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How to build and grow a winning agency workforce

Attracting and retaining talent has been a perennial challenge for public relations and communications agencies. However, in the past thr...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Mentoring: What’s in it For You?

Career-long connections with industry leaders Enhanced promotion prospects Increased likelihood of a raise Apply now to take part in the ...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

5 Secrets of Hiring Managers and Team Leaders

‘Teams or Zoom?’, ‘I’m in the waiting room’, ‘You’re on mute’, ‘ I have Zoom fatigue’. How often have we heard (and said) these phrases o...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

China Calling: PR and Communications in the Mainland

We’ve seen the headlines heralding the rise of China on the world stage. We’ve witnessed the cross-sector innovation originating in the M...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

4 Mentoring Myths

Prospect is so excited to launch the second annual Prospect Mentoring Scheme that will take place in London, Hong Kong and Singapore from...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Rowing Out of Your Comfort Zone By Emma Dale, Co-Founder & MD, Asia, Prospect

For the last few months, as part of my Female Confidence Booster workshops, I’ve been coaching women on how to build up their confidence ...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

How To Work With A Recruiter

How to work with a recruiter. I tend to ask most of the questions when I have a chat with someone. To be fair it’s because I hardly draw ...

By Colette Brown. Posted in Blog

4 Times When Freelancing is the Smartest Way to Progress Your Career

Demand for freelancers in the PR and communications sector has ebbed and flowed over the past decade. In the past, agencies and in-house ...

By Celia Wyndham. Posted in Blog

Building on Your Strengths by Emma Dale

“What are you good at?” Josephine* froze when I asked this question. We’d been in email contact over the past two days during which she h...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Supporting Female Entrepreneurs

Last month, Emma Dale, Prospect’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Asia, was invited to take part in a panel discussion as part of the H...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Empowering Professional Women by Asia MD Emma Dale

I’ve been a recruiter for more than two decades, and throughout that time I’ve had the great privilege of bearing witness to the professi...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Game Changers: Women in PR and Communications

A great session with some inspiring women in PR and Communications. Coming from diverse backgrounds, the speakers discussed the highs and...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

What Mentoring Means to Me

In 2020, Prospect celebrated its 18-year anniversary of providing talent solutions for the PR and communications industry. One of the rea...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Sentiment in Asia-Pacific

It’s been two months since we last checked in with a select group of PR and communications specialists from agency and in-house corporati...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

How to retain your superheroes

It may seem strange for a recruitment firm to be writing about talent retention. You might think that what we want more than anything is ...

By Colette Brown. Posted in Blog

Does the answer to the talent issue lie in creating a culture of ‘intrapreneurs’?

For years, our industry press has been publishing articles about the talent shortage & we’ve all been party to the ‘where is everyone...

By Colette Brown. Posted in Blog

Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm

“I just wasn’t convinced that she wanted to work with our company.” We had got to know the candidate, Jenny, over the course of the past ...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

How important is your job title in Asia?

There is no denying that job titles are important the world over. As human beings, what we do forms a huge part of our identity, self-wor...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

Freelancing can be a career stage

Freelancing in Asia is a relatively new concept. We are glad to read that Jennifer Brindisi has taken to it like a duck to water. By Jenn...

By Emma Dale. Posted in Blog

The curse of the swipe-right mentality

How important would you say your job is? Perhaps instinctively we’d say that the right job might fit below having a happy life, the right...

By Colette Brown. Posted in Blog