I know Creative Circle sucks but desperate times and whatnot. Is it just the lowballing on salary? Should I not even bother?

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If you’re into not making any money and having empty promises and people ghost you, go for it

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Not just the lowballing b/c they take almost half of your earnings. The fee they charge the employer is ridiculous so the employer would never hire you FT if they wanted to.

Also, if you get a gig through CC, you can’t approach the agency on your own for something like 1 or 2 years.

Search Creative Circle in Fishbowl. There are are numerous threads dedicated to their predatory practices

The only companies who use them to recruit don’t know any better

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I’ve been feeling the same about The Creative Group and Creative Circle. Figured I’d go ahead and talk to people at TCG to see what they can offer and haven’t heard back from them with the classic paperwork they said they’d send lmao.

Didn’t know if I would have officially done anything with them but haven’t gotten the chance to anyway.

Definitely seems like they eat a huge portion of freelance pay, and take a good chunk in a fee of a salaried position. BUT it doesn’t seem like there is even anything out there that they could help with right now anyway.

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