• The Social (Network) Butterfly

  15, Jun, 2010

  We’re online, we’re interacting and we’re sharing more content with more people. Everyone’s doing anything they want, and only good things can come of it, right?

• Aquent survey points to staff growth across Greater China

  18, May, 2010

  SHANGHAI - Global staffing company Aquent released its 2010 Greater China Aquent Market Eye, a survey of hiring intentions and salary predictions for the marketing and design industries across Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

• Aquent’s Market Eye Survey Points Towards Staff Growth in Digital and Media Across Greater China

  18, May, 2010

  Global marketing and design staffing company Aquent has released its 2010 Greater China Aquent Market Eye, a snapshot of hiring intentions and salary predictions for the marketing and design industries across Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

• Aquent Joins as the Official Career Sponsor of the 14th Annual Webby Award

  26, Apr, 2010

  The Webby Awards announced that Aquent has joined as the Official Career Sponsor of the 14th Annual Webby Awards, held in New York City on June 14, 2010.

• DMA Webinar: Deploying Social Media To Generate Customer Loyalty

  20, Jul, 2010

  In this presentation you'll obtain vital information about which metrics your colleagues and competitors are using to measure the effectiveness of social platforms, how they rank the platforms and how many customers they're engaging. Find out how your spending stacks up against the budgets other companies allocate to social media efforts, what dollar percentage the others are earmark for each platform and how they're sourcing social media funding.

• July LA Flash Adobe User Group (LAFAUG) Meeting

  21, Jul, 2010

  At the Rich Media Institute – 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291<p>

  Join us on Adobe Connect Pro: http://bit.ly/laflashlive<p>

  FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | FREE BEER | NO RSVP

• Aquent wins Best Multi-National Agency and Best Agency Website at the Recruitment Excellence Awards

  03, Nov, 2009

  For the second year running, Aquent wins Best Multi-National Agency and for the first time, Best Agency Website, at the 2009 Recruitment Excellence Awards (REA) in Australia.

• Aquent Awarded 2009 WebAward for Outstanding Website by Web Marketing Association

  23, Oct, 2009

  Aquent awarded "Outstanding Achievement in Web Development” in the employment category

15, Jun, 2010

The Social (Network) Butterfly

http://www.desktopmag.com.au Tim McNamara, Creative Agent, Aquent We’re online, we’re interacting and we’re sharing more content with more people. Everyone’s doing anything they want, and only good things can come of it, right?

18, May, 2010

Aquent survey points to staff growth across Greater China

Media Marie Green SHANGHAI - Global staffing company Aquent released its 2010 Greater China Aquent Market Eye, a survey of hiring intentions and salary predictions for the marketing and design industries across Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

30, Apr, 2010

City of Angels or Bust

Marketing Magazine, Australia Tim McNamara, Creative Agent, Aquent Los Angeles is famous (and infamous) for so many things. While affected by the US's economic woes LA is beginning to bounce back, explains Tim McNamara.

30, Apr, 2010

Online and Out There

Desktop Magazine Tim McNamara, Creative Agent, Aquent Tim McNamara looks at taking your creative portfolio online

23, Feb, 2010

Online vs Physical Portfolios – Still Hungry?

www.desktopmag.com.au Tim McNamara, Aquent Creative Agent, Brisbane, Australia If a resume is the ‘appetiser’ – or taster – of one’s skills and experience as a designer, the portfolio is the ‘main’ that follows. I’m not talking so much a supersized, expansive feast here. Rather, this ‘main’ is generous and appropriately-sized and aims to have the ‘diner’, once finished, feeling ‘pleasantly full’ but nevertheless still wanting dessert or, to end this metaphor, to see more of you.

17, Feb, 2010

Four Stages of Recovery

www.desktopmag.com.au Catherine Wiggett, Senior Creative Agent, Aquent Sydney The GFC took some stuffing out of us all over these past 12 months. However, what the past year has allowed us to do is really take stock of our clients, our business, the creative industry and where we all fit within it. Recruitment is of course the core business of Aquent, so I thought it would be interesting to define the ‘four stages of recovery’ model vs. what we at Aquent have experienced throughout our Australia/New Zealand region focussing on the recruitment demand. This analysis will also help us all plan ahead for the future in terms of temporary and permanent hires.

10, Feb, 2010

Freelancing: A way of life!

www.desktopmag.com.au Tim McNamara, Aquent Creative Agent, Brisbane, Australia As permanent hiring dipped dramatically throughout 2009 and redundancies were – for a time — rife throughout parts of our industry, many creatives were for the first time faced with a tough decision: hold out for another full-time position, or try a stint at freelancing?...

01, Feb, 2010

Going, going, gone...

Desktop Magazine, Australia Tim McNamara, Aquent Creative Agent, Brisbane, Australia Employers not focused on retaining their best and brightest face a talent exodus as the market heats up, writes Aquent creative agent Tim McNamara.

01, Feb, 2010

Bathing in Boston’s beauty

Marketing Magazine, Australia Tim McNamara, Aquent Creative Agent, Brisbane, Australia Home to a rich history and a progressive economy, Boston is no storm in a teacup, says Tim McNamara.

22, Nov, 2009

Upturn brings year of churn

Herald on Sunday, New Zealand Andrea Milner, Journalist Employers will face a year of "churn", when unhappy employees, held hostage during the recession, look for something better as the economy recovers.

18, May, 2010

Aquent’s Market Eye Survey Points Towards Staff Growth in Digital and Media Across Greater China

Global marketing and design staffing company Aquent has released its 2010 Greater China Aquent Market Eye, a snapshot of hiring intentions and salary predictions for the marketing and design industries across Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

26, Apr, 2010

Aquent Joins as the Official Career Sponsor of the 14th Annual Webby Award

The Webby Awards announced that Aquent has joined as the Official Career Sponsor of the 14th Annual Webby Awards, held in New York City on June 14, 2010.

20, Apr, 2010

Aquent Announces Its Latest New Product Offering - ReviewPad

An inexpensive web-based solution to share designs and files, collect feedback, and manage approvals

14, Apr, 2010

Aquent adds new creative and marketing recruiters to team in Adelaide

Global marketing, design and digital staffing agency – Aquent – has hired experienced marketing Agent, Alex Kenning and returning creative Agent, Margaret Hilliard to its Adelaide team.

23, Oct, 2009

Aquent Awarded 2009 Webaward for Outstanding Website by Web Marketing Association

Aquent Honored in Employment Web Category

18, Aug, 2009

Wolda ’09 judges announced

Milan, Italy - Wolda, the Worldwide Logo Design Annual, announces the distinguished panel of 30 independent judges that will select the winning entries for its ‘09 edition.

05, Aug, 2009

Aquent survey reveals a glimmer of optimism across the marketing and design industry with freelance and contractor numbers set to rise

Auckland, New Zealand - Global marketing, design and digital staffing leader, Aquent, has just released the Aquent Market Eye – a report designed to supplement The Aquent Orange Book to provide the industry with updated insights relating to staff salaries, hiring trends and predictions across both permanent and freelance/contract staff in Australia and New Zealand.

03, Aug, 2009

Aquent survey reveals a glimmer of optimism across the marketing and design industry with permanent hiring intentions set to rise

Sydney, Australia - Global marketing, design and digital staffing leader, Aquent, has just released the Aquent Market Eye – a report designed to supplement The Aquent Orange Book to provide the industry with updated insights relating to staff salaries, hiring trends and predictions across both permanent and freelance/contract staff in Australia and New Zealand.

13, Jul, 2009

Aquent hires new advertising and media specialist in Beijing

- Sky Lee joins Aquent Beijing as Team Leader, Advertising & Media -

01, Jul, 2009

Aquent hires new marketing and communications team leader in Melbourne

Cameron Davidson joins Aquent in Melbourne as Team Leader, Marketing & Communications

20, Jul, 2010

DMA Webinar: Deploying Social Media To Generate Customer Loyalty

In this presentation you'll obtain vital information about which metrics your colleagues and competitors are using to measure the effectiveness of social platforms, how they rank the platforms and how many customers they're engaging. Find out how your spending stacks up against the budgets other companies allocate to social media efforts, what dollar percentage the others are earmark for each platform and how they're sourcing social media funding.

21, Jul, 2010

July LA Flash Adobe User Group (LAFAUG) Meeting

At the Rich Media Institute – 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291<p>

Join us on Adobe Connect Pro: http://bit.ly/laflashlive<p>

FREE EVENT | FREE PARKING | FREE BEER | NO RSVP

22, Jul, 2010

Packaging: Tying It All Together, Free Webinar

In this free webinar, PaperSpecs and Neenah Paper will show designers why packaging is an essential design tool in developing a successful brand today.

22, Jul, 2010

Mobile Monday and BostInnovation

It’s a summer block party! Mobile Monday and BostInnovation have teamed up with Downtown Crossing for an open outdoor networking event. It’s a hot and steamy summer out there in the city, cool off with some live music, enticing performances, cold drinks and mobile technologies at our summer block party!

24, Jul, 2010

Internet User Experience 2010

IUE2010, the sixth annual conference, brings you top industry speakers, practitioners, and authors to provide you with the most complete package of Internet user experience design training, case studies, and real-world examples ever assembled.

We cover most aspects of web site design and strategy, including user experience design, graphics, branding, social

03, Aug, 2010

AMA Webcast: Quantifying Social Media Value and Impact on the Bottom Line

One of the biggest challenges interactive marketers face is putting a dollar value on the exposure and engagement generated by their social media campaigns. By applying proven, predictive customer experience analytics to measure the impact of social media, marketers can quantify the causal effect on customer behaviors that drive purchase and ROI.

05, Aug, 2010

Usability Bootcamp 2010

The most important asset of your design team is the information you gather about your users. When your team has the right information, it's easier to design usable, delightful, and successful products. When you don't, every little design decision is difficult.

We've created the two-day Usability Bootcamp to share proven techniques for understanding your users, gathering user feedback, and evaluating your designs. Expert usability professional, Christine Perfetti, has put together a fabulous program designed to improve your user research, usability testing, and evaluation skills.

10, Aug, 2010

AMA: Marketing ROI Techniques: D.C.

This marketing ROI workshop is delivered by Jim Lenskold, author of the award winning book, “Marketing ROI: The Path to Campaign Customer, and Corporate Profitability” and incorporates the Lenskold Group’s experience working with Fortune 500 and emerging mid-size companies in B2C and B2B environments. This two-day course will take you through the basics as well as more advanced marketing ROI techniques. It is best-suited to marketing managers, analysts, researchers, and executives in medium and large companies that have reasonable access to sales data and resources to dedicate to measurements. Through interactive presentation and discussion, participants will learn how to use measurements, analytics, and financial discipline to guide the development of more profitable strategies and tactical marketing campaigns.

12, Aug, 2010

AMA Digital Centered Marketing 2010: Chicago

In this AMA Hot Topic Briefing Digital-Centered Marketing: A Marketer’s Secret Weapon, participants will explore the world beyond the Internet to better understand and immediately seize the opportunities existing in digital marketing.

13, Aug, 2010

AMA: Identity Imperative: Boston

This institutional identity workshop will cover all of the issues you need to think about as you prepare to launch an initiative to develop your institution’s brand strategy. This two-day course will quickly review the basics and then delve deeply into the critical issues of internal branding, generating buy-in, qualitative and quantitative research, positioning statements, working with creative firms, organizational structure and budgeting, and living your brand over the long-term. Every session will include audience participation to ensure participants walk away with new knowledge that can be applied within their own organization’s unique situation.

Nov, 2009

Aquent wins Best Multi-National Agency and Best Agency Website at the Recruitment Excellence Awards

For the second year running, Aquent wins Best Multi-National Agency and for the first time, Best Agency Website, at the 2009 Recruitment Excellence Awards (REA) in Australia.

Oct, 2009

Aquent Awarded 2009 WebAward for Outstanding Website by Web Marketing Association

Aquent awarded "Outstanding Achievement in Web Development” in the employment category

Sep, 2009

Aquent awarded Runner Up Best Specialist Recruiter (Medium category) at the Australian SEEK Awards

Australia’s recruitment industry celebrated in style on 25 September, as the jobseeker’s favourites were honoured at the SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards (SARAs) in Australia.

Nov, 2008

The Boston Globe 100’s Top Places to Work ‘08

Aquent has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the debut of an employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. The Globe 100’s Top Places to Work magazine was published in the Sunday Globe on November 9. Online, the report can be found at boston.com/business

Oct, 2008

Best Multi-National Agency

Sydney - At the inaugural Thomson Reuters Recruitment Excellence Awards, Aquent was awarded the Best Multi-National Agency.

Jan, 2007

National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Corporate Plus® designation

Awarded in 2007 the highest designation for a minority supplier by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) - the coveted Corporate Plus® designation.

Jan, 2006

John Deere Achieving Excellence Program Partner-level Supplier

Recognized as a Partner-level supplier for 2006 in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program for the eighth consecutive year.

Jan, 2006

SEEK Recruitment Awards 2006 Best Specialist Recruiter

Recognized as the 2006 Best Specialist Recruiter (in the large category) in the SEEK Recruitment Awards (SARAs) in Australia.

Jan, 2003

Consulting Magazine “Top 10 Consulting Firms”

Recognized in 2003 by Consulting Magazine as one of the world’s “Top 10 Consulting Firms” for employee morale, operational effectiveness, and quality of leadership.

Jan, 2002

Vault Top 50 Most Prestigious Consulting Firms

Rated one of the “Top 50 Most Prestigious Consulting Firms” in the world by Vault in 2002.

Jan, 2000

Harvard Business School Case Study

Subject of a Harvard Business School case study, “Building Loyalty Among a Contingent Workforce,” which for a time was taught to every MBA student.

Jan, 2000

British Academy Award Nominee

Nominated for British Academy Award in 2000 in Interactive Factual category.

Jan, 1992

12th Fastest Growing Private Company

Ranked on the Inc. 500 list as the 12th fastest growing private company in America in 1992.

Find out more about Aquent’s current business and our history. If you would like to speak with someone at Aquent, please contact publicrelations@aquent.com.

Fact Sheet

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aquent is a global staffing agency with 73 offices in 18 countries. The company has European headquarters in London, UK, and Asia Pacific headquarters in Sydney, Australia.

Aquent US and Canada Businesses

Aquent
    Staffing
    Solutions
    On Demand
Aquent Healthcare Consulting

Aquent International

Aquent operates in Australia, Greater China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

Businesses

Aquent Staffing
Eloquent Staffing
Studios
Training

Global combined 2008 revenue:
$ 450 million

Workforce

10,000 employees worldwide.

Founders
John Chuang, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aquent
Steve Kapner, Co-founder and Managing Director, Aquent
Mia Wenjen, Co-founder and Director, Aquent

Senior Management
Larry Bolick, CIO
Nunzio Domilici, CFO
Mike Smith, COO

International Management
Greg Savage, International CEO
Ann Webster, President, North America

History

In 1986 three Harvard University classmates started a desktop publishing business in their dorm room. As a side business they acted as talent agents for their friends, connecting designers they knew with creative projects. That side business (originally called MacTemps) quickly became their main focus, with operations spreading across the United States and, in 1991, overseas.

Over the years, Aquent has frequently been referred to as innovative, pioneering, and progressive. “From the beginning we wanted to do things differently from other staffing firms,” explains co-founder and CEO, John Chuang.

“For instance, in 1992 we were the first agency in the US to offer comprehensive and affordable healthcare and retirement benefits to our talent. People said we’d be bankrupt in a year. Turns out we weren’t. In fact, we ended up establishing a new standard for for the industry.”

Harvard Business School was so intrigued by Aquent’s ‘crazy’ approach that they wrote a case study examining how Aquent built loyalty among the contingent workforce, a study that was taught to every MBA student.

Today, Aquent talent work with many of the world’s most valuable and well-known brands. We have over 70 offices in 18 countries with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.