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Avantages

Occasional freelance gigs onsite and offsite

Inconvénients

They have unprofessional people on their team who treat others disrespectfully and with rudeness; Recruiters which don’t know the difference between certain technical positions. Additionally if you work with a difficult client they won’t have your back because they just care about money, regardless of the facts. Judgement made on race and they also don’t pay the highest in the city;

Conseils à la direction

- Treat contractors with respect and value your employees; - Be more obejctive; - Analyze phone calls and email correspondence to help your recruiters improve and certify if what they say is actually how the story went down - Educate employees to treat contractors and freelancers with respect - Make it harder for dishonest manipulator clients to get away with not paying by making someone from the head office verify accuracy...

Avantages

They apparently do have hiring-side clients and will call you with opportunities. but...

Inconvénients

I am a very senior designer in a field that is in demand. When I told them my rate, a rate I was currently making with a current client that I got through another recruiter than Creative Circle, Creative Circle was only willing to offer me 50% of that rate! When I asked how they could expect a person with such experience to accept that, the Creative Circle recruiter said to me "well you will be out of work soon [my contract...

Conseils à la direction

Treat your talent with respect and pay them market or higher rates otherwise close up shop and find a job yourself so you aren't mistreating people with your insane business model.

Avantages

Nice people to deal with at the start. Great location.

Inconvénients

They push for freelance/contract work as that can get companies coming back. They say they know a lot of companies that they can set you up with, but they don't. They sell to employers freelance and contract and the benefits of it. It's killing the market for full time workers.

Conseils à la direction

You need to stop pushing freelance or contract work.

Avantages

The freelance jobs are with cool agencies. The duration of their freelance and contract gigs vary from days to weeks to months, even fulltime. Say no when you aren't interested and they will still consider you for all others. The recruiters are to the point, and great to deal with. They put personality and humour into it, while delivering all the details about a role. I've been working with them for many months.

Inconvénients

They might tack on a larger markup than other agencies, but hey, they call me often with new opportunies that I wouldn't find on my own.

Conseils à la direction

It would be nice if we could accumulate a paid day off or two, the more time we freelance through them.

Avantages

The freelance positions they locate are with professional agencies. This may lead to better things. They handle marketing, payment and overall communications well. They have found me more work in past year at a higher rate than I was able to myself, which is obviously a good thing.

Inconvénients

Agencies see you as an expensive fix for a problem they are not staffed up for. This is because, as a client said to me, "CC adds a pretty good fee on top of your hourly rate". Be prepared to face pressure on this.

Conseils à la direction

Adding some benefits to the employment contract would be nice and would win my loyalty for the long-term.

Avantages

Uncapped commission, fun co workers and environment

Inconvénients

Very structured and little flexibility here

Avantages

This has been fantastic so far. The people here are extremely helpful and patient with learning their system. I informed them of my desire for this to become permanent and they had me apply and are going to setup an interview. I love it here and can't thank Laura enough for finding this job for me. It took us a couple years in between placements but I think she found me a home. I can't express my thankfulness to her for...

Inconvénients

None come to mind at this time

Conseils à la direction

Keep doing what you're doing and give Laura S. a promotion and raise!

Avantages

- Initial contact with Creative Circle, to sending opportunities, to landing interviews is really fast. Almost overwhelmingly fast, but that's a good thing. - Forwards lots of opportunities and are hands-on with trying to find the best fit for you. - Great initial first interview with your recruiter. Also a really good opportunity to talk about your work — great practice! - Ended up with a good full-time position...

Inconvénients

- Incessantly call, even if they know you currently work a full-time position. Sometimes it's not easy for a potential candidate to drop what they're doing in the middle of a work day to speak on the phone. - Really advocate for contract/freelance work when you specifically ask for a full-time position, and then try to make contract work sound romantic by saying that contract work actually gives you more freedom to look...

Conseils à la direction

Ask your creative recruits when a good time to call is. I understand that when an opportunity arrises at a good time for YOU, it might be a good time for you YOU to call ME. For some individuals, it's not so easy to just pick up the phone while in the middle of an open office (with no available space to go and speak privately). Also listen to what your creative recruits want: If we specifically ask for full-time opportunities,...