Navigating Your Job Search - Webinar
We know that navigating the job market can be hugely challenging right now - whether you're actively or passively looking. With greater competition, economic uncertainty, and evolving industry dema...
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Take Part: Salary Census 2025
The Creative Industries largest ever Salary Census is back – and we need your input to help to continue shape the future of work. The workplace is evolving faster than ever which is challenging fo...
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How to have discussions around your salary or day rate
Over the last 18 months, the cost-of-living crisis has meant that for many, the world has become more expensive, and our recently published Salary Census 2024 highlights that over half of the wo...
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Benchmark Your Salary or Day Rate - Major Players Salary Census 2024
The Creative Industries most comprehensive Salary Census is now live, with the latest insights and trends from across digital, marketing, product and creative.With over 3821 responses, and 146,000 ...
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Future of Work 2024
We find ourselves in the midst of an unparalleled transformation in our work culture and environment. The past few years have been marked by tectonic shifts in the world of work, fuelled by persi...
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Why Soft Skills Matter In The Creative Industries
In an era of unprecedented change and innovation, businesses are recognising the undeniable value of soft skills. These interpersonal and social abilities, while often intangible, prove to be imme...
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5 Minutes With... David Berlin, VP of Product, UNiDAYS
As part of our ‘5 Minutes With…’ series, we caught up with David Berlin, who launched DAZN across all platforms and the BBC iPlayer iPhone app, amongst others, during a career in product spanning ...
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Download our 2022 Salary Survey
Have your say in our 2024 CensusHow we work, the importance of work in our lives, and even what we mean by work are all being transformed at a pace which is challenging for both employees and busi...
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Creative Comeback UK 2022
We are delighted to be working with Creative Equals once again for this year’s Creative Comeback 2022, in partnership with D&AD and Diageo.In it's fourth year now, the Creative Comeback programme ...
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Jobseeker Toolkit
Making sure you feel comfortable and prepared for the job market can be difficult at any stage of your career, particularly as the industry evolves. You might find that there is a lot of conflictin...
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Breaking Into The Creative Industries
The UK’s creative industry alone, is worth £111.7 billion and its’ growth surge currently leads the UK workforce according to a study conducted last year. Despite this, breaking into the one of the...
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Tackling Your Lost Mindset
Are you feeling at a crossroads not knowing what direction to go in? Do you want to try something completely new but worry about wasting your time? Do you get overwhelmed by choice or the thought o...
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The Great Return: Maternity Leave Playbook
The Great Return in partnership with Bloom UK.Born out of a simple conversation between a group of Bloom parents, whom work in different parts of the communications industry, this Maternity Leav...
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Thinking About Going Freelance?
Most creative professionals, have at some point in their careers, considered the option of becoming a freelancer. Lured by the prospect of greater flexibility, being your own boss and dictating whi...
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Major Players Freelancer Information 2021
Thanks for choosing Major Players as your recruitment partner – we know that there’s a lot of information you need from us and vice versa so we’ve put together the below FAQs that should answer so...
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Right To Work In The UK
All UK employers are required by law to carry out initial right to work checks on each individual worker they intend to hire, in order to prevent illegal working.With recent changes in the UK's E...
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How to Negotiate a Pay Rise
One of the first things cut from businesses budgets when the Covid-19 pandemic struck was annual pay rises and bonuses. Our recent Salary Survey (which you can download here) highlighted that 4 in...
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Back To Work Toolkit - Returning Parents
For any parent, the prospect of going back to work after a period of “time-out” is daunting. Whether it’s been weeks or years, it can be both emotionally and logistically challenging, and there ar...
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Managing Mental Health In A Pandemic
So we are back here again... but this time we’re a little more prepared. In lockdown, our normal coping strategies might not be available to us, so this is the time to draw on our inner resources t...
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Employment Tips: How to Present Yourself on Social Media
With many recruiters screening social media to find the right employees, it’s now more important than ever to know how to present yourself on social media.Here’s a look at how social media plays i...
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