Reports from Recruitment for Creatives and Creative Businesses

They are a best-of-breed boutique interactive design agency known for their world-class designs for their world-class brand clients. They continue to lead the way in interactive consumer experiences taking the concepts and technology to new heights.

Briefly
They’re looking for interactive creative leadership; someone to drive the internal and external vision of the work. Great contemporaneous conceptual design with a fresh, international flavor is key to what they want someone to bring to their mix.

Technorati Tags: creative, design, director, Flash, interactive, jobs, oc, web

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With an 18 year track record for developing powerful, innovative, and award-winning interactive work, this interactive consulting and design agency is known for their sophisticated, consumer-facing experiences. Internally, culture supports creativity, balance, and an overall focus on great frickin’ work. They’re owned by a huge media company, but remain autonomous in their creative work. Strong corporate leverage and stability.

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Their looking to bring on high quality, high performing, next stop creative. Someone senior who loves Flash as a creative and as a technical platform. The right someone will be able to articulate the whys of the work as much as the hows.

Technorati Tags: creative, design, interactive, la, Flash, web

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This is an internationally renowned, best-of-breed design consultancy. International, sophisticated, smart, innovative, groundbreaking are a few words that describe them.

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They’re an international, premiere design consultancy. They’re looking for an ACD of digital design leadership for their Austin studio with an emphasis on interface and experience design–beautiful aesthetics driven by research and strategy executed across multiple digital platforms. Genuine interest in culture-and-technology. Smart. Polished. Mentor and develop others, and work on programs, leading when necessary, and always collaborating.

This is an internationally renowned design consultancy that sets the bar for excellence. International, sophisticated, smart, innovative, groundbreaking are a few words to describe them.

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They’re an international, premiere design consultancy. They’re looking for senior CD of brand in their NY or SF studio. This leadership role will work with firm management to define and set the pace for their brand offering. Bring brand thinking to their Fortune 100 clients, and integrate with their other disciplines internally. Smart. Polished. Mentor and develop others, and work on programs, leading when necessary, and always collaborating and growing.

This entire Assignments entry is dedicated to one client. He’s a lovely gentleman, so I thought it fitting.

Firm/Organization: Social Media Startup
Location: Hollywood, CA
Miscellany: Solid management team, funding, growth, and record. Environment and culture built on collaboration, problem-solving, and pop-culture.

Click below to see the position descriptions, namely Senior Interactive Designer, Interactive Designer, Flash Engineer, Web/DHTML Engineer, Web/Server Engineer, Client Engineer, Database Engineer, Network Operations Engineer, Software Development Engineer, and Software Test Engineer.

Technorati Tags: creative, design, development, interactive, technical, web

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Here’s some highlights of our current assignments. Sharing is caring. Not your thing? Perhaps you can tell us about someone. Check out our referral policy.

Executive Producer

Firm/Organization: Top-tier interactive boutique
Location: San Francisco, CA
Miscellany: Leadership role in a studio developing interactive marketing experience high profile, consumer brands.
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Information Architect

Firm/Organization: Top-tier interactive boutique
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Miscellany: The agency works on luxury brand interactive marketing and application development. Strong culture of learning and development.
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Account Supervisor

Firm/Organization: Top-tier interactive advertising agency
Location: San Francisco, CA
Miscellany: Holding company agency looking for on-the-ground account leadership with their fashion giant account.
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Associate Creative Director

Firm/Organization: Top-tier design firm
Location: Austin, TX
Miscellany: Renowned multi-discplinary design firm seeks expert digital design leadership. World class design innovation, clients, and corporate culture.
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Technorati Tags: advertising, architect, austin, creative, design, director, executive, information, interactive, jobs, la, producer, web

A great, sometime humorous, list from hrworld.com: Throughout time, people everywhere have engaged in the great tradition of complaining about the workplace. But as a boss or an HR manager, how do you know when job complaints are general venting and when there is really something wrong?

We especially like No. 24: The only way someone can get promoted is if a senior staff member dies.

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Hilarious font abuse revealed from Goodie Bag.

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With the abundant doom-and-gloom forecast for the advertising business, perhaps “they” look only at the big shops. What about the small and medium shops? Marc Brownstein describes how big-time marketeers reconsidering their spend are moving dollars to smaller shops.

Hire the best talent. … Bring in the best talent out there, and make sure they are a cultural fit. You don’t want them bringing any bad habits from the big shops with them.

Why? Why are big advertisers looking for smaller, independent shops to partner? Why is Frito-Lay heading off from parent company PepsiCo’s holding company Omnicom for indepedent Strawberry Frog? According to Mr. Brownstein, smaller shops “are more nimble,” and “can attract better talent these days” since they “don’t have cultures that are tied to Wall Street’s quarterly demands.”

We agree. That’s People Power. Office space, computers, desks, dogs, video game consoles, coffee, beer … they’re all for not if you don’t have the right people in place. Smaller agencies need recruiting strategy more than any to attract folks away from the big shops’ gravitational pull. They need to define differentiators that will constitute their positioning that matters to the people they want to attract. Do you have what good people want? Are you a desirable employer agency? Consider these top considerations of candidates:

• Kind of work
• Quality of life
• Leadership

What is your agency’s profile? How well articulated is your profile? How is your profile reaching prospective candidates? How well are new hires’ expectations satisfied six months after they start? A year later?

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From Forbes.com. This says it all, and not just for MS:

For years, Microsoft prided itself on promoting from within. But industry experts say that the pace of innovation and competition in recent years has forced the company to bring in outside talent with fresh ideas.The software giant names Disney and GM veteran Tony Scott as its new CIO.

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