The fastest and simplest way to recruit digital marketers based on their proven skills

How simulation helps recruiters

1. Provides an at-a-glance view of a candidate's full range of skills demonstrated in a realistic and data-rich environment in areas such as SEA, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, Copywriting, Strategy and Planning
2.  Ensures a fair, unbiased approach to hiring - by having the same evaluation regardless of location, timezone, cultural or language barriers
3. Enables the creation of highly detailed and realistic job simulations that reveal a candidate's understanding and affinity for a company or cause. This allows testing collaboration, decision-making style and understanding of nuances in multiple contexts.

How simulation helps candidates

1. Provides a predictable and trusted system to carry out job interviews and role assessment - this removes bias in interviewers entirely by using user generated data to inform candidate selection.
2.  Improves initial perception towards potential employer - by presenting a modern, high-performance recruiting tool which works time after time.
3. Allows for vast initial information uptake on company and its operations - they say you can learn more about a person in one hour of play than in one year of work. The same goes for a company, as candidates can acquire more knowledge on a company's operations and are more likely to ask questions and propose initiatives in a game-like environment.

The majority of businesses are prioritizing one to a few customer acquisition channels, as these channels typically generate the majority of their lead generation results. (a good list of various digital marketing acquisition channels can be found here: https://growthmethod.com/acquisition-channels/

As an example, Simbound is now focused on: Publicity/PR, SEO, Content Marketing, and Business Development with forays into ads, email and other platforms/environments.

So, what happens when a business wants to take on new customer acquisition channels?

These are basically the only few options available:

1.         Marketing starts exploring on its own signing up for various services or platforms, but that's not always the best move. It's easy to invest too much time and money at the beginning and then find out that it's not worth it.


2.         Management is looking to hire the people with the proven skills to continue building the brand. These could be from an agency, a freelancer, or a new hire. The hiring process here is often not smooth: The new hire might have been chosen as a result of an subjective assessment, or an agency was contracted because they had the best pitch.

In the case of new hires there can be cases where management is unable to evaluate the candidate's abilities in an objective manner using their past results which then leads to a lack of trust in the new hire’s ability to handle essential marketing processes. This often comes with restricting access to critical customer data stored in the CRM, CMS, and to other company assets or ongoing projects. The new hire could have utilized this data to better understand the business operations, potentially leading up to better alignment and avoiding issues with communication and appraisal. 

The perfect digital marketing hiring platform does not exis..

The good news is that there is a solution to almost all of these problems! A platform such as the Simbound solution, which has been perfected through years of research and development and has received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback, can help business stakeholders get a clear picture of their candidates' abilities in the easiest possible way.

A candidate's profile explained:

1. The candidate's information, including their country, school, and the date they finished the simulation, is shown here.
   
2. When completing tasks in any one of the six different simulations of Simbound a tag will be displayed next to their profile image. Clicking on this one will open up their results for that simulation along with other details.
   
3. The number of decisions, the amount of profit, and the candidate's ranking in their course are displayed, enabling recruiters to swiftly assess a candidate's performance at a glance.

The profile shows the results of each digital marketing campaign performed by the candidate within the simulation. Using these results the candidate will demonstrate their progress and commitment to responding to various situations in the simulation environment.

In the below example taken from the Website Building Simulation results one can observe how the candidate's strategy shifts during the second round towards obtaining more Organic traffic for their in-simulation website. The multitude of data published by the simulation gives birth to ample opportunities for discussion and assessment of up to date trends and topics.

The Social Media Marketing simulation section provides both numerical results data and a portfolio of creative assets. This allows for a quick assessment of the candidate's complete skills and abilities profile and potential fit for the role.

(follow this link to a demo profile to explore more: https://marketingsquads.com/demo-profile/)

With Simbound's expansion into recruiting through the Marketing Squads platform, we are introducing an innovative platform that can help companies of all types. It provides a no-risk environment where stakeholders set out to build an environment that provides a testing ground for different strategies and operations performed by marketers from all kinds of backgrounds. We want to help you assess how well and how quickly a candidate can adapt to the demands of a new role. This is an amazing and revolutionary way to do recruiting!

Get in touch now to find out more

Best of all? The Marketing Squads service is free for both companies and candidates for a limited time only. Please note that utilizing the Simbound simulation bears separate costs.

Curious to learn more about how you could take your recruiting to the next level? Tell us more about your company and how it is currently handling Digital marketing recruiting or outsourcing and we will recommend you some of the best candidates available on our platform today. With some 100 candidates as of April 2025 (and that number continuing to grow) we are certain we can find you with the best match for your own business.

Please note that Terms and restrictions apply, you will need to fill out a form detailing your business operations and recruiting needs upon reaching out.