Say hello to Profiles Creative, one of the UK’s leading Creative Recruitment Specialists with over 10 years of industry experience. Our 4 teams recruit across: Marketing & Ecommerce Design, Digital, and Client Services Fashion & Retail PR & Communications All of these disciplines are fuelled by creativity – we don’t believe in off-the-shelf recruitment; we are made to measure to fit your needs. We provide permanent, contract and freelance support and also offer bespoke options with our executive search, interim and team build offerings. We provide unrivalled access to the creative industry’s most coveted talent in Design, Digital, Marketing, Ecommerce, PR and Fashion. Most importantly though, we pride ourselves on our culture of vibrancy and transparency always empowering our clients, candidates and our own staff to continually grow and evolve, moving from strength to strength. Boutique Recruitment. But on a grand scale.

1. IF YOUcan’t
Beat THEM,
JOiN Them

2. Recruitment is a special game to be part of. One
minute you’re a consultant, the next a “Life
Saver”, “Hero”, “Saint” or “Star”.
Where for someone, somewhere, every action
you take is potentially life-changing.
We work at crossroads and these are sensitive
places: where an inch to one side soon becomes
a mile - and that mile a million. We’re caught
between butterflies and hurricanes.
It’s not what you’d call your average job. A job
with us is even less so...

3. HOW TO BUILD AN AGENCY
Well, if it’s anything like ours, start with a snow-swept cottage
in Twickenham, an office space with a view of the back garden,
a cat named Gladys and an army of custard creams.
Then, once you’re settled, put the kettle on and do something
no one else has done: become the original multi-disciplined
recruiter for the creative industry.
Then get ready to grow. And quickly. With the success of our
unique offering of both Creative and Marketing, and later PR,
we soon outgrew our quaint but horizontally-challenged office
and moved into the thick of the city. Last came our Fashion &
Retail team to give our retail clients even more...
The rest, as they say, is history.
Buy why dwell in the past when it’s the future that really gets
us going. Our future-fuelled approach is the reason we’re
here, and it’s a future that depends solely on people like you.
As anyone worth recruiting for knows, it’s our people that
drive us forward - from here to our ultimate aim of RUTHLESS
GLOBAL DOMINATION. Don’t panic: that’s not really our aim.
We actually prefer staying trim in size to ensure we don’t start
putting profit before performance.
Today, a whole Thames Valley team to boot, we are now the
UK’s most definitive creative recruiter.
The only thing we’re still missing is you...

4. Design, digital, CLIENT SERVICES
& Strategy & Planning
This team recruit everyone you’d find within a creative studio. People who
spend their days herding colours around their over-sized Macs, brainstorm-
ing concepts, or project managing the whole creative process.
Regular placements include digital and print designers, art directors, coders,
copywriters, artworkers, studio management folk and every level of account
handler.
MARKETING & ECOMMERCE
This team recruit every type of marketer (that’s marketer, not
musketeer, silly). From boardroom strategists to busy-footed execs, their tal-
ent helps many of the UK’s strongest brands grow even
stronger.
And for all ecom clients, we have digital consultants able to recruit every
pixel of their ecommerce team, from marketing and design to
technical development.
OUR TEAMS
PR & COMMUNICATIONS
Heard the news lately? Well - whether it’s gossip, revelation or rumour - if
it’s about a brand there’s a chance one of our PR & Comms
candidates had a hand in it.
We partner with both Top 150 agencies and leading brands and supply
everyone from Account Handlers, Press Officers, Crisis
Management people, to Internal Comms professionals.
FASHION & RETAIL
Having half the high street as our clients, as well as a multitude of luxury
brands, prompted us to provide retailers with an even better and more
complete service.
This team supplies everyone from Heads of Creative, to eCommerce Man-
agers, through to photographers, the odd stylist and even those people
you see making shop window displays appealing enough to eat.

5. WHAT ARE THE WORKING HOURS?
Our working hours are 9am – 6pm. And that’s not recruitment speak
for 8am - 8pm. We actually mean it as we want you to keep your
work-life balance... balanced. We also run a flexi-time benefit when
you are out of probation where you can start and finish to fit your own
schedule - work 8am - 5pm, 9am - 6pm or 10am - 7pm as you need
to! And there is always flexibility should you need to make a long
avoided trip to the dentist or buy a last minute gift for a friend.
IS THERE A SET STRUCTURE THAT EVERYONE WORKS TO?
Not really. We prefer consultants to self-manage their time and
implement their own plans on how to achieve their targets. But that’s
not to say there isn’t a support structure to help you discover your
own best way of working. And apart from some joint business
development drives to help support each other, you’re generally left
to your own devices.
ARE THERE ANY INCENTIVES TO HELP KEEP ME MOTIVATED?
Make one placement every day - or feel the sting of the whip. How’s
that for an incentive? Only kidding, it’s actually two placements, not
one, and that whip, it’s really more of a bespoke torture unit that
doesn’t have a name yet but has lots of patents pending...
Actually, we have lots of regular incentives. But most are chocolate
covered, involve leaving early, trips away, decadent meals out, events
and secret parties.
LIFE AT PROFILES
WHAT’S IT FEEL LIKE TO WORK HERE?
Our office, if you haven’t visited us yet, has a relaxed, colourful and
creative vibe. It’s open-plan with plenty of natural light. We also have a
dress-down policy so unless you’re out visiting one of our more stuffy
clients you can leave your suit and tie to gather dust at home.
When placements are made we like to celebrate, but you won’t hear
dinging bells or gongs, or see people giving themselves a running start
for an around-the-world hand slap. So we’re free from the standard
issue practices you can find in many sales environments. Likewise, we
won’t give you a lovely comfy seat only to tell you to stand up when
you’re on the phone.
We love music. So we keep the radio rolling throughout the day. Got an
iPod? Stick it on, just be ready for some lively debate on your collection
of 80’s “classics”.
SCREW WORK. WHERE’S THE PARTY?
We admire your enthusiasm. You will do well here. We don’t need too
much of an excuse to visit our local barkeep and talk shop and nonsense.
And with quarterly nights out, there’s plenty of opportunity to let off
steam and learn things about your colleagues that - let’s face it - you’d
have been richer for not knowing.

6. Aha... I see we have your undivided attention. Great stuff. We
want our consultants to be properly rewarded for their efforts,
and so have a commission structure designed to maximise your
potential take-home pay.
MONTHLY COMMISSION SCHEME
1. If you bill less than £10,000 per month a threshold of £6,000 is
applied.
2. If you bill more than £10,000 per month, you will not have a
threshold and will receive a percentage on everything you bill, with
the following percentage being paid out at each stage:
GP ACHIEVED IN MONTH
£0 - £6,000
£6,000 -£9,999
£10,000 - £14,999
£15,000 +
SHOW ME THE MONEY
COMMISSION PAYABLE
No commission payable
8% of GP billed (over £6,000)
22% of GP billed
25% of GP billed
FOR NEW FREELANCE CONSULTANTS:
We know that building a freelance desk takes time, so we tweak
our commission scheme for a 6-month period to reward you even
while you’re starting out.
OTHER BENEFITS
Pension Scheme - 3% matched by us
22–25 Days Holiday + Extra 1 day each year of service (up to 3 days)
Free Eye Tests
Free Breakfast on Mondays
Duvet Days - (Our Favourite!)
Flexi-time
Progression Paths - Executive Consultant vs. Management Training
Scheme
2 Month Sabbatical after 3 years service
Monthly Incentives and Rewards
Quarterly Nights Out

7. We
live in
F a r r i n g d o n .
It’s one of the most active and
interesting commercial hubs in London
and the preferred home to many of London’s top
creative and media agencies.
Although very of-the-moment it comes with a rich history too. Its
quaint streets are a patch-work quilt of architectural styles from
the historic to the modern.
It’s home to the annual Clerkenwell Design Festival, the (haunted)
museum of the Order of St John, and everybody’s favourite
cocktail hangout, TART bar.
It’s also got more cafes, restaurants and bars than you can shake
a tenner at. So you’re never lost for somewhere new to lunch or
to go after work.
But most importantly, we think anyway, is that it’s our home too.
We moved here in 2005 and have never looked back...
W
HERE
W
ELIVE
DEBRA FOUNDER
Debra spent years treading the boards in Washington DC and New York
before moving into recruitment via a global creative specialist. Debra started
Profiles in 2003 and she’s been the heart and soul of the brand ever since. In
2013, Debra took a step back from the every day activities of the business but
is always on hand in the wings and her personality still permeates throughout
the business. She is also the owner of official office dog Lula, who comes to
visit us from time to time.
MOST LIKELY TO: Be heard laughing from as far as 2 streets away.
WHO’S DRIVING THIS THING?
JEN M.D.
Jen has been working and loving recruitment since 2004, and has always
specialised in Media, Digital & Creative. She was managing teams back when
Digital was still known as New Media. Today she’s our much-loved MD, in
charge of running the company on a day to day basis and overseeing all of our
sales teams and operations. Jen is responsible for the Profiles Creative vision
- who we are, where we are going and how we are going to get there.
MOST LIKELY TO: Have her alter-ego, “The Wrangler”, be called upon by
consultants in need of her ace negotiation skills. The Wrangler never fails.

8. MASTER THE ART
HOW GOOD ARE YOU?
That good, huh? Well, we believe you can be even better. We also
believe that once you’ve joined us, it’s our responsibility to make
that happen. We’ll provide you with all the tools you need and
teach you new skills to give you greater control over your desk and
your earnings. Mastering your art means you also have more fun
every day you come to work.
We regularly hold training sessions on a wide range of topics, and
most times you can pick and choose which you feel are most
useful to you, as well as how many you want to get involved in.
We also give consultants the chance to provide company-wide
sessions on specialist knowledge areas that are valuable to all such
as social media or Google Boolean searching. So if you have any
specific expertise you want to share, we’re always ready to provide
the platform.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
It’s good to know you’re going places. And as you develop in your
role it’s important that your role develops too. So we offer clear
career paths to those seeking them. This gives you the chance to
progress and take on new responsibilities such as team
management or mentoring.
Prefer just to manage yourself? Then we’ll help you build your desk
so that you can watch your billings grow and grow and grow some
more.

9. NOW STOP
reading AND
DO SOMETHING
Amazing.......
0207 336 0034 | laura@profilescreative.com