Leighton Howl
Recruitment Director
Let's chat on 021 702 573 or at the office 09 373 3791
Leighton leads the Agency Agent Team at the Pond, placing NZ’s best creative, digital and marketing talent into freelance, contract, and full-time positions with 150 of NZ’s best digital, design, advertising, media, production, and specialist agencies – plus a growing list of agencies overseas as well.
Leighton spends the average week growing The Pond business and working closely with agency clients who understand that people are the most important ingredient in the success of their companies.
Since founding The Pond in 2006, Leighton has grown the business into a leading player in the professional creative recruitment field, providing premium candidates, promoting better industry standards, and producing better results for clients. The Pond now represents more than 300 of NZ’s most sought-after talent across 50 key professions.
Leighton understands talented people because he worked alongside so many of them during his eight years as an ad agency creative. He was always pretty sharp at selling in his ideas, a gift that he has developed even further by successfully pitching NZ’s best creative talent to clients.
“Good people are the key to building strong agencies,” says Leighton. “Our clients want the best and newest talent in the areas of creative, design, digital, and marketing to add their magic and fulfil their ongoing needs.
“The Pond helps clients to do that, easily and robustly. We find the right candidates to nail every brief that comes through the door, plus we help creative, digital and marketing professionals find rewarding work, realise their market value, and achieve their overall career goals.”
Outside work, Leighton is a family man with one wife, two kids, one dog, and six racehorses. He’s also an avid sports watcher, gardener, red wine drinker, gym-goer, fly fisherman, part-time wannabe architect, and ex-rep rugby player.
If you want no-nonsense, practical advice about how to handle your agency’s staffing needs, and how to secure the best people and retain them, Leighton is the man to call.
Full Time Roles
- Graphic Designer (Health & Beauty)
- Auckland
- $80k - $85k
- Full Time
- Live
- Design Director (Packaging / Product)
- Auckland
- $170k - $180k
- Full Time
- Live
- Visual Designer (Health & Beauty)
- Auckland
- $80k - $85k
- Full Time
- Closed
We shake the recruitment tree every day
And, surprise surprise, we get better results than our competitors. 4.1 years to be exact if you are hiring someone full-time through The Pond. We’re committed to finding the best creative, digital and marketing talent in the industry with new results that speak for themselves. Every year for the past three years The Pond has done what no other recruitment agency does and has reviewed all the full-time candidates they have placed since 2009 – that’s a lot of candidates. The numbers don’t lie!!!
Wouldn’t it be nice to simply focus on what you do best – being creative
Representation by The Pond means access to even more work opportunities without many of the hassles of being self-employed, like cold calling and chasing invoices. It also means someone to back you up if there’s ever a dispute with a client. Let us find the work for you. In doing so we’ll also take care of negotiations over things like rates, start dates, project expectations and fixed-term contracts that can be a little awkward.
Recruitment.
You need to get it right the first time – because the alternative is just too awful to contemplate. If you get your own recruitment wrong, (as you often do) suddenly you’re lumbered with twice the cost in terms of money and time. Plus you’ve got to rid yourself of your ‘bad recruit’, and let’s not even talk about the stress of having to pin the bad hire on someone else. The Pond has been making sure all of that hasn’t been happening for the last ten years...
