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Keeping recruitment moving through disruption.

Modernizing recruitment and communications as COVID moved familiar in-person experiences online.

DisciplineRecruitment & communications
Period2020–2021 results
CollaborationFour-person recruitment team

A sudden change in how people connected

Recruitment had relied heavily on in-person activity, billboards and school pamphlets. Early COVID disrupted those channels, while examinations that had traditionally taken place in person suddenly needed to move online.

Build the online pathway

I redesigned the dated website and worked directly with the four-person recruitment team to adapt their efforts to online seminars. Advertising shifted toward digital and social channels, creating a practical way to reach prospective students during the disruption.

AdvertisingBillboards and pamphlets → digital and social
RecruitmentIn-person sessions → online seminars
WebsiteDated presentation → refreshed digital experience
CommunicationsExplain and support the remote exam transition

Maintain confidence in examinations

I helped organize the remote examination transition and led messaging to accounting firms about the credibility and integrity of the assessment process. The communications needed to explain a significant change clearly while maintaining confidence in the qualification.

Two years of enrollment growth

Enrollment increased 36% in 2020, followed by a further 23% in 2021. Together, that represents approximately 67% growth over the 2019 baseline.

2019 baseline
100
2020
136
2021
167.28
Enrollment index, not student counts. 2019 = 100; 2020 = 136; 2021 = 167.28. Organizational results supported by the marketing and recruitment work, not attributed solely to marketing.

What this work demonstrates

Marketing leadership can mean helping an organization change how it operates. This project combined digital execution, close collaboration with recruiters and clear communications around a sensitive transition.

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