JWT MEA Careers & Recruitment – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

JWT MEA Careers & Recruitment – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How to I apply?
We are delighted you wish to apply to JWT MEA. We have developed a
special portal to make this happen as efficiently as possible. This portal
includes all job and internship vacancies across the region.
Please go to http://careers.jwtmea.com and complete the application
process for your relevant job posting.
Do make sure you answer the questions thoroughly, as all the details
requested are vital to the agency’s screening process.
Can I apply for more than one position?
You may certainly apply for more than one position if you feel your
experience and competencies match the specifications. However, as you
can imagine, marketing yourself to JWT with a unique set of skills and
passion for a particular discipline is more focused than selling yourself
across a broad selection of positions available.
What do I do if you don’t specify a relevant position for me?
We pride ourselves on having a corporate culture that people want to
belong to, and many people build long-standing and successful careers in.
This means we rarely have openings for every type of position at a given
time, even though we are active in many markets.
If you cannot see a position that your skills and career ambitions match
perfectly, always keep an eye on our Facebook page, the careers portal
and our website for any suitable vacancies.
How can I learn more about you company before my interview?
That’s a great question!
There are many ways you can find out more about us – here are a few
links in addition to jwt.com that should get you started
- JWT MEA has a LinkedIn page and you can join here
http://linkd.in/1mek5ic
- JWT MEA Facebook page for up-to-the-minute news on our region, the
people in it, their new work and business wins, our thought leadership
papers and much much more
- JWT MEA Youtube channel showcases some of our award winning
work, both recent and the golden oldies
- wpp.com is an excellent resource for understanding the holding
company we are part of, our sustainability practices, vision for the
future and a whole lot more!
Where are JWT’s offices?
Globally we have offices all over the world servicing our global, regional
and local clients.
In the Middle East and Africa our footprint is constantly expanding as we
develop more opportunities in emerging markets and partner with clients
who are doing the same.
Eight major hubs help us provide efficient and streamlined services for
our clients: the Levant, the Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, North
Africa, South Africa, West Africa and East Africa.
Within each of those hubs we have important teams working in separate
markets handling key global, regional and local clients.
Because our footprint is ever growing, it is best to check our JWT MEA
profile on jwt.com, which encompasses information about all the different
teams we have.
I am an experienced, candidate, do I need to be an award winner to apply?
Our priority is to provide communication-based business solutions for
our clients that drive effective results and a significant ROI, and obviously
if we do this in a world-class fashion, awards will follow.
Pioneering creativity and strategic thinking is part and parcel of our
success story, and for which we have won many awards.
What we are looking for is excellence in strategic thinking, creative
application, pioneering ideas with scale, collaboration and innovation.
If you can demonstrate you have those qualities, we would love to hear
from you.
What languages are essential?
The language of our clients and therefore our agency’s internal
communications across the world is English – it is essential you can read,
write and understand the English language.
In our MEA markets, external communication for our clients will include
(depending on the market) Arabic, French, Afrikaans and Swahili amongst
others.
The function you apply for may require a certain degree of skill in one or
more of these languages. Please check the job posting carefully.
Will I get the opportunity to move around the world?
At JWT we believe in leveraging technology, to work in seamless teams
that cut across geographical borders and agency practices.
That may mean working in virtual teams with other talent in other offices
on global or regional accounts.
On other occasions, that may mean working in another office for a certain
period of time.
As you develop your career at JWT, opportunities will arise where it
might be possible for you to move abroad with the company.
Do you offer training?
We fully believe in the importance of training and continuous
development and offer different kinds of solutions to meet our peoples’
needs.
Training for talent is based on the need to perfect existing skills or
acquire new ones, based on evaluations.
Some of the trainings are bespoke interactive sessions with live briefs
from our clients, and we also use online tools to help our people develop.
I was unsuccessful applying for a job before, may I apply again?
We are sorry you were unsuccessful in applying for a job at JWT
previously and hope you found an interesting position where you could
learn and develop your skills in the meantime. Our recruitment process is
highly competitive.
This should not deter you from applying again – we would love to hear
how you have progressed and now have the right caliber of expertise to
fulfill the requirements of a given vacancy.
SOME ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION
What is JWTs history?
In 2014 JWT is celebrating 150 years of continuous business success.
JWT is the company that pioneered the advertising industry.
We now call that industry, marketing communications, due to how our
business and that of our clients, has evolved over the years.
In the MEA region specifically, we established an office in Alexandria,
Egypt in 1927, and an office in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1928!
JWT has a history of ‘firsts’ – what are they?
As pioneers in our industry, we didn’t just stop at being the agency that
got things going 150 years ago!
We continuously look for new and engaging ways to have conversations
with consumers about our clients’ brands.
Of course, that also means constantly striving to keep our process on the
cutting-edge of success, ever driving new and more effective results for
our clients.
A few of these ground-breaking ideas are listed below.
- the first agency to open an office in another country, JWT London
1899
- the first agency to hire a female creative director, Helen Landsdowne,
1908
- the first agency to use film stars as brand endorsers, Lux in 1929
- the first agency to make a radio commercial, 1933
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the first agency to make a TV commercial, 1939
the first agency to develop the Account Planning discipline, with
Stephen King 1968
- the first agency to get Kit Kat in space 2012
For a much more detailed look at our history of firsts, please visit the
historical timeline on jwt.com