What 200+ marketing placements taught me about hiring well
The recurring differences between a fast, durable hire and an expensive false start.
Read: What 200+ marketing placements taught me about hiring wellJosh Peacock · Founder and CEO
Josh Peacock
Founder and CEO of Search For Hire. Founder and CEO of SalaryGuide.com. Author of Autopilot Agency and host of the Agency Growth Club podcast.
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Earned by Search For Hire, the specialist recruitment business I founded and lead.
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Feedback from employers and candidates across our recruitment work.
From specialist agencies to global brands.
Search For Hire's client record includes Rankings.io, Semrush, Cadence and Sage.
Explore our clients and case studies5 yearsbuilding Search For Hire
200+marketing placements
SalaryGuidemarketing salary intelligence
150+Agency Growth Club interviews
About Josh Peacock
I am an Irish entrepreneur based in the Algarve. I started Search For Hire at 22 and have spent five years building it through the parts that rarely make a company update: months without paying myself, wrong hires, tight cash flow and the slow work of earning repeat business.
Today, Search For Hire recruits experienced SEO, Paid Media and Growth professionals for agencies and digital-first brands. The company was previously known as SEO For Hire and Paid Media Jobs. It has completed more than 200 placements and fills 95% of roles in under 28 days.
I founded SalaryGuide.com because people still make career and hiring decisions with weak salary information. Its career-intelligence platform helps marketers understand their market value, find suitable roles and prepare for salary negotiations.
I also host Agency Growth Club and wrote Autopilot Agency. Both grew from the same interest: how founders build teams that can make good decisions without routing everything through one person.
The work
Four projects, each looking at a different part of how companies hire, pay and develop people.
Company↗Data↗Podcast↗Book↗
Search For Hire
Specialist headhunting for SEO, Paid Media and Growth teams.
SalaryGuide.com
Salary and labour-market intelligence for marketing professionals and employers.
Agency Growth Club
Long-form conversations with founders about the decisions behind agency growth.
Autopilot Agency
A practical guide to building an agency team that can operate without the founder in every decision.
From the field
Notes built from placements, salary data and candid conversations with agency owners.
What I learned from 150 agency-founder conversations
The same operating problems appear at very different revenue levels.
Read: What I learned from 150 agency-founder conversationsHow AI is changing search marketing roles
Job descriptions moved first. Titles, pay structures and assessment methods are catching up.
Read: How AI is changing search marketing rolesPublic record
Commentary, research and interviews on hiring, pay, careers and search marketing.
Search Engine Land
Andrew Holland discusses my recruitment business and the development of Agency Growth Club.
Read the articleKIRO 7 / Stacker
My perspective on storytelling, judgement and the marketing skills that matter alongside AI.
Read the interviewAllwork.Space
My article on building career capital that compounds your market value.
Read the articleForbesMozSemrushIndependentCBSGrowth Memo
Working with Josh
A selection of feedback on my advisory work and Search For Hire, which has earned 83 Trustpilot reviews. More client stories are available on the consulting page.
“Extremely helpful in getting my recruiting business off the ground. Extremely knowledgeable on anything and everything recruiting.”
“Josh made the process feel seamless and efficient.”
Media and speaking
For interviews on hiring, salaries, search marketing or agency growth.
Email josh@searchforhire.com. A short media biography and source links are available on the press page.