Having just sat down to write a post about MRA’s campaign
for 2013 undergraduate recruitment, I started to experience a strange feeling of déjà
vu. Then I realised that it was only in April of this year that I wrote a piece about the campaign for 2012 undergraduate recruitment. Rereading this, it
struck me that my intention had been to write something very similar regarding
the work for 2013 and that, quite frankly, seems a bit pointless. As I'm here now, I'll write a post about how some of our recent work fits into the bigger picture. But first, if you didn't see my post from April have a quick look now…
So, you’ll have seen that I wrote about the ‘University
of You’ campaign and described a series of activities and marketing
communications that we put together to generate applications for 2012
recruitment. I described how we planned the campaign, how we constructed it and
how we executed it. I finished by saying how successful it had been. And it was
very successful in a particularly tricky year, with the University of Chester
being one of the few universities in the North West to recruit to target.
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| On target in 2012 |
And it’s perhaps this success that has led us to do
something very similar to kick-start recruitment for 2013. While the materials
have changed and the presentation of our marketing communications has evolved,
the core messages of the campaign stay broadly the same. And as I wrote then,
that’s because the messages are true – Chester’s unique offering creates unique
graduates in a crowded and competitive graduate market place. It’s a strong
message and one that really seems to resonate with prospective students.
