For many companies, business starts to wind down during the holiday season in preparation for the New Year.  Not at Draft Chicago.  The agency, one of the world's leading behavior-based, marketing communications powerhouses, has been on an unprecedented two-year growth spurt and this week announced its intent to fill 50 new jobs across all disciplines including creative, account services, interactive, multi-cultural and healthcare.

In 2005 alone, Draft Chicago has welcomed new business from such clients as Nokia (globally), L.A. Times, Johnson & Johnson, S.C. Johnson, the American Marketing Association, and a major pharmaceutical company, as well as incremental business from existing clients Masterfoods USA, Procter & Gamble, Kellogg, MilkPEP, United States Postal Service, State Farm, Kaiser Permanente, Ross Products, Brown-Forman, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, DeVry University, PACCAR Parts, and CVS/pharmacy.

"This is an exciting time for our agency. With clients shifting their advertising budgets from traditional media to more measurable marketing services, we've experienced incredible opportunity and growth," said Yvonne Furth, president and COO of Draft Chicago. "We're looking for candidates who can bring expertise from all areas of marketing to the table. By hiring the best and brightest minds in the industry, we're able to deliver a highly creative product to our clients that measurably gets results."

Since the beginning of the year, the number of Draft employees in Chicago has already increased nearly 11 percent (not including the 50 open positions) by hiring people with prior experience at such industry stalwarts as Leo Burnett, Deutsch, Ogilvy & Mather and Upshot.  The number of job-seekers approaching Draft has greatly increased ever since the agency last year was named one of the "Best Places to Work" in the city by Chicago Magazine and since it was awarded the highest 5 Star rating in Advertising Age's annual agency ranking earlier this year - marking the first time a marketing services agency was judged alongside its general agency peers. 

For more information on open positions at Draft visit the "Joining Us" section of the agency's website at www.draftworldwide.com