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The Creative Group
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Category: Employment Agencies [Edit]
Neighborhood: Financial District50 California Street
10th Floor
(between Davis St & Drumm St)
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 989-6650
5 reviews for The Creative Group
Lisa Gibello at the Creative Group is the best account manager I've ever worked with. She secured a great opportunity for me doing creative work in Berkeley, and quickly trumped it with a long-term contract in San Francisco that has turned into a fantastic full-time position.
During my initial meeting with Lisa, I could tell she really understood my professional aspirations and skill set, and I could see that she was well-connected in the design industry. She's smart, high-powered, and focused on delivering results.
I've been a multimedia designer for over ten years and worked with a wide variety of recruiters, and Lisa is incomparable.
FYI..I'm starting to learn how territorial TCG is. I was offered full-time employment with a company TCG connected me with (not temp, on the new company's payroll). After a couple months, I decided the position was not right for me and kindly parted ways, incredibly professionally. Before I had a chance to contact TCG to tell them how it turned out, I received a very rude, unprofessional call from my TCG rep suggesting that I have marred the relationship between the agency and the firm and "basically took money out of their own pockets." (Apparently if a candidate doesn't stay for more than 90 days, TCG owes them a refund of some sort.) It's a shame it had to work out this way. I am incredibly disturbed and shocked by the way I was spoken to. BEWARE. Be very careful how you deal with this temp agency...........
I have been with CG on and off for 4 years. They have always been great at pairing me with a company that I'll fit in with and be happy at, which to me, says a lot. Although it is true that sometimes they do not follow up as much as they could, this should not turn you away from the agency, and following up on the candidate's part is just as important as a follow-up from the agency side. Also-if you are a contract worker, i.e. freelance, it's always good to give face time with your agency or agencies. Checking in is important-they do it for their candidates and it should be reciprocated. Just a tip from someone who has worked with this agency for some time. I've always been very happy with the companies and assignments I've received from CG.
Absolutely not, never again. If you want an employment agency to cock block you and prevent you from getting a good job you're qualified for, go to these guys. If you want to be lied to about assignments and ignored, this is the place for you. If you want your false hopes about they positions they have available in advertising, publishing and graphic design shattered, call them today.
First of all you give them your resume, tell them what you're looking for, interview with them, and they say they'll call you. Then they don't. If you try to bypass them and look at the jobs they advertise as available on their website and apply for them, they step in and tell you you're not qualified. I must have tried to apply for 20-odd jobs they were recruiting for, only to be told I wasn't the right person for the job. I felt I would have done much better applying directly to the company, which I eventually did and got a job as an editor with an internationally renowned media company.
THEN they had the nerve to keep calling and emailing me asking me where I worked, so they could put it 'in my file', meaning add me to the list of clients they had successfully placed in careers. I don't think so. Thanks for nothing, Creative Group.
I had the worst creative-employment-agency experience there ever. WORST. I have to believe that it's only the SF branch that's like this because I have a friend who used to work for a branch in another city, and he loved it. This one is awful. I don't even want to go into details because it will waste both your and my time, and plus, I'm trying to erase the experience from my memory.
DO NOT, under any circumstances, involve yourself with The Creative Group in San Francisco. Go to Aquent or Creative Circle instead.
