How to Hire an Account Manager Quickly (Without Sifting 200 CVs)
Hiring an Account Manager is usually the bottleneck to growing a boutique agency.
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Hiring an Account Manager is usually the bottleneck to growing a boutique agency.
The average marketing agency takes three to four weeks to make a hire. The best candidates accept offers in week two.
The average job post now attracts around 258 applicants. For an account manager or strategist role at a marketing agency, that number can climb higher.
The moment you sign a new client, a countdown begins. You have days, not weeks, to staff the account before the kickoff call.
The average cost per hire in the US is $4,700, according to SHRM. Most HR teams accept that number without interrogating it.
Resume parsing software converts unstructured resume files into structured, searchable data. But parsing alone is only half the job.
Hiring 5 people and hiring 50 are not the same job. The process that works at low volume collapses under pressure:
A recruiter's reputation lives and dies on the quality of their shortlist. Send a hiring manager 15 loosely matched candidates with no explanation and you lose trust.
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