Based in Cincinnati, Carole brings more than 20 years of global business development experience to the mix as she helps businesses of all kinds and sizes design cost-effective workforce solutions in the marketing-communications and creative space. Carole works on a consultative level with organizations who are striving for higher performance through a human capital strategy. That includes outsourcing niche staffing requirements to specialists—including permanent and executive search—along with freelance, expert-on-demand and per-project talent. She has devoted most of her career to working with Fortune 500 companies, helping firms such as Manpower and American Express achieve their ambitious global expansion targets.

In her client service director role, Carole guides clients through each step of contract workforce management, from organizational consulting, to ongoing global contractor management. Carole’s work helps clients manage exposure to co-employment risk, while also identifying additional opportunities for production, workflow and cost efficiencies.

Jenny joined the Creative Niche team in November of 2007 after working with a Canadian retailer. There, she handled media buying and the planning of major national advertising promotions. Prior to that, on the agency side, Jenny was an account manager for client services with one of Canada's largest fashion retailers.

Jenny has a wealth of education: she earned a French certificate in Marseille, France, studied business marketing at Ryerson University, and learned Web page design and HTML at George Brown College.

And it doesn't stop there: Jenny considers continuing education to be essential to her own career path. She's taken courses in advertising fundamentals with The Association of Canadian Advertisers, and acquired corporate training in project management, group facilitation, public speaking and presentation skills.

When she's not travelling or spending time with her proudest achievements--her two daughters--Jenny spends her free time with a camera in hand or participating in Bikram yoga. She's a published photographer, who counts Annie Lebowitz among her influences.

What else gets Jenny excited? People--and the technologies that connect them.

"I'm a tech junkie," she confesses, "whether we're talking about devices or platforms. I'm fascinated by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, mobile phones and apps.

"I think the changing landscape of media is super-exciting. There are so many new communications channels we can listen to and be heard through. They bring us closer to shared interest groups around the world."

Theresa joined Creative Niche in September, 2011, bringing years of experience in the creative recruitment field. As a trusted consulting resource and partner, Theresa has a talent for understanding her clients’ needs, then meeting them by sourcing the right talent quickly and effectively. Specializing in the creative and interactive industries, she joined Creative Niche with an extensive network of qualified candidates, including creative directors, art directors, designers, copywriters, developers and many more highly-skilled personnel.

Theresa thrives on ensuring her candidates and clients enjoy industry-leading service and a hiring process that’s as simple and seamless as possible.  A passionate creative recruitment match-maker, Theresa enjoys preparing strategic recruitment plans and then pairing the right candidates with the best positions to fuel the growth of her many innovative clients.

Taylor joined Creative Niche in September, 2010, as a junior business development specialist, where he also provided support for marketing programs, event management, and handled other critical administrative requirements. Soon after, Taylor discovered a natural interest in recruitment as he began to meet creative talent at various meet-and-greet events. His burgeoning passion for learning about creative professionals’ work, inspiration, process and career ambitions has been a driving force behind his success at Creative Niche.

Taylor has a gift for connecting the right creative minds with leading companies to produce a business match that not only benefits clients, but helps propel candidate careers to new heights. It’s an ability he continues to hone as he contributes to Creative Niche’s ongoing growth and success.

Natalie’s impressive staffing-industry career began at an Ottawa-area employment agency. It was there that she learned the fine art of resume screening, candidate testing, audit compliance and candidate recruitment. Natalie later accepted a position as an office and human resources manager at a Kanata, Ont., engineering firm where she enjoyed responsibilities ranging from managing executive travel arrangements, to handling employee HR queries.

Never one to avoid a difficult challenge, Natalie has a passion for problem solving and helping her colleagues overcome the daily challenges faced by a fast-paced recruitment and workplace management firm such as Creative Niche.  She’s also passionate about career advancement and education, which explains her goal to broaden her existing skills in the payroll and accounting field.

Glen joined the agency in March of 2008 to oversee financial transactions and process payroll. In addition to onboarding talent from Canada, the U.S. and abroad, he also provides essential support to our recruitment team by helping facilitate placements.

Glen's the person that Creative Niche professionals talk to about timesheets, payroll and related issues. He's also the go-to person for Creative Niche clients who have questions about invoices. Meanwhile, he stays abreast of ever-changing employment regulations and HR best practices. It's this knowledge that's allowed him to help us craft specialized workflow processes for offsite teams.

Glen brings a wide variety of work experience to his current role. Among other things, he's been a customer service representative for a financial company, a fabricator and a cook. A self-confessed "polymath in training," Glen has a BA in psychology from the University of Waterloo that's been supplemented by, he claims, "the Jedi teachings of Star Wars, Episodes IV through VI."

Is it this background that's made Glen so even-keeled in approach to his job? In part, but he's also inspired about the people he works with. "The positive energy, sense of forward momentum and teamwork, and generosity on the part of my co-workers and associates make coming into work a truly enjoyable experience," he says.

When he's not at the agency, you might find Glen at live shows by bands as diverse as Arcade Fire, Primal Scream and Black Sabbath. You're equally as likely to find him brain-deep reading writers like Hunter S. Thompson ("he lived an extraordinary life on his own terms"), at a repertory film theatre or, if it's fall, standing in line for a TIFF screening.