Cummins&Partners announces the six creatives top agencies will poach in five years time
Cummins&Partners is pleased to announce the hiring of its next vintage crop of creative talent. Cummins&Partners, long renowned for finding and developing elite talent, has started the new year with six new hires for its Melbourne agency.
Lily Lazzarotti, Melany Ang and Jamie Clifford join as art directors, with Annabel Begeng, Claudia Sarosiek and Sarah Vanderschoot coming on board as writers.
Says Sean Cummins, CEO, Cummins&Partners: “With an industry leading staff retention rate, the Cummins&Partners creative department has remained largely unchanged in recent times, but there has been a spate of other Melbourne agencies offering jobs to our well-trained highly professional teams.
“It’s been a bit of known industry thing that when you’ve worked for us you must be pretty good. We have a culture of nurturing, mentoring and developing very good creative brains, who are also very hardworking and nice people.
“Clearly agencies like Thinkerbell, TBWA, M&C Saatchi, The Monkeys and even the new agency Howatson+White think so as they have all enthusiastically chased our teams and whilst we hate to see our people leave we know two things: our culture breeds more talent and most of our people come back!”
Says Heath Collins, creative director at Cummins&Partners: “We are working hard at creating a combination of brilliant senior talent and exciting new talent and nothing in the middle. We feel rejuvenated by the new crew we’ve recruited and we are equally very proud of the teams that have gone and joined very good agencies.”
Adds Cummins: “Obviously that means we do something right and the Cummins&Partners influence on the Melbourne advertising scene continues to grow. I guess though if clients want the real deal in terms of creative…they can always come straight to us at the source. Sorry I have to say that only because it’s true!”
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Wish people well, and move on. PRing this feels awkward.
All the top agencies get plundered for people constantly.
Yewwwww, Lily and Annabel! Congratulations, you’re going to kill it!
Sorry, is this release about six people getting a chance? if so, congrats to them.
I guess I got distracted.
All the best to the new hires!
Shouldn’t PR releases about new hires have a little bit about the actual people involved? Rather than just a dig at other agencies? Advances from competitors happen constantly, to every place in town. If your creatives are happy and treated well, they ignore them.
So, if you’re a junior creative aspiring to be promoted to middle weight, you’ll need to move on to advance as C&P doesn’t employ anyone in between junior and senior. Why is it any surprise turnover is rising then? No career path planning in that approach.
Well done Annabel! You’ll smash it
She’s great.
There was a significant number of creative redundancies in December
5 young women – congratulations
“With an industry leading staff retention rate…” ha ha ha ha. Oh my, I need a lie down.
Congrats on the 5 women hires though, I know women were pretty scarce in the creative department after recent departures/redundancies.
Almost all agencies hire people from competitor agencies unless it’s an entry level job requiring no experience (and even then they will prefer to take someone who’s completed an internship). It’s not unique to Cummins.
Good casting