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The time for this shit is waaaaaay overdue. I was born in Mexico, but have lived here since I was a kid. I’ve been a US citizen for decades. I’ve worked for General Market agencies and also multicultural agencies. Both agencies pass up on perfectly qualified Americans of Hispanic origin for several reasons (none of them good). For General Market agencies, for the most part is just because they hire white people 99% of the time because others don’t “fit the culture”. In the odd occasion they hire a Latinx, it’s either because it is someone who has won every fucking award there is multiple times and there’s just no way of justifying not hiring them. The other times it’s usually a Brazilian (Brazil usually wins a lot in Cannes) or someone from another Latin American country who has a good number of awards and they get hired with lower than average salaries and lower positions than they held back in their countries. The visas they’re working under, prevent them from going to another shop and the moment they stop performing or there’s a lay-off , they just don’t get their visas renewed and get sent back. It’s pretty exploitative for them, while keeping Americans from getting those jobs.
Hispanic Market agencies used to do something similar A LOT. Many of these agencies have gone under or are barely keeping afloat, but they would bring creatives from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and to a lesser extent Peru, Colombia and other countries where they would pick out the best creatives from said countries and bring them under the same circumstances I already outlined above: Low pay, the promise of a green card some day and the inability to move to a different shop to get a better salary. At most of these Hispanic agencies, a good 80% of their creatives are here on visas.
I remember once when pretty far into the interview process, I lost an ACD job vacancy to a candidate who had been a Chief Creative Officer with 5 lions in Latin America and was now coming here as an ACD with a poorly paid ACD salary. How the fuck was I supposed to compete with that?
Sadly, this describes my experience to a T.
There are a lot of people of color that you can hire from São Paulo, from my knowledge. Brazilians are the most diverse people in the world. Almost everyone has African blood.
Oh believe me. We are qualified. We exist. Whether US “general market” agencies are willing to a knowledge us, hire us and promote us accordingly is a different question. Signed: a Latin American, female Creative Director.
So you’re saying: hire Americans not foreigners... Rings a bell...
Love that you threw a very loaded grenade then ran, Creative Director 2. But yes, for the sake of everyone, please go.
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Yes because “us agencies” factors in the middle of the country which isn’t using talent that way. The coastal holding company agencies have industrialized their networks in service of feeding the awards engine. At least 1/3 of my last wpp shop was Brazilian, on transfer and O1 visas, not client facing or billing to specific business, just there to look for awards opportunities. That’s how you can be an ecd with no day to day clients....
Why is Spain included on this list at all?
Creative Director OP nailed it ☝🏽 Then add insult to injury when you have to report to people less qualified/less experienced than you, who take offense at you having opinions on how to improve the work. Bam! Now you’re “spicy” and “difficult to work with.”