Results for Topics: "Career" (45 results found)
September 27, 2012
Design Salaries 2012: Holding Strong
The results of the AIGA/Aquent 2012 Survey of Design Salaries was released this week and contains some not-so-surprising information, but plenty of good news on upward trends. More
tagged: digital, interactive, creative, survey, blog, graphic design
September 06, 2012
Avoid These Resume Red Flags When Job Hunting
With the unemployment rate holding strong at 8.3%, it can be difficult to stand out when hunting for a new job. We've put together a list of 6 important resume details to pay close attention to when looking for your next gig. More
tagged: job hunting, blog, résumé
September 04, 2012
Outdated Work Profiles Are So Yesterday
A job seeker’s time is valuable. This is one reason we’re excited to introduce Aquent’s latest talent tool, Social Update. This is a quick and convenient way for job seekers in our network to let our agents know of any new skills, education, and experience they’ve acquired. More
tagged: job hunting, blog, résumé
July 30, 2012
Is Temp The New Perm?
Temp work not only features flexibility of schedule, like independent freelancing does, but in many cases, it’s better. Staffing companies have the relationships with clients and collect on receivables. Temping also costs freelancers less in taxes, since they are W2 employees of the staffing agency. These are a few rea... More
tagged: job hunting, contracting, hiring, freelance, blog, staffing
July 19, 2012
Why Both Temp-to-Perm and Temping are Wise Choices
We know a majority of our expert talent come to us for both: a foot in the door for more permanent work at some of the world's biggest brands and work that offers them the flexibility they want. More
tagged: job hunting, contracting, freelance, blog, staffing
July 13, 2012
Aquent’s Commitment to Affordable Health Benefits
We were interested, along with many Americans, to hear the June 28 Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As one of the first employment agencies to offer our talent benefits, Aquent has always provided great health benefits to our talented marketing, creative and digital contractors who might not oth... More
tagged: contracting, hiring, freelance, blog, staffing, healthcare
June 25, 2012
Free HTML5 Training - The Summer of Learning is Here!
As part of our commitment to providing career advancement opportunities to the design community, we’re providing free HTML5 training through our new Summer of Learning program. More
tagged: contracting, hiring, freelance, blog, staffing, healthcare
March 13, 2012
In a Staffing Jam? Take the Talent Bridge
It happens more often than not: You hire a new employee who looks great on paper, gives stellar interviews, but is your department’s worst nightmare. Maybe they lack the skills they claim or just don’t blend in to your company culture. More
tagged: blog
February 02, 2009
Surround Yourself With Competent Specialists
When hiring new marketers, managers are less concerned about depth experience and much more concerned about finding people whose skill-sets match their needs. More
January 14, 2009
Great Digital Marketing Managers Look Like This
Great digital marketing managers have several things in common: they are passionate users of technology; they exhibit a fanatical attention to detail; they know how to connect the dots in very complex, dynamic systems; and they are skilled at translating business needs into technological reality. More
December 24, 2008
Chris Brogan on Using the Social Web to Find Work
Chris Brogan on using social media to find work. More
tagged: job hunting
November 21, 2008
Will Work for Inspiration
I was talking to Monica on our Print team about inspiration and wondered (since she's actually a Designer and I'm not) where she gets her inspiration when she's stuck. More
tagged: job hunting
November 21, 2008
Working Abroad May Have Its Challenges... But So Too Can Coming Home!
Perhaps this is a topic fairly close to home (pardon the pun) as I have just returned from two years abroad living and working in Hong Kong. But this entry isn't so much about the many challenges associated with establishing yourself in another country, but more about what you could experience when you return home. More
tagged: job hunting
November 17, 2008
What Are You Really Looking For in a Career?
While Tim McNamara's article in Australia's Desktop magazine, two particular paragraphs struck a chord. More
tagged: job hunting
November 11, 2008
Shiny Happy People!
Our Boston office was just named one of the "Top 100 Places to Work in Boston" by The Boston Globe. More
tagged: job hunting
November 10, 2008
Aquent Boston - A Globe 100 "Top Place to Work"
Congratulations are due our Boston office, which was recognized in The Boston Globe yesterday as one of the Globe's 100 Top Places to Work. More
tagged: awards
November 06, 2008
Aquent Wins Best Multi-National Agency at Recent Awards
At the recent inaugural REA 2008 Recruitment Excellence Awards, Aquent was awarded Best Multi-National Agency. More
October 19, 2008
Job Search: Hoping for a Career Break Into Marketing
The Aquent Oracle answers some questions about a marketing career. More
tagged: contracting
October 03, 2008
An Introduction to Freelancing
Top journo and editorial freelancer, John Pinching shares his thoughts on a career as a freelancer following more than seven successful years working in temporary contracts… More
tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing
September 26, 2008
Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow, Right?
"If your work isn’t what you love, then something isn’t right." More
tagged: creative
September 25, 2008
Working As a Temp or Contractor... Have Your Say!
Being a professional temp or contractor can provide a broad exposure to many different industries as well as giving individuals more of an opportunity to strike a better work-life balance. More
tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing
September 20, 2008
What Do You Want to Do With Your Life?
About twenty years ago, after I had dropped out of grad school, quit my job at SuperShuttle, and was so broke that I made all my family members collages as Christmas presents, my father sat me down for a fireside chat. The gist was: Dude, you got to get it together, figure out what you want to do with your life, and ju... More
tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing
September 17, 2008
Some More Hints on Making a Smooth Career Transition
A career change (as opposed to job change) is one of the biggest decisions you may need to make. Deciding to move from one job to another within the same industry is often tough enough, however it is usually made easier by the fact that at least you know exactly what is involved in your field and you hopefully enjoy wh... More
tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing
September 12, 2008
Don't Pigeon-Hole Yourself... Your Skills are Transferable
Your transferable skills can determine not only how realistic a particular career change could be for you, but also how easy it will be for you to sell yourself to a prospective employer in your newly chosen field. More
tagged: creative, contracting, freelance, staffing
September 03, 2008
Interview Tip #3 - The "So What?" Test
A very useful mental tool you may want to consider during an interview is to apply the “so what?” test to whatever you are intending to say when preparing your response to a particular question. More
September 01, 2008
Interview Tip #2 - Interview Preparation
Ask any employer with experience of interviewing for their number one complaint about interviewees and it will almost always revolve around a lack of preparation. More
tagged: job hunting, interview
August 26, 2008
Interview tip #1 - First Impressions Count!
Put yourself in the interviewer’s shoes and ask yourself what they will be looking for, over and above skills and experience levels. More
tagged: job hunting, interview
August 22, 2008
It's Not What You Know...
We all know them… those people that get tickets to sold out concerts, or invitations to the hottest party in town, or better still… that dream job that never gets advertised. How do they do it? Nine times out of ten it’s because of that old adage, “it’s not what you know, but who you know.” More
tagged: job hunting
August 12, 2008
Is Contract Marketing An Attractive Option?
Companies are now needing to fill gaps in capacity with short-term staff, and hiring specialist staff in areas such as new media, is the smart way for companies to deliver specific projects without investing in permanent teams. More
tagged: creative, job hunting, contracting, freelance, staffing
August 08, 2008
Finding The Perfect Work-work Balance
We often hear people telling us how important it is to strike a perfect work-life balance. More
tagged: creative, job hunting, contracting, freelance, staffing
July 30, 2008
101 Unusual Things You Can Do To Save The Earth
101 Unusual Things You Can Do To Save The Earth More
July 26, 2008
Retro-tech as Virtual Gatekeeper
A job-seeker recently told me that a local public radio station explicitly asked applicants to SEND THEIR RESUMES AND REFERENCES VIA SNAIL MAIL. This set me to thinking. More
tagged: interview
May 19, 2008
Sally Hogshead: Radical Careerist
Sally Hogshead is the author of Radical Careering, a book that “helps you visualize your no-compromises future, so you can start to build it, piece by piece.” I came across Sally’s work via Ad Age where she writes a career-oriented column entitled, “Hogshead On.” More
tagged: interview
April 15, 2008
Make Yourself Indispensible - Talking with Aquent's Chris Spangler
You might not expect a graphic designer working as part of a program support center housed within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to say, “The majority of work I do gives me creative freedom,” but that’s exactly what Chris Spangler, who is represented by Aquent’s Baltimore office, told me when I spoke ... More
tagged: interview
April 11, 2008
Pigs Still Not Flying (On Having a Resume)
Not only should you have a resume, you should pay very close attention to the information you put on it. More
tagged: résumé
April 03, 2008
June Dershewitz on Careers in Web Analytics and Avoiding the "Report Monkey Trap" - A Podcast Experience
June Dershewitz on Careers in Web Analytics and Avoiding the "Report Monkey Trap" - A Podcast Experience More
February 13, 2008
Leave Robot Work to the Robots
"Leave Robot Work to the Robots" - June Dershewitz and Career Advice for Web Analysts More
August 25, 2007
An End of Summer Reading List for Information Designers
Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path recently posted a reading list on their blog that provides designers, and information designers in particular, with a hefty end of summer reading list. More
tagged: creative
June 01, 2007
Work + Life: It's Not About Balance - It's About Fit
Aquent, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Work+Life Fit, Inc., collaborated to survey hundreds of working professionals and corporate executives on the subject of flexible career paths and work arrangements. More
tagged: creative
February 09, 2007
Marketing's Low Blow
"I don’t want to diminish it by saying it’s marketing, but in a sense we have a product we need to get out to people." More
tagged: creative
January 26, 2007
Interviewing Tips from Famed Microsoft Recruitment Blogger Heather Hamilton
Heather Hamilton posted a lengthy piece on how to come across as confident in an interview without seeming “jerky.” More
tagged: job hunting, interview, blog
December 18, 2006
Mapping Marketing Career Paths: Anne Holland of MarketingSherpa
How does a career in marketing happen? Since my own path to marketing, while not entirely accidental, was certainly unplanned (I started out as a college professor), I was wondering if others had had similar experiences. Did everyone in marketing today set out to be a marketer, or did some become marketers in the cours... More
tagged: job hunting, interview, blog
November 08, 2006
Another Note on Interviewing
John Moore of TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE fame led a breakout session called, "Growing a Brand. Growing a Team," at the 2006 In-HOWse Designer Conference. During this session, the participants discussed how to spot what I’ll call, people you really don’t want to work with (they had a much more colorful and evocative name for them... More
tagged: interview