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☕️ In my experience Creative Circle and The Creative Group both charged 100% of my hourly rate (I found out much later, I made $25/hr they charged $50).
☕️ Never submit for anything along the lines of “immediate need for a presentation designer, must provide own laptop” because you are walking into a literal dumpster fire.
☕️ Always always always bump up your price when talking to them because they will try to talk you down. If the interview goes well but you don’t like the compensation you can still negotiate.
☕️ I can’t even tell you how many times they’ve submitted me for a role and never heard back on follow up so manage your expectations about getting an interview.
☕️ If you do get a gig through them their ‘benefits‘ are expensive and cover very little (although it’s been 3 yrs since I worked with them). Paid holidays only kick in after a certain threshold (I think 6 months?) and are only if you work over a certain amount of hours per week.
☕️ Like every staffing agency, if you have a good connection with the recruiter it makes all the difference.
☕️ I’ve found the companies that use them tend to be disorganized and value speed over quality. Make sure you ask about overtime and how many hours per week. One gig I worked was typical 9-5 40hrs but I would catch shit with the finance team if I put anything over 35 even when I worked through lunch and stayed late. My recruiter would not get involved and told me to just leave at 5 regardless if the work was done.
☕️ All that said, they got my foot in the door places I never would have been able to get on my own. I did some great work and worked with people who ended up being invaluable connections. They are a good option if you’re junior-mid level or have no network to fall back on. Hustle hard, get your folio pieces, make a good impression, and move on to bigger an better things.
It should be illegal, but that’s capitalism for ya. My former manager also disclosed the reason they couldn’t hire me directly was that my “buyout fee” was 30% of the salary offer.
10%? I wish. Places like that and The Creative Group can cut 60%.
They are still legit,especially when you are starting off but at a certain point you will be better off sending your book to CDs and networking with agency creative recruiters.
It’s actually more than 10%, from my experience it’s more 40-50% of what you would usually charge your freelance rate if you got hired without their “help”.
IF, you don’t have a wide network of friends/former colleagues it is not a bad way to get into to an agency or corporations. But, the better agencies won’t need to hire from Creative Circle’s pool of talent because they already have their contacts, unless they are in a major crunch.
If you know folks inside the agencies I strongly advise you to keep in touch with them to see if there are any openings and if you can connect with the CD or someone making those types of decisions rather than going through CC and their ilk.
Good luck!
Another thing to note is those staffing agencies typically have clauses that say if you work for xyz agency you can’t accept more work or full-time offer from xyz without them getting a cut. For 1 year.
This should be a pinned topic. If you search you’ll see this question about CC gets asked and answered approx every 2 weeks
They treat you like a number. They’ll submit you for roles with other numbers and won’t get back to you. They lowball you on salary. They’ll want to bring you in for an in-person interview to “get to know your background and interests.” Something that can totally be done on the phone. I did a 40-minute commute each way for a five-minute chat. I avoid Creative Circle like the plague
I met with them. I told them my rate (which I regularly make) and they basically laughed at me. Haven’t heard from them since except for giant blast emails that usually are looking for an entirely different role at a quarter of my rate.
It may depend on the city. In my experience, they basically bring you in, size you up, and then never call you back. There are countless examples of this in google reviews of their Dallas location, so it's not an isolated incident.
You constantly get spammed but none of the recruiters will ever call you back. I am convinced that they probably collect fees from companies and never really fill any roles. If you want to get any progress you are going to have to do your own networking and job application. Most recruiters are kind of time wasters in my opinion.
Companies should really stop engaging with these types of organizations as well as job seekers. They are a cancer on the professional world.