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Kennington Creative Group

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A difficult and genuinely unpleasant place to work. - Anonymous employee Kennington Creative Group Employee Review

1.0
30 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good clients and good content opportunities. Most of the work force are great to work with, talented and kind to each other. Friendships in and out of work. For some teams, there is an encouragement to conduct training to improve skillsets, and also a training plan to think about your progression - though I would add this rarely seems to be recognised when looking for pay rises even though there is a promise that it will.

Cons

Its clear from other reviews that the cons of working for this business are common and felt by a heavy proportion of former and current staff. The cons far outweigh the pro's and make it a difficult place to work and progress a career for some. - The average wage is far below the industry standard and also what is expected of people. Pay rises are very hard to get, even after completing pointless skillset documents. - Long working hours are inevitable because they refuse to resource with additional staff to manage the project load. - Work is taken on at an alarming rate to fill gaps in cash flow at the expensive of staffs health and happiness. - They have an appalling reputation in the industry for paying low rates for freelances and and then not paying them at all. They cannot hide from the fact that everyone in the industry knows they don't pay and therefore this usually affects the quality of freelancers that agree to work for them. - The accounts department are under-qualified and have no procedure for dealing with late payments and communicating with freelancers, so they usually ignore their calls and emails. As many have stated, freelancers chase for sometimes years to get paid. - The owner of the business is not only completely out of touch with the industry; refusing to consider new ways of doing things to drive his business in a positive direction, but has been witnessed making sexist and inappropriate comments towards staff. - They forced staff to drive faulty vehicles to save having to pay for safe vehicles.

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Kennington Creative Group Response
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We offer competitive salaries depending on people’s skills and experience, and offer detailed tailored training plans for personal development. Skillset documents are part of the appraisal system, and important milestones as people progress their careers. We review the departmental resource requirement on a monthly basis, and we have recruited many new staff over the past year, adding around 15 new roles. The company accepts that it has let down a significant number of freelance suppliers with overdue payments. The company has worked hard to address this over recent months as the business continues to grow, and now payments (October 2018) are almost all paid or in terms. Furthermore, and in contrast to some other media companies, our payment terms are 30 days as opposed to 60 or even 90. Obviously everyone gets paid. It is true that the Finance department has been under-staffed for some time but a third person is now in place to help out. Moreover, the company has sought external professional services to help implement better systems and procedures. We acknowledge that we had two older vehicles that broke down too many times. However, the vehicles were routinely checked and were always safe; as employers we have a moral and legal responsibility governing the safety of our staff that we uphold rigorously. In any event the company now has two brand new vehicles. We encourage any prospective employees to visit our website for more information on the Management’s respective industry experience. There haven’t been any reports or complaints of inappropriate comments to staff.

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5.0
8 Oct 2018
Anonymous intern
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Pros

-Friendly work environment -Focus on helping assimilate interns and apprentices into the industry -Employees get out of the job what they put into it -Excellent client list - very impressive reel and portfolio -Flexibility to move around within company (producers can work as directors as time progresses, etc)

Cons

- Very busy! This is the film industry though, you know what you're getting yourself into...

4.0
2 Mar 2017
Anonymous intern
Recommend
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Pros

Great work environment, great people, and always something interesting to be a part of

Cons

The nature of the work can be frustrating because you can work for weeks on a project and have it go nowhere if your client isn't interested. Not a lot of direction from my immediate managers.

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