It has been award season in the recruitment world and following our recent success in the “Best Small Recruitment Agency” award at the National Online Recruitment Awards we are thrilled to have struck gold again, this time scooping the “Best Recruitment Website” award at last night’s Marketing and Advertising Recruitment Awards.

The website is designed to make finding your next job as easy as possible. Sign up for a My Dylan account and let Dylan do the searching for you, it will learn what you are looking for and start suggesting jobs for you! We also hope the website lets you get to know us, the consultants, much better. We ask a lot of questions of our candidates and clients so we get to know everyone really well, it allows us to make the right talent matches. With that in mind, we think it’s only fair to let you know more about us too!

We hope you like the website too. Please have a look around, we’d love to know what you think.

Boys and Girls, we are in the thick of Movember, quite literally! After last years huge success we were chomping at the bit to donate our top lips for a ridiculous look…all in the name of chari-dee! But what a worthwhile cause it is. Prostate Cancer affects thousands of men in the UK and the awareness generated by Movember is growing each year. You might have seen the likes of Gary Linekar and the MOTD boys sporting some rather dodgy facial hair but, rather than simply let our taches raise awareness, the boys at Dylan decided to go the extra yard and, through a partnership with the Wilkinson Sword Men UK facebook page, we decided to showcase characters inspired by said top lip ticklers. What you’re about to see is an homage to Pilots, Cowboys & Mexican wrestlers, amongst other creations. You can keep up to date on the Dylan Mo-Team’s progress on their Movember page and even make a donation to the team for this fan-tache-tic cause!

Richa Arora, Experiential and Events Junior Consultant, talks about the power of education by making it fun, immersive, creative and interesting!

Winter, 2010 – As my internship at Dylan was drawing to a close, I decided to earn a few extra pre-Christmas pounds by teaching students who took GCSE and A-levels in Science and Mathematics during after work hours (I am geeky, yes!) . I loved it, purely because it is a very fulfilling profession. The thought of imparting knowledge is very satisfying and, most of the time, it’s not one-way. I learnt so much myself while in the process of teaching these really bright kids. (more…)

I have a scooter and a car and I contribute literally hundreds of pounds a year to councils and tow companies as I over run on the meter, forgetting to top up the bike parking for the week (Westminster council even charge you to park your scooter) and park on the wrong side of the wrong line now and again. So you can imagine the relationship that I have with parking wardens. So it is with slight unease that I watched this recent advert by Saatchi & Saatchi and found myself smiling. I put it down to the music, there’s no way a parking warden will ever make me break a smile.

My experience so far with QR codes has been disappointing. I just don’t seem to have seen one that has made me go ‘Wow!’ or been that breakthrough idea where they are really adding value or improving the customer experience.

A recent example comes from a poster I saw in London which I presume was advertising a band’s new album. I say ‘I presume’ as all that was there was the band’s name (which I have forgotten) and then a massive QR code which, in normal music marketing, would be replaced with a picture of the album cover or the band itself (the skinnier the jeans the better) with various comments and star ratings.

I rather cynically assumed that the brands marketer thought, “Hey, you know what? Mostly kids and teens like this band and they are cool and down with new tech, let’s just whack a great QR code on the poster and that will be ground breaking”. No it wasn’t in my opinion. I have no idea what band’s poster I am talking about, whether they have a new album or a new tour and I have no idea what message they were trying to spread other than “We’re not trying to talk to you”.

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You all remember Lego Technic right?! I definitely do and personally speaking I was a bit of a dab hand at making planes! So it was great to see the brand brought to life through a recent experiential campaign.

The campaign invites fans of all ages to invent and build their own Extreme Machine using Lego Technic to win a range of prizes. A panel of judges from The Gadget Show, How It Works magazine and Lego Technic will pick winners based on style, function and imagination.

Harry Harrison of Lego Technic said: “With Lego Technic, the possibilities are endless, so we are asking people to run with their imagination and invent their ultimate ‘Extreme Machine’.

“It’ll be a lot of fun whether you’re five or 50. People can get involved either by coming along to the roadshow, or by building or drawing their own ‘Extreme Machines’ at home and uploading the image online at www.LEGOtechnicchallenge.co.uk.”

The Lego Technic Invent and Build Garage will be touring the country, stopping at Smyths toy stores, Center Parcs holiday destinations and Legoland locations until September. The tour will allow fans to use Lego Technic to build their own Extreme Machine. Models built on the day will be entered into the prize draw and participants will get the chance to win one of the extra daily event prizes.