Creative staffing agencies
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- UKV0
IMO, recruiters are loathed on both ends. By the agency, because they overhype every candidate, they really dont know the business and will not be around long: Next stop, insurance sales or mortgages!!! Hated by the creative, because of the points above.
If you are relying on a recruiter, you are simply doing it wrong. You have every tool a recruiter does, and the advantage of representing yourself and what you'd like to do. Get off the job boards, and get out and start meeting CD's and Design Directors and start doing good old fashioned portfolio reviews. Once you get a handle on what the recruiter marks you up at, undercut them by 10 or 20% if you have a hard time closing work (you'll still make far more). /endrant
- randommail0
Wouldn't you just use the staffing company to help you get the foot in the door? And eventually work with the client directly?
- akrok0
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if you do that, you most likely breaking the contract you signed.- even after the contracted gig is long finished?randommail
- carianoff0
My wife worked for Xxxxxx agency and she actually built relationships with people. There are a many people she worked with that she actually gave them a career, building them personally from the ground up. Helping them build their book so she could pitch them where they wanted to go. But I do understand that she was a rarity. So don't write off any of these places, you may come across a person who is willing to work like that for you.
- NoFavorite0
Do any of these staffing agencies list developers? Or is that too future for now?