CMA Recruitment Group
CMA is the South’s leading independent recruitment agency specialising in Accountancy & Finance, Executive and HR.
The brief
Founded in 1980, CMA has spent the past four decades building a reputation for its value-led and truly consultative approach to recruitment. They are highly experienced across four key divisions: Accountancy & Finance, Practice, Executive and HR.
Over time, CMA’s visual and strategic brand had become dated and their website was no longer offering a sufficient user experience. Instead, candidates and clients were faced with unclear messaging and an uninspiring website with clunky functionality – all of which could have a negative impact on enquiry and application numbers. To bring their brand up to speed they needed a reinvigorated identity and website to help them stand out in the competitive recruitment industry.
The solution
People are at the heart of CMA’s offering, so as part of our brand strategy work we carried out company-wide surveys and smaller, intimate workshops with management to understand how their team felt about the brand. From there we defined CMA’s core values and developed a new proposition and mission-vision statement. Taking a cue from the existing brand’s colour palette, we designed a unique circular brand marque, four new division logos and a refined group identity, pulling them together with a complementary and trustworthy deep blue.Â
With high targets for candidate applications the CMA website was in need of complete overhaul, with a focus on user experience for their core audiences: clients, candidates and future consultants. Some key improvements include a streamlined user journey, the integration of third party recruitment platforms and a beautifully simple, modern design with bespoke photography. An intelligent CMS gives the in-house team complete autonomy to make regular changes to the website.
The result
CMAs 45-strong workforce now feel aligned with the brand and have praised the new identity for its balance of modernity and heritage. The website now offers candidates a fast and painless job application process, which has resulted in a 240% uplift in applications in the first 6 months since launch*.
*Compared to the previous 6 month period.
Salad succeeded in strengthening our brand and created a modern identity that brings together all of our recruitment divisions. The new website gives our candidates an improved user experience and we’re excited to see how it impacts the number of applications we receive. We are delighted with Salads work and look forward to collaborating with them on future projects.
