Last week marked something of a personal highlight with the winning of my 100th award at the Recruitment Business Awards 2013.
(Not to mention, Award 101 too – but that maybe the theme for a later post.)
It got me thinking.
That after 20 years in the recruitment marketing industry, should I still be creating award-winning work? Shouldn’t there be a new generation (or two) producing better?
That when I started working in recruitment comms – digital, websites and social media – all the areas that, as an agency, we have embraced over the past years didn’t even exist. And now look at them.
That you can never stop learning. We saw the potential of Social Media over 4 years ago and began seeing how we could utilise it for recruitment. Starting from scratch, not case studies. Learning all the way, while the more cautious watched from the sidelines and only now are putting a toe in.
That the only awards worth winning, are for work that actually ‘worked’. Not just looked pretty. But work that ‘looks pretty’ and actually generated results, they’re the ones.
That you can never set out to produce an award-winning piece. It never happens. Start thinking this is the one and it never will be. Start thinking ‘I want to create the best work I can’. And it may have a chance.
That you can never disregard the ‘big idea’. It doesn’t matter if it’s a tweet or a global careers site, it should always be based on an idea. Not an execution. Not a new piece of tech. An idea that connects to the target audience.
And finally, that it’s great to be hands on. It keeps you closer to what works. Closer to the audience. Closer to what’s important. Closer to reality. And, who knows, maybe closer to Award No. 102?
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