• 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?

• City of Angels or Bust

  30, Apr, 2010

  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.

• Aquent And AMA Announce 2010 Marketing Salary Survey Results & New Interactive Website

  07, Jul, 2010

  There is guarded optimism that things are improving in marketing, since marketers are seeing a slight increase in compensation and budgets in 2010.

• Aquent and AIGA Announce Publication of Design Salaries

  27, May, 2010

  2010 Survey also provides recommendations & advice for staying competitive in a new economy

• Behance / AIGA LA Meetup

  09, Sep, 2010

  Come join us at the Behance / AIGA LA Meetup Thursday, September 9. It will be a casual evening where members of the Behance community and AIGA LA can gather and mingle over cocktails and shoestring fries in the swanky Venice restaurant, Beechwood.

• Communications Arts: Typography Competition

  10, Sep, 2010

  Promote your talent—enter our inaugural juried competition celebrating the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus original typeface design, calligraphy and hand lettering.

  If selected, your award-winning work will be beautifully reproduced in the 2011 Typography Annual, and on the Communication Arts Web site, assuring a prominent place on the premier stage of the industry.

• 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?

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.

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.

02, Nov, 2009

You can in San Fran!

Marketing Magazine, Australia Tim McNamara, Aquent Creative Agent, Brisbane, Australia Australian marketers wanting a Californian sea change are also likely to be seduced by the charms of überhip San Francisco, Tim McNamara discovers.

05, Oct, 2009

Start spreading the news

Marketing Magazine, Australia Tim McNamara, Aquent Creative Agent, Brisbane Tim McNamara learns that things in New York are on the way up with opportunities for flexible, determined marketers.

18, Aug, 2009

Aquent.us – Freelance Sites, Tools of the Trade

Freelance Weekly Freelance Weekly Freelance Weekly reviews the Aquent.us website as a tool for freelancers to connect with Agents.

17, Aug, 2009

Social Media + Email Marketing: One Company Doing It Right

The WebMarketCentral Blog Tom Pick Though social media is all the rage, email marketing also remains strong, with 85% of companies planning to increase spending in this area in the second half of 2009 according to a recent study. Email in many cases is taking budget dollars away from other channels because it remains reasonably effective, highly measurable and relatively inexpensive...

07, Jul, 2009

Are you getting the most out of your paid search activities?

The SEMPO Institute Standard Eric Waldinger Staffing Trends - Search Engine Marketing should be the most cost and results effective online marketing medium. Optimizing search campaigns from branded, geo and vertical key words, as well as, landing pages, are key to successful Search Engine Marketing.

07, Jul, 2010

Aquent And AMA Announce 2010 Marketing Salary Survey Results & New Interactive Website

There is guarded optimism that things are improving in marketing, since marketers are seeing a slight increase in compensation and budgets in 2010.

27, May, 2010

Aquent and AIGA Announce Publication of Design Salaries

2010 Survey also provides recommendations & advice for staying competitive in a new economy

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

22, Mar, 2010

Aquent Makes Inavero’s 2010 Best of Staffing™ List

Aquent announced today that it has been named to Inavero’s inaugural Best of Staffing™ list. Best of Staffing, presented in partnership with CareerBuilder, is the nation’s only client satisfaction award that recognizes exceptional client service in the staffing and recruiting industry.

18, Feb, 2010

Aquent IT Solutions earns recognition as a John Deere “Partner-level Supplier” and Ten-Year Hall of Fame Supplier

East Moline, IL – Aquent IT Solutions has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2009 and was inducted into the supplier Hall of Fame in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program.

19, Jan, 2010

Aquent Launches Website About Websites Called InternetOnlineWebsite.com

Aquent, the global leader in marketing and design staffing, announced the launch of an interactive website called InternetOnlineWebsite.com, which is a website ABOUT websites (and marketing, direct mail, graphic design, etc.). It’s been specially designed to educate, enlighten, and delight those who are looking to add to their online presence and marketing initiatives, and it shows marketers and designers the people they need to get the job done.

23, Oct, 2009

Aquent Awarded 2009 Webaward for Outstanding Website by Web Marketing Association

Aquent Honored in Employment Web Category

07, Jul, 2009

Aquent Announces Partnership with Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization Institiute

Alliance to Provide Training Benefits to Aquent Talent

24, Jun, 2009

Aquent Honored as Minority Business of the Year

Aquent’s Phoenix office was recently named the 2009 Minority Business of the Year (Large Class MBE) by the Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council (GCMSDC).

09, Sep, 2010

Behance / AIGA LA Meetup

Come join us at the Behance / AIGA LA Meetup Thursday, September 9. It will be a casual evening where members of the Behance community and AIGA LA can gather and mingle over cocktails and shoestring fries in the swanky Venice restaurant, Beechwood.

10, Sep, 2010

Communications Arts: Typography Competition

Promote your talent—enter our inaugural juried competition celebrating the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus original typeface design, calligraphy and hand lettering.

If selected, your award-winning work will be beautifully reproduced in the 2011 Typography Annual, and on the Communication Arts Web site, assuring a prominent place on the premier stage of the industry.

10, Sep, 2010

AIA/LA Design Awards 2010

Annual exhibit of all the submissions for Awards competition. Opening event on September 10 will include a Round Table discussion and reception.

13, Sep, 2010

The WAA Seattle Web Analytics Symposium

The WAA Seattle Web Analytics Symposium will bring together web analytics and business professionals from throughout the Northwest for a day of learning, professional development and networking.

13, Sep, 2010

AMA Identity Imperative: Boston

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.

14, Sep, 2010

ThinkLA: AIEF Charity Golf Day

Charity golf tournament benefitting the Advertising Industry Emergency Fund (AIEF), along with other programs of thinkLA.

Since 1972, AIEF has granted over $2 million in emergency money to individuals in the Southern California advertising and promotions community, including fire, earthquake and landslide victims. Those with life-threatening illnesses have been helped with medical bills and other expenses. When your colleagues have no other means of support, AIEF provides funds to get them back on track.

15, Sep, 2010

AMA Webinar: Social Media Marketing to Women: What Every Brand Needs to Know

n this informative webinar, Pontiflex, the industry’s leading email and social acquisition platform, and Leapfrog Interactive, an award winning digital agency, team up to share exclusive insights on how to use online advertising to connect with women in the places where they get information, shop, and share ideas.

16, Sep, 2010

ThinkLA: Gaming Breakfast

"Power of Play"

Come learn how play is changing the future of digital marketing and how marketers can resonate with consumers through play by incorporating the fundamental tenets of gaming in all of their digital marketing.

16, Sep, 2010

Aquent Proudly Sponsors All 5 cities of An Event Apart!

Three down, 2 to go!

Events are linked below:

Washington, DC = Sept 16-18 

San Diego, CA = Nov 1-2 

16, Sep, 2010

FITC Mobile (Toronto)

Learn the hottest trends in mobile marketing and development for a wide variety of platforms and devices - we'll see you there!

Aquent Discount Code = $50 off (aquent2010)

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.

Jun, 2009

Minority Business of the Year

Aquent won Minority Business of the Year Class 4 at the Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council's Annual Conference

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.