Creative Niche

These guys are awesome.
They were able to find me a contract within a week and now a full time position. In addition to connecting me with opportunities, they offered free advice on editing my résumé, negotiating salary and identifying my skills. The team at Creative Niche is accommodating and put in the extra effort to understand your employment preferences.

Creative Niche was the best thing that could ever happen to me. I found my dream job and I love it. Taylor helped me a lot. he never gave up on me until I found what I want. Their team work their best to interview me, gave me all the info I need. Best decision ever.

So, I’ve used Creative Niche previously to aid in my job hunt. And just like the previous reviewer, Craig Hodges was my go-​to man. In all honesty, it’s been a so-​so experience.
The Good:
— Craig helped me revamp my resume and really taught me how to position and market myself in the industry. For this experience alone, I think every creative should give them a call.
The Bad:
— I am a follow-​upper and I guess Craig’s just an extraordinarily busy person. After that one day of reviewing and helping me with my resume, I barely ever heard from him, even when I sent him constant e-​mails for updates.
The Ugly:
— False promises. I never expect an employment agency to find me a concrete job, but Craig was the one to tell me several times that they were presenting my resume and candidate profile to certain companies (that I can’t name) … but he never bothered keeping me in the loop about results or feedback. The weirdest part was, that over a span of 6 – 8 months, he e-​mailed me about the same position at the same company 3 times to find out if I was interested. And I was, all those 3 times. But I never heard back from them about it… even after constant following up.

I’ve started using Creative Niche to aid in my job hunt. My friend recommended I give them a call, Craig Hodges in particular who he worked with to find his current place of employment.
My initial email to Craig was returned within a matter of hours and an appointment was scheduled for a Friday morning. I fired over my resume and some other requested information before hand. Even before our Friday meeting Craig had emailed me to let me know he had an opportunity that would most likely be of interest for me and would discuss it further in our meeting.
Creative Niche is very thorough in the their set up. There’s a fair bit of paperwork to fill out on your initial visit but they’re just trying to set you up for success by getting a solid foundation of who you are, what you’re about, and what you’re looking for. Once the paperwork was out of the way I sat down with Craig and he explained how they work and the way they structure things.
After that it was all about me. We went through my resume and delved into my work history, talked about the things I liked about where I was before and what I wanted to get out of my future career path.
While it’s early in my relationship with Creative Niche, so far it has been an excellent experience.
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