Do the Extraordinary

PwC Graduate Recruitment Campaign

CLIENT

PwC

MY ROLE

Creative Concept, Art Direction, Design

AGENCY

Blaze Advertising (WPP)

Overview

PwC, a prominent member of the ‘big four’ professional services organisations, was on a mission to expand its talent pool beyond the conventional accounting sphere. Focusing on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) students, PwC sought an employment campaign that not only appealed to this specific audience but also distinguished itself from the competition.

Solution

Leveraging PwC’s campaign theme ‘Transform ordinary. Do the extraordinary,’ I crafted a campaign that emphasised the fulfilling prospects of combining your skills with PwC.

The visual treatment paired two images together to create a distinctive look unique to PwC. This idea was devised by exploring scientific principle of light rays. When a light beam is passed through a crystal it becomes separated, splitting into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’ rays. A perfect analogy to describe the extraordinary career opportunities for this integrated campaign.

Photo Booth Activation

The photo booth activation continued to transform the ordinary. Students posed for a photo which layered their poses to show different sides of them in the same look as all the campaign communication material. This helped the students to internalise how PwC will enable them to achieve the extraordinary. The photos were shared through social channels.

Video

With the campaign video, we simply wanted to leave a powerful single-minded thought in the viewer’s minds: PwC offer a diverse group of people multiple career options, and the opportunity to achieve things out of the ordinary.

Result

The results of the campaign were pretty extraordinary too:

• 27% increase in graduate applications in half the campaign time of the previous year;
• 38% increase in STEM student applications;
• PwC Student Careers website during the campaign period had 39,069 unique website users and average session duration was also high with an average of 3 minutes and 43 seconds; and
• Photo booth activation created 20,855 impressions on social media.

Award

This PwC Graduate Recruitment Campaign was a finalist in Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) awards for ‘Design Effectiveness’.