PORTLAND, Ore., July 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jackie Mathys Studio Staffing, a creative staffing agency and POTESTIO, a human resources and recruitment firm, announced they have merged as Mathys+Potestio. Mathys+Potestio is a premier resource for creative services, marketing communications firms and internal marketing departments. Mathys+Potestio's primary service offerings are creative and marketing staffing, retained and contingency search and human resources/talent management consulting specializing in creative services firms.
"Jackie and I have been competitors at a high level for years, so we figured we'd merge and take the industry by storm," said Steve Potestio. "We immediately form a company that can honestly claim to be the most experienced in the market. We also have a unique philosophy of service, values and service offerings that position us well."
M+P offers a breadth of services including: creative staffing for creative agencies and marketing communications departments, retained and contingency search for senior to executive level positions and talent management to include human resources compliance, organizational structure, recruitment branding all in the pursuit of building people positive cultures to help businesses grow.
Current M+P clients include: Columbia Sportswear, Umpqua Bank, Dakine, adidas, Ziba Design, and many of Portland's top creative service firms. To learn more about Mathys+Potestio and how to make an omelet for 300 people, please visit www.mathys-potestio.com.
ABOUT JACKIE MATHYS
Jackie launched and ran Protem Staffing's successful creative division, and later became a partner in Mathys McCleod Creative Staffing. In 2002, she began headhunting and placing creative standouts as Jackie Mathys Studio Staffing. Prior to creative staffing, Jackie was a freelance copywriter for the action sports industry and a staff writer and editor at POWDER Magazine. She has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from California State University Fullerton.
ABOUT STEVE POTESTIO
Steve Potestio has been in the creative industry for over 23 years. He was the co-founder of creative placement agency 52 Limited, formed POTESTIO in 2009, and has spent years in agency operations and human resources executive management. A former graphic designer and writer, he relies on his own historical quest for, and employment in, creative service jobs along with his years of exposure to hiring the process as a human resources professional and staffing agency owner to guide employers and individuals through the jungles of the creative services industry. Though it makes him feel old, he estimates he has placed over 1300 people in roles ranging from account services to project management to creative to executive management.