LV= Launch New Recruitment Advertising Campaign

The investment, pensions and insurance group, LV=, have launched a clever new recruitment advertising campaign to spearhead a new recruitment drive. The campaign uses a mixture of groundbreaking technology and LV= very own staff.

LV= will be utilising a whole range of media to target new recruits including, online, press and outdoor advertising and social media sites such as Facebook. The advertising material will use real life LV= employees telling their own stories of what it’s like to work for the country.

Those interested in working for LV= are asked to take a picture of the poster and either email or text it to LV=, LV= will then use some fancy technology to identify which employee is featured on the poster and that employee will then call the interested potential recruit. This allows anyone interested in applying for a position to find out a little bit more about the company. This recruitment campaign is not only benefiting LV= though as 10p from every text goes to the Great Ormond Street hospital.

The recruitment drive will be launched at 150 sites across cities such as Exeter, Croydon, Bristol and Bournemouth. LV= are looking at recruitment at many of there 28 offices across the country with positions with in their insurance departments being a particular focus.

If successful LV= could start a trend for innovative recruitment advertising which looks to utilise its own work force and cutting edge technology in a big to attract the best candidates.

Footballers and Advertising

As the world cup kicks off, England had their first game on Saturday night and in true form managed to have the nation in states of tension, frustration and at times embarrassment. Robert Green, England’s chosen goal keeper, managed to let a goal in that even I could have saved and in the wake of his embarrassment, UK Advertising Agencies have told him that he should have a fairly good career in advertising, presumably being the butt of his own joke.

So, who else has managed to make a career in advertising?

Gareth Southgate, Chris Waddle and Stuart Pearce who all famously missed penalties in crucial matches gained roles in the Pizza Hut advertising campaign. Southgate was seen with a bag over his head in the restaurant whilst trying to eat a pizza, trying to hide his identity from fellow diners.

Gary Lineker was a household name for his football abilities and clean record on the pitch and become the face of Walkers crisps in ironic roles as Mr. Bad Guy, stealing crisps off unsuspecting crisp eaters in a series of very successful adverts.
Eric Cantona retired early from an extremely successful football career playing for Manchester United and his country, to become an actor. Along the way he starred in a fair amount of adverts, the most famous being his Nike commercials which featured a whole host of world class players in a dungeon playing football, he was the dungeon master hosting the tournament.

It will be interesting to see which players sign up to a UK Advertising Agent and start to appear in adverts as a result of their success or demise in the World Cup.