Some digital marketing agencies will prosper after the Coronavirus shutdown. However, some agencies will fail. Bob Knight once said, “The key is not the will to win…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”

The One Thing a Leader Must Do in a Crisis
Mike Krzyzewski, more commonly known as Coach K, is arguably one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. I never liked Coach K, as his teams always defeated my favorite teams. However, with time and experience comes maturity.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next VP of Ecommerce
The VP of Ecommerce is responsible for the success of (and the strategies behind) your organization’s ecommerce channel. In other words, the VP of Ecommerce is a role that is fully dedicated to managing, developing, and growing your organization’s ecommerce channel.

The Critical Key to Recruiting Success
We used to live in a world where the big ate the small. Now, we live in a world where the fast eat the slow. The velocity of business may be rapidly increasing, but the business world is facing a talent shortage. An organization’s ability to identify and hire talent will be directly proportional to their success, so talent acquisition should be a core strategic focus for today’s business leaders.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next User Experience Leader
Depending on the size and structure of an organization, the UX leader may carry the title of Vice President of User Experience or Director of User Experience.

Five Tips to Managing Millennials
As recruiters in the digital field, our clients speak frequently of management struggles involving the newest generation in the workplace. Millennials have a lot to offer, but generational differences require a new approach to management that is effective and ultimately successful.

Nine Tips for Remote Leaders
Businesses are in uncharted waters and leaders are attempting to adjust their sails. The shift to remote work presents many challenges, but this uncertain time also presents many opportunities.

Hiring Your Digital Marketing Quarterback
As author Roy T. Bennett once said, “If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Marketing changed drastically when the internet became everyone’s main source of information. Digital marketing is now cheaper, faster, more measurable and more engaging than traditional marketing.
Our articles give you the best content about building digital marketing teams and careers, so you can stay informed and gain valuable insight.

One Simple Thing You Can Do to Grow
When we were kids in school, there was a straightforward path set before us. We started a class, read the books, went to the lectures, did the homework, took the exam, and got the grade necessary to move on. All along the way, there were expected places where feedback on our performance and potential were given to us.

Six Questions to Ask Before Making Your Next Analytics Hire
With the right people and the right tools, data analytics turns data into information and information into actionable insights which further your organization’s goals. How do you hire qualified people who can help you make informed decisions? Ask these six questions in order to hire the right people to manage analytics for your organization:

Six Questions to Ask Before Taking Your Next Analytics Role
As an analytics professional, you know there are myriad tools and methods that enable businesses to make informed decisions. But you, the analytics expert, play a crucial role in transforming raw data into information and insights, which in turn are used by your team members to make the decisions that drive the business forward.

Make Work an Adventure
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller

Interview Preparation: Win Your Dream Job
Our staffing and recruiting experts at TeamBuilder Search have conducted thousands of job interviews. In addition, we have conducted thousands of post-interview debriefs with hiring managers. We have learned what successful candidates do in job interview preparation.

Top Four Tips For Using Social Media While Job Hunting
“The Advent of social media is having a big impact on the job search today. It is critical that job seekers of all ages learn to use social media tools!” – Katie McGinty

Building and Leveraging Your LinkedIn Network To Get Your Next Role
Searching for your next role is an exciting time. Build and leverage your professional network throughout this process. LinkedIn offers great opportunities for career advancement networking. Find your next role with the help of your LinkedIn network.

Six Keys To A Great Cover Letter
Cover letters are meant to help you obtain an interview. Your cover letter separates you from other candidates. Demonstrate that you have the skills, experiences, and achievements needed to be successful in a role by providing a strong cover letter. Consider the following six tips:

7 Keys to Building Your Personal Brand
All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. – Tom Peters in Fast Company

Four Questions to Improve Your Agency’s Hiring
Albert Einstein once said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” An agency can be an exciting place, but many find it scary and overwhelming. It just isn’t the right fit for most people. As a result, it can be difficult to find people who can be successful in an agency setting.

Six Tips to Hire the Right Sales Rep
As a hiring agency, we place candidates in CRO roles, inside sales roles, and every role in between. We mainly focus on placing people within emerging tech and digital transformation teams. Regardless of what your focus is, follow these six tips to hire your next sales rep.

Five Tips to Managing Millennials
As recruiters in the digital field, our clients speak frequently of management struggles involving the newest generation in the workplace. Millennials have a lot to offer, but generational differences require a new approach to management that is effective and ultimately successful.

Four Tips for a Healthy Culture
Hiring the right people to fulfill your vision is essential, but assembling a great team for your organization is a difficult task. Finding the right person to fill each role is time-consuming. Something equally important—and equally tricky—is building and maintaining a healthy organizational culture.

5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring Your Next Paid Social Strategist
Social strategists develop and implement social media strategy in order to support a company’s digital marketing efforts.

Nine Ways to Give Job Candidates a Positive Experience
It’s a hiring manager’s nightmare. Someone on your team alerts you to a new review on an employer review website. You cautiously click, and it’s an all-out roast of the organization, its people, and its culture.

Four Basic Strategies to Retain Talent
Julius Caesar once said, “No one is so brave that they are not disturbed by unexpected change.” Every experienced hiring manager has been through it. You get the team running like a well-oiled machine and then one of your top-performers puts in their notice. Ouch.

Three Questions to Help You Hire Your Next Art Director
Steve Easterbrook once said, “When you get things right, good things happen.” It seems simple enough, but hiring your next Art Director can present significant challenge.

5 Tips for Reentering the Work Force After a Health Challenge or Personal Event
Sometimes, everything goes your way, your career is on fire, and everything you touch turns to gold. You are unstoppable in your career arc and everyone wants you on their team. However, sometimes, life throws us a curve ball.

Four Tips to Keep Frequent Moves from Hurting Your Career
If you have made a few career moves in a short period of time, then hiring managers may consider you a job hopper. You may already be aware that this label is usually not seen in a positive light.

3 Questions to Ask Before Taking Your Next Digital Strategist Role
When you’re buying a pair of pants, you have a general idea of what you want. You have a good idea of what size and style work for you, but there are other things you have to take into consideration as well.

Four Tips for Hiring Job Hoppers
“Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.”
― Jeffrey Fry

Top 10 Ways to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
According to Forbes, LinkedIn is the most advantageous professional networking platform. Among its 750+ million users are recruiters and staffing professionals looking to fill open roles and jobs. In fact, according to Kinsta, 90% of recruiters use LinkedIn. Regardless of whether you’re actively seeking a new role, keeping your LinkedIn profile up-to-date benefits your career development. Here are the top ten ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile.

Top Four Career Tips For Uncertain Times
A friend recently said this to me. It’s a well-known adage and it holds true—you cannot fill others if your own cup is empty. Current global events—as challenging as they are—provide an opportunity to really focus on personal, professional and career development.

Digital Marketing Agency Growth Checklist
Some digital marketing agencies will prosper after the Coronavirus shutdown. However, some agencies will fail. Bob Knight once said, “The key is not the will to win…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”

Nine Tips for Remote Leaders
Businesses are in uncharted waters and leaders are attempting to adjust their sails. The shift to remote work presents many challenges, but this uncertain time also presents many opportunities.

The One Thing a Leader Must Do in a Crisis
Mike Krzyzewski, more commonly known as Coach K, is arguably one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. I never liked Coach K, as his teams always defeated my favorite teams. However, with time and experience comes maturity.

10 Tips on Recovering From a Job Loss
Most people experience at least one unplanned job loss during their career. Being displaced or losing a job can be very challenging on multiple levels. It’s typical to have feelings of disbelief, anger, grief, along with concerns about financial security.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next VP of Ecommerce
The VP of Ecommerce is responsible for the success of (and the strategies behind) your organization’s ecommerce channel. In other words, the VP of Ecommerce is a role that is fully dedicated to managing, developing, and growing your organization’s ecommerce channel.

Hiring Your Digital Marketing Quarterback
As author Roy T. Bennett once said, “If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Marketing changed drastically when the internet became everyone’s main source of information. Digital marketing is now cheaper, faster, more measurable and more engaging than traditional marketing.

The Critical Key to Recruiting Success
We used to live in a world where the big ate the small. Now, we live in a world where the fast eat the slow. The velocity of business may be rapidly increasing, but the business world is facing a talent shortage. An organization’s ability to identify and hire talent will be directly proportional to their success, so talent acquisition should be a core strategic focus for today’s business leaders.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next User Experience Leader
Depending on the size and structure of an organization, the UX leader may carry the title of Vice President of User Experience or Director of User Experience.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next VP of Marketing
The VP of Marketing is a notoriously difficult hire for organizations to make, but remains a critically important one.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next Chief Revenue Officer
The Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) leverages knowledge of sales and marketing in order to manage (and drive growth of) an organization’s revenue streams. The Chief Revenue Officer is responsible for developing strategic partnerships and aligning all of the organization’s revenue-generating departments.

Three Keys to Hiring Your Next Chief Marketing Officer
Digitalization has drastically changed the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Many organizations are now focused on accelerating their digital transformation, but the unpredictability of marketing efforts and the need to drive profits still lead to a very short tenure for most CMOs.

Why You Need a Specialized Digital Marketing Recruiter
There are many recruiters out there. Choosing an inexperienced or non-specialized agency will not only cause frustration, but also prevent you from reaching your goals. Thus, choosing a recruiting agency to work with is a very important decision.

3 Questions to Ask Before Hiring Your Chief Digital Officer
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) drives digital transformation and optimizes an organization’s internal processes. Though the role is a relatively novel one, the strategic leadership of the Chief Digital Officer is critically important in driving growth and connecting companies to tech-savvy consumers.

3 Keys to the Champion Mindset of a CDO
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is typically a company’s principal leader in the digital transformation process. 84% of companies fail at digital transformation, and the average tenure of a CDO is shorter than other C-Suite roles. Of course, there are many reasons for this; it isn’t easy to serve as the primary transformation leader and intermediary between other executives and functions in the creation and rollout of digital initiatives. In order to be successful as a CDO, you must have a champion mindset.

Three Questions to Ask Before Hiring Your Next Chief Growth Officer
In a digitally-driven global marketplace, organizational growth isn’t achieved without deliberate, strategic effort. The role of the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) discovers, develops, and implements novel engines of growth which aim to maintain organizational success.

The Attention Getting Seven-Section Resume
According to The Ladders, recruiters take six seconds to decide if a candidate is a good fit for a role. Get your recruiter’s attention with a stellar resume.

3 Questions to Ask Before Making Your Next Digital Strategist Hire
When you buy an assemble-it-yourself piece of furniture, it’s a given that you’re going to need a tool that isn’t included in the box. Whether it’s a hammer or a flathead screwdriver, you need the exact right tool to get the job done. It’s simple: nothing else is going to work.

Two Key Things To Do When Relocating New Employees
Picture this: you go to the store to get ice cream, only to find they’re out of the flavor you want. Then you go to every other store in the neighborhood, just to end up empty-handed. You know the next city over may carry what you’re looking for. But instead, you go home empty-handed or with something that you aren’t super excited about. You encounter a similar dilemma when you try to find your ideal candidate within a defined geographic area. Avoid this frustration. Broaden your search and be open to relocating new team members. Keep these two keys in mind when you begin this process:

The ONE Question to Answer When Hiring Your High-Growth Sales Leader
It can be difficult to hire the right sales leader for your high-growth emerging company. Answer one question in order to simplify this process and elevate the likelihood of hiring the right person for this important role.

Four Questions to Ask When Considering Your Next UX Role
As a User Experience professional there are a lot of great things about your job. The educating, evangelizing, and influencing you get to perform, in a rapidly expanding profession, can be a wonderfully rewarding challenge.

Three Skills Every User Experience Pro Should Develop
User experience is a great career. Whether we’re talking about UX Strategy (opportunity side) or UX Design (solution side), helping people experience the feelings they want to have is a fulfilling way to spend one’s time. We’ve built many UX teams and we’ve learned a lot along the way.

Two Common UX Mistakes
Oscar Wilde once said, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Additionally, Albert Einstein once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” We treat mistakes as a great source of learning. User experience is a relatively new undertaking in our clients’ typical foci of websites, apps, and Saas offerings. Thus, we learn a lot from early mistakes.

Four Questions to Help with Your Next UX Hire
User experience isn’t a quantifiable product or outcome as much as it is a feeling. It’s the feeling a user has as a result of experiencing a product. In our clients’ case, this product is most often a website, app, or a SaaS offering. A UX professional enables the experience and feelings the user wants to have.

8 Reasons to Create a 90-Day New Hire Success Plan
Mark Twain once said, “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Picture a horse race: there’s an all-out battle to the finish line, which ends mere minutes after the start of the race. Generally, competitors who leave the gate well also finish well.

Top 10 Mistakes In Digital Transformation
Al Franken once said, “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your ‘mistakes’ for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” Digital transformation is not for the faint of heart. Mistakes and missteps are easy to come by, but many failures are also easily avoided. Here are ten mistakes to avoid in your digital transformation journey:

Hire Above Your Weight Class
In boxing, we hear the phrase “punching above their weight” in reference to a fighter who hits harder than others in their weight class.

4 P’s of Cultural Fit
Lack of cultural fit is the cause of many less-than-ideal hiring situations. Sometimes a person feels like they just don’t belong at their job. Sometimes working with a team member reveals that they just aren’t a fit for the team.

5 Tips For Hiring Social Media Professionals
Stellar media content and strategy converts strangers into fans and fans into customers. Social media professionals require different skills depending on the role, organization, and project.

Do You Have a Fixed Mindset or a Growth Mindset? How to Leverage Each to Boost Your Career
You may have heard about the two types of mindsets, Fixed and Growth, in recent years. According to the research conducted by Carol Dweck, author of the book Mindset, the two mindsets can have an impact on career performance.

5 Resume Rules That Get You The Interview
Imagine that you sell toys. If your goal is to get the attention of children, you will probably focus on the toy’s bright colors, the sounds it makes, and how fun it is to play with.

Four P’s of Staffing a Digital Transformation Team
Welcome to our discussion on building and staffing your digital transformation team. Let’s start by aligning on a common definition of digital transformation. Being simple people, we like to define things simply. For the purposes of this post, we will simply define digital transformation as the application of current technologies to improve relationships with organizational stakeholders.

Working With Recruiters: Three Things You Must Know
Finding the right talent isn’t easy. Top talent is greatly sought after, and in areas as high-demand as digital marketing, top candidates have many options. This is why niche recruiters are so valuable.

Five Keys to Optimizing a Remote Sales Team
The record player was once the foremost way of consuming music. The record was removed from its sleeve, placed in the record player, and the needle was set just right. Records were awesome in their day. But skip a few tracks into the future and they’re antiquated. Now, we search and download music with just a few clicks. We create our own playlists with ease and we carry them everywhere. Music has advanced.

When to Hire a Digital Marketing Recruiter
Former NFL Head Coach Chuck NollM once said, “If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them, day in and day out.” Most organizations struggle with the question of how to best leverage the web in their business. In order to leverage the web, your organization’s digital marketing efforts need to be optimally staffed.

Cultural Fit in Emerging Growth Companies
One of my hobbies is mixed martial arts. My friends and family think I’m a little crazy, but I can’t help enjoy the training, and of course, the fighting. One thing I’ve learned is that fighting a smaller, faster guy can be very frustrating. They can be hard to hit, they strike quickly, and they’re gone before you can return fire.

4 Powerful P’s To Help You Build Your Digital Marketing Team
Owning, building, and selling a successful digital marketing company taught us a host of valuable lessons. Subsequently going through a merger and acquisition, as a result of selling a digital marketing firm, taught us even more. We’ve had the privilege of helping dozens of organizations properly build and staff their digital and integrated teams.

Four Things To Consider When Hiring From an Established Competitor
As an emerging company, it can be tempting to hire someone from a mature, established competitor or to recruit someone with a big title from a big company. However, recruits from mature, slow moving, well-established enterprises often do not survive at faster, more agile, more adaptable emerging technology companies.
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