Cummins&Partners CEO Sean Cummins has named the competitors trying to poach his staff as the agency made six new hires in Melbourne.
Lily Lazzarotti, Melany Ang and Jamie Clifford join as art directors, with Annabel Begeng, Claudia Sarosiek and Sarah Vanderschoot coming on board as writers.
"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," Cummins&Partners CEO Sean Cummins says.
“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!
“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!”
AdNews is seeking comment from the agencies named by Sean Cummins.
Cummins&Partners creative director Heath Collins says the new hires have brought a fresh take to the agency.
“We are working hard at creating a combination of brilliant senior talent and exciting new talent and nothing in the middle," Collins says.
"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.”
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