The Growth Bites Podcast S3 Ep6

Simon Malpas


Stop Wasting Your Recruitment Advertising Budget

 

 
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About this episode

In this episode of Growth Bites, Jo Perrotta speaks with Simon Malpas, Co-founder of TRS Media, about taking control of recruitment advertising budgets and making better use of job board spend.

Drawing on over 20 years in recruitment advertising, including roles at Totaljobs and Jobsite, Simon explains why agencies should review performance rather than automatically renew existing contracts. He discusses using your own data and advertising health checks to identify wasted spend, improve candidate quality and make more informed purchasing and optimisation decisions.

 

 

 

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Simon Malpas

Co-Founder

Before setting up TRS Media in 2022, Simon had over 20 years’ experience within the recruitment sector, the last 6 years coming as an Account Director with Totaljobs and Jobsite. During this time, he looked after a lot of the major recruitment agencies in the North of England. He has experience in helping agencies of all sizes, from global recruiters to one-person start-ups, brand new to advertising. He has helped them purchase and optimise advertising that was right for their business.

Simon now specialises in working with recruitment agencies to help them achieve more with their advertising. Using a data-driven approach to help recruitment companies understand, purchase and optimise their advertising spend. The use of the company's own data is key to ensuring they can do more with less.

TRS Media is the official media agency of APSCo and works mainly with recruitment companies and RPOs to help them know, purchase and use their media better.

Simon is based just outside of Manchester and has been for the last 25 years but is originally from the Lake District, so is no stranger to rain!

 

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