This week on The Marketing Week Podcast we’re tackling marketing’s early talent problem.

With fewer routes into the industry and a lack of support for apprenticeships, are aspiring marketers being shut out before they even get started?

Marketing Week's 2025 Career & Salary Survey revealed just 15.9% of companies operate a marketing apprenticeship, citing the level of resource required and a lack of senior buy-in as key barriers.

In this episode, deputy managing editor and head of insight Charlotte Rogers and senior reporter Molly Innes are joined by editor-in-chief Russell Parsons to dig into what is holding the industry back from opening up different ways of entering the industry and its problem with representation.

The episode features an interview with Cerys Gardiner, former apprentice and marketing manager at Medichecks, who details the benefits to businesses of hiring marketing apprentices.

We also speak to Brixton Finishing School's head of adventure Jo Royce and Simone Johnson, head of new business and strategic partnerships, who discuss the work they're doing to support early talent pathways.

Does marketing have an early talent problem?

When legislative changes meant that Dan Banko (’96) lost easy access to raw materials for his final arts thesis, which focused on sculpting with welded materials, he had to think fast and switch his focus. Since then, he has developed an approach to photography and storytelling that pairs his classical training with marketing to help elevate any brand. 

Dan Banko

Heading into university with a clear idea of what you want your future career to look like can lead to some amazing opportunities. But if you’re willing to follow your heart, you may find yourself taking on roles that never felt possible. In this week’s episode of Unconventional, Maria (‘14) tells the story about how her dream to be a psychotherapist didn’t always include being an entrepreneur – and how she wouldn’t change a thing now that it does. 

Maria Orrego

We dissect the recent Economist article asking if the MBA degree is worth it after a decline in job placement rates at top schools

The Economist Dis On MBAs

edie’s editor Matt Mace returns to the Green Room, where the edie team sits down with the biggest names in corporate sustainability to gain valuable insight an lessons, find out what gets them out of bed each morning and what trends they see on the horizon. Our special guest for this episode is Suzanne Lindsay-Walker, VP of sustainability at aluminium giant Novelis.

Suzanne joined Novelis in 2021, having previously spearheaded corporate sustainability strategies for delivery firm UPS, logistics giant Brambles and retailers Kroger and Petsmart.

She is currently responsible for the delivery of Novelis 3x30 – an ambitious integrated sustainability and business growth strategy covering process decarbonisation, the circular economy and first-mover investments in new technologies.

She shares her views on moving sustainability into the strategic functions of business, and her learnings on remaining resilient and cutting through the noise.



In edie's Green Room with Novelis's VP of sustainability, Suzanne Lindsay-Walker

Dan shares his unconventional path into marketing, how he built a brand team from scratch, and why empathy and storytelling are critical in today's fast-moving marketing landscape.

Marketing Leadership 101: Building Teams & Brands | Growth League Podcast ft. Dan Smith

In this week’s episode of The Rowbo Show, we dive into a topic that many people face but few openly talk about: the imaginary shame of unemployment. Join us as we challenge the negative stigma often attached to being between jobs and discuss why it’s essential to embrace this phase as part of the larger career journey. Unemployment isn’t a setback—it’s an opportunity. We explore the surprising benefits of this time off, from recharging your mental and emotional batteries to reevaluating your goals and passions. Whether you’ve recently lost a job or are simply in transition, we’ll share how to turn unemployment into a period of personal growth and renewal, so you’re better prepared for your next opportunity. Tune in for an uplifting conversation that reshapes how we think about this critical phase of life and encourages listeners to embrace the race, rather than fear it.

Hosts: Mark Rowbottom, Joe Moralez

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The Rowbo Show | #002 - Unemployment Shame

This week we discuss social mobility and closing the gap on careers in science and technology for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. With me to explore some of the issues is James Adeleke (FRSA), founder of Generation Success and co-opted member of the Education Board at the City of London Corporation.

Careers in STEM for young people, regardless of their background - James Adeleke

Marketing has a big pay gap problem and for many people it's getting worse.

Exclusive new data from Marketing Week’s 2025 Career & Salary Survey shows the marketing profession has an ethnicity pay gap for full-time workers of 13.3%, up sharply from 8.5% in 2024 – based on a sample 82.9% of whom identify as white.

Marketing's gender pay gap has also widened. Female marketers are paid on average 17.8% less than their male peers. This figure is based on a sample of more than 3,500 marketers – 59.9% of whom are female – and is up on the 16% pay gap revealed in 2024.

Analysis of the data also finds a socio-economic pay gap for full-time workers of 15.3%, flat compared to last year’s figure at 15.9%. Furthermore, 74% of the sample identify as middle-class, up on the 70.1% figure reported in 2024.

On this week's podcast, deputy managing editor and head of insight Charlotte Rogers, managing editor Lucy Tesseras and senior reporter Molly Innes dig into what is causing these pay gaps to be so persistent.

Meanwhile, marketing's recruitment challenges continue. From drawn out interview processes to ghosting and mental health pressures, the jobs wheel isn't turning as it used to and is having a detrimental impact on many. Listen to find out more.

Marketing's pay gap problem and recruitment challenges

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Managing a contingent workforce, including contract and temporary workers, poses significant challenges for businesses. With complex needs, companies often engage multiple contractors, putting pressure on HR departments focused on full-time employees.

Managed Solutions Providers (MSPs) can help by offering recruitment support, workforce strategy advice, and assistance with managing contingent labor.

So, how can businesses determine if an MSP is right for them? What benefits and challenges do MSPs present, and how can these be effectively managed?

In this edition of Staffing Strategies Simplified, we speak with Anthony Breen, Business Development Director at NES Advantage Solutions, who shares insights into the advantages of MSPs and how they enhance contingent labor management for evolving businesses in Europe.

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How Managed Service Providers Support the European Energy Market with Anthony Breen | Staffing Strategies Simplified

As more voices, businesses and initiatives pick up the conversation on the importance of tackling the climate crisis, this new page acts as a central home to edie's #SustyTalks and other upcoming special audio features.

Building on the success of edie’s long-standing Sustainability Uncovered podcast series, edie Extra is the place to find all the in-depth conversations with sustainability professionals about sustainability professionals.

From discussing the hot topics in the sustainability thought to retellings of how people got into the industry, edie Extra is the one-stop location for all of edie’s extra multimedia content.

Whether you’re a business leader, climate expert, environmental professional, youth activist, or just someone with a passion for all things sustainability and climate action – this page is a must-have for your bookmarks to keep up to date with latest sustainability developments.

Marketing Week is one of the UK’s most respected business titles and a trusted and authoritative voice on the marketing industry. Listen to our award-winning editorial team discuss key topics with leading industry voices. From exploring what's next in career development and leadership, to the future of B2B, Marketing Week takes listeners behind the scenes of the world's most effective marketing. 

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NES Fircroft provides key recruitment and industry insights into the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Power & Renewable Energy, Mining and Life Science industries as well as providing the technical personnel that serve them with career advice from our dedicated experts. 

Through our Engineeringpro podcast, candidates, job seekers and the current industry workforce can learn more about job opportunities, the industry, and some of the key news and developments. And, from our Staffing Strategies Simplified podcast, we look more at the industries we work in and how our clients can maximise their efficiency when hiring and retaining talent. 

Brought to you by NES Fircroft, an award-winning workforce solutions specialist, our podcasts exist to help businesses attract and retain the candidates they need to drive their business goals forward, as well as helping technical personnel to advance their careers. 

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The Foundation for Science and Technology podcast - exploring issues of science, technology and innovation with experts from government, parliament, industry and the research community.

We want to know when, how and why our guest small business owners experienced growth and scale. Regardless of how that growth was initiated, we are interested to hear about how it happened, what they did to handle it and their tips and tricks for re-creating it based on experience.

We also key in on stories about Team Leadership and Personal High Performance Habits. We want to hear about both, based on our guest's experience because oftentimes success here serves as the foundation for business growth.

New tracks tagged #Careers