requires additional support that can’t be covered by an interim or through your external marketing agency.Our specialist projects division supports clients through these situations. Examples include:

• Provision of media, marketing, communication and management training
• Planning a new product launch, event and PR 
• Qualitative and quantitative research
• Designing and Implementing new websitesImplementing
• Google Analytics and search engine optimization
• Implementing a specific marketing project

We are able to provide a team of specialist skills to meet specific project briefs. This type of project can often be useful when businesses are going through a redundancy process and require additional support, but do not want to take on interim resources.