Profiles Creative are a boutique recruitment agency specialising in all things agency! Whether you are looking for creative, technical or client services candidates, we can help to provide the right candidate for your needs. Check us out today!
2. OUR STORY
Established for 30 Niche Creative
30 Niche Creative
over 10 years Recruiters
Recruiters
We cover: Mirror the
Freelance, structure of a
Permanent, Interim Creative Agency
3. OUR COVERAGE...
With digital’s ongoing reinvention, keeping pace with the most up-to-date skills and talent can leave you feeling
trapped in a game of musical chairs. For us as recruiters, it’s a challenge. But it’s one we have mastered. By
internally mirroring the structure of a creative agency we can deliver effectively to each business unit across
CREATIVE, TECHNICAL and CLIENT SERVICES. We work with agencies ranging from global full-service providers to
niche specialists across digital, experiential, branding, packaging and B2B.
Here’s just a glimpse of the roles we recruit for across our three core areas:
CLIENT SERVICES TECHNICAL CREATIVE
Client Services Director Front-end Developer Creative Director // Digital + Print
Group Account Director Flash Developer Art Director // Digital + Print
Digital Project Manager .NET Developer Designer // Digital + Print
Project Manager PHP Developer Flash Designer
Producer Symfony Developer Motion Graphics Designer
Senior Account Director Zend Developer IA & UX Designer
Account Director Coldfusion Developer Branding Designer
Senior Account Manager Ruby on Rails Developer Packaging Designer
Account Manager Mobile Web Developer Creative Artworker
Senior Account Executive Mobile App Developer Visualiser (Hand / Mac)
Account Executive iPhone Developer Retoucher
Business Development Android Developer Copywriter // Digital + Print
Marketing (all levels) Tablet Developer Studio & Production Manager
4. METHODOLOGY
Database a Advertising aHeadhunting
ETHOS
We build our recruitment around you. By putting you at the core of everything we do, we’ve
developed a recruitment style that reflects the diversity of your needs. The result? The most
comprehensive service you can find from a creative agency recruiter with an emphasis on
QUALITY rather than quantity.
TOOLS
Database - out of 840 CVs that come into the business weekly, 14% are approved to make it onto our
specialised database
Our Website - expert use of SEO/ PPC = more targeted candidates driven to us
Job Boards - specialist advertising on Brand Republic, Creative Pool, Guardian Jobs, The Ladders,
Reed, Jobsite, Monster. Using the right board for the right job!
Social Media - Linkedin and Twitter proactively used to map the market and headhunt the best
candidates
5. WHY US...?
We’re made for agencies because...
1. QUALITY 2. COVERAGE 3. TENACITY
Networking. Networking. We cover needs from half a day What do you look for in your
Networking. It’s not just what you to half a lifetime. Whether you employees? Commitment.
know anymore but WHO you need someone today, tomorrow Passion. Creativity.
know. Luckily for us, you can or yesterday, we have an army Perseverance. SPARK
meet a lot of people in 10 years! of freelance talent poised to act.
This is what we also look for in
Our depth of professional network, We aim for a 3 day turnaround our consultants. With 30% of
built on a decade of thorough on permanent positions and take our consultants coming from the
sourcing and pre-screening as little as 15 minutes to fill your industries which they place into,
methods (70% of our candidates freelance needs - less time than they have first-hand experience
are personally headhunted), it takes to drink your morning of the skill sets required to
means that we can offer you the coffee! successfully fill your roles.
very best in creative talent.
With a network of expertise ranging Couple this with individuals who
You see, we believe from traditional to emerging truly have an interest for the
wholeheartedly that you are the disciplines, mainstream to market sectors they cover and
company you keep which is why rare-breed skills, whatever you’re believe in good practice and
we keep in with the best so that seeking, we have the means to what do you get? Commercial
you can too. provide it. recruiters with a conscience...
yes indeed!
6. RECENT SUCCESSES...
“We have been working with Profiles Creative for a long time, and they’ve never let us down. From the
creative perspective, they understand our particular needs in every single brief. Their portfolio of creative
people is really extensive and diverse... it is very reassuring knowing that you can pick up the phone at
any time and have Profiles Creative at the end of the line working with you as a business partner.”
Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare
“I have worked with Oliver on a number of vacancies that I’ve needed support on. I really enjoy work-
ing with him, he’s full of energy and dynamic in his response. He really takes the time to understand his
client’s business and provides great candidates as a result. Through Oliver’s work, Profiles Creative is
top of my PSL.”
People and Culture Manager, Portas
Jack Morton - Account Director Saatchi and Saatchi - Senior Art Director
McCann Erickson - Digital Project Manager Euro RSCG - Creative Artworker
Amplify - Account Director TVF Communications - Art Director
Ear 2 the Ground - Head of Experiential How Splendid - UX Designer
Portas - Senior Account Manager Nitro Digital Marketing - Digital Designer
RLH - Senior Account Manager Framestore - Android Developer
Cherry - Account Manager Engage - Studio Manager
7. CONTACT US...
Call or email with your
latest creative need.
Its answer may be
closer than you think.
CONTACTS
Oliver Mackwood - Manager, Permanent
oliver@profilescreative.com
0207 324 0482
Sunni Ray - Manager, Freelance
sunni@profilescreative.com
0207 324 0462
And should these two not be free, don’t fret, we’ve an entire team here to lend a hand. Just call on our office number below...
HEAD OFFICE: 8 - 11 St John’s Lane // Farringdon // London // EC1M 4BF // TEL: 0207 336 0034
