Recruiting Staff?
ArtsProfessional Magazine – the UK’s most respected fortnightly publication aimed specifically at professionals working in the arts and cultural sectors is linked exclusively to ArtsJobFinder, a comprehensive recruitment and careers service . Advertising with ArtsProfessional comprises three separate but inter-linked and highly effective elements, providing advertisers with the very best potential for reaching the most appropriate candidates for their jobs. Its highly effective targeting means that advertisers can attract high quality applications, and not waste time and money trawling through a poorly-qualified field of candidates.
Recruitment Rates
ArtsProfessional recruitment advertising rate: £32.25 per single column centimetre (excl. VAT).
For example 10cm x 2 columns = 20 column centimetres, costing £645 + VAT.
For colour advertising, add 10%
Dimensions:
- Print area: 270mm (height) x 188mm (width)
- Single column width 34mm
- Two column width 72.5mm
- Three column width 111mm
- Four column width 149.5mm
- Five column width 188mm
Unsure of the size you need? E-mail us for a quote at ads@artsprofessional.co.uk or call Paul on 01223 200200.
Online Enhancements
Make sure your advert is seen by the widest possible audience by enhancing your ArtsJobFinder online listing.
Prices are based on the advert featuring on two sections of the website and all of their sub-sections until the closing date of applications. For full details call 01223 200200.
Button - 120 x 90 pixels
- £100 + £25 per added section
- £200 to feature on all eight sections of ArtsJobFinder website
Super Button - 120 x 150 pixels
- £150 + £35 per added section
- £300 to feature on all eight sections
Skyscraper - 120 x 300 pixels
- £300 + £50 per added section
- £500 to feature on all eight sections
Top Banner - 400 x 58 pixels
- Running at the top of each page (only one available)
- £900 - all sections of the website
The ArtsJobFinder website has eight sections: Homepage, Jobs, Tenders, Volunteers, Advertise, My jobs, Employers, Career Zone
One advert - three times the exposure
Job vacancies appear in:

1. ArtsProfessional
ArtsProfessional is the leading trade journal targeted at professional people working in the arts and cultural sectors. The magazine has a very high profile amongst professionals at all levels in this tightly-knit industry, with an extensive distribution and good reputation for high quality well-informed editorial.
- published fortnightly on alternate Mondays (24 issues per year)
- mailed to a growing list of subscribers: current circulation is around 7,000
- estimated total readership around 22,000*
Recruitment advertising has a very high visibility in a magazine that is read from cover-to-cover by many working in the sector. This means that employers can not only attract the attention of those actively seeking a new job, but also those who might be tempted to!
Jobs at all levels in an organisation can be successfully filled, as ArtsProfessional reaches many of the industry's most senior executives, as well as middle managers, junior staff and many students looking for their first jobs in the sector.

2. APe-mail
ArtsProfessional magazine is supported by APe-mail, a FREE weekly email carrying much-valued editorial material as well as a full listing of all recruitment adverts that have not yet reached their closing dates for applications
- sent only to legitimate registered subscribers – no spam
- currently goes to over 9,500 people, including some ArtsProfessional magazine readers, but also many others
- click-throughs take readers directly to specific adverts on the ArtsJobFinder website.
The high quality news coverage included in APe-mail means that registered subscribers continue to read it year-round. This means that adverts continually reach passive job browsers and active job seekers alike.

3. ArtsJobFinder
Recruitment advertising also appears on the ArtsJobFinder website, which can be viewed through the ArtsProfessional homepage but also accessed directly in its own right or through Internet search engines such as Google. ArtsProfessional Online’s advertisers have long benefited from an ever-growing number of visitors. Take a look at the stats.
Current web traffic averages nearly 47,000 visitors a month*. This is set to grow faster still with the wider exposure of the new website and the fact that registration on the site is completely free of charge.
A valuable range of editorial features ensures a continual flow of new visitors as well as repeat visits to the site, and advertisers benefit from exposure to international as well as UK-based potential candidates.
There are many special features on the site designed specifically to help advertisers manage the recruitment process efficiently, generate the best possible response to their ads, and monitor the impact of their recruitment campaign:
- ads can go online within 30 minutes of a booking being made
- automatic removal of adverts on the closing date for applications
- both text and logos appear online
- optional links to further information about a job or organisation
- option to upload job descriptions and person specifications if required
- job-seekers can email for further details using a click-through direct from an advert
- advertisers have instant access to web statistics revealing traffic to their own job adverts
- access to a continually updated database of salaries being offered in the sector
It’s easy to see why ArtsJobFinder offers the most cost effective recruitment advertising in the arts and cultural sector.
*monthly average number of unique visits to the ArtsProfessional website, January-August 2007 [Source: Urchin web statistics]




