Cummins & Partners’ Sean Cummins hits out at agencies ‘poaching’ staff, makes new hires

Cummins & Partners CEO Sean Cummins attributed the need to make six new creative hires to other Melbourne agencies – including The Monkeys, TBWA and Chris Howatson’s new venture Howatson + White – ‘poaching’ his staff.

“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 said.

“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.”

Cummins & Partners CEO Sean Cummins