Creative Hiring

Creative director salary in 2026: $120K to $210K total pay, why associate CDs out-earn CDs on Glassdoor, and how film, agencies, and cities shift pay.

Marketing salaries in 2026, role by role: ranges from recent agency and creative searches set against federal wage data, plus how to set your own range.

Should you hire from another industry? Which transferable skills carry into marketing and creative roles, which backgrounds translate, and when to say no.

Hard-to-fill position still open after three months? A recruiter on finding the stage where your search is stuck, and the fix that works for each one.

By Samantha Litman, Executive Search, Marketing, Creative & Media, KORE1 Marketing job titles signal seniority, scope, and specialty, and candidates use them as the first filter before they read a word of your posting. The common ladder runs coordinator, specialist, manager, director, VP, then CMO. Agency titles and in-house titles rarely mean the same thing … Read more

Are your job requirements too specific? A recruiter on spotting the lines that stall a marketing or creative search, and which ones to cut, move or keep.

A job description gives a search its structure, but the right candidate may bring strengths nobody thought to ask for. Samantha Litman on which requirements are load-bearing and which ones stall a search.