• 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.

• iMedia Brand Summit

  12, Sep, 2010

  Explore today's most innovative digital and traditional marketing strategies and services this September in San Diego with over 130 senior brand marketers, their peers and their partners.

  Savvy marketers now have a wealth of digital tools at their disposal - online display, search, mobile, social media. The iMedia Summit provides a rich environment to chart your company's digital future among peer-level executives, industry thought leaders and select publishers and service providers. The Summit is designed for results-oriented brand marketers and partners who are looking to build more effective digital strategies in an ever-shifting marketing and media landscape.

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

  15, Sep, 2010

  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.

• 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

12, Sep, 2010

iMedia Brand Summit

Explore today's most innovative digital and traditional marketing strategies and services this September in San Diego with over 130 senior brand marketers, their peers and their partners.

Savvy marketers now have a wealth of digital tools at their disposal - online display, search, mobile, social media. The iMedia Summit provides a rich environment to chart your company's digital future among peer-level executives, industry thought leaders and select publishers and service providers. The Summit is designed for results-oriented brand marketers and partners who are looking to build more effective digital strategies in an ever-shifting marketing and media landscape.

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.

23, Sep, 2010

DMA Webinar: Using Google Analytics and Other Google Tools to Improve Search Results and Conversions

Join us for a live webinar on Thursday, September 23rd at 1PM EST / 10 AM PST as we'll roll up our sleeves and show you how to leverage Google Analytics and some other fascinating Google programs. When the webinar is over, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to log-in to Google Analytics (or Google program) and extract valuable, actionable insights from your data and apply your knowledge to your website and your marketing campaigns.

21, Sep, 2010

2010 ERA D2C Convention: The One Show for Direct to Consumer Marketing

The 2010 ERA D2C Convention is produced by the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA), the only trade association in the U.S. and internationally that represents leaders of the direct-to-consumer marketplace, which includes members that maximize revenues through electronic retailing on television, online and on radio

20, Oct, 2010

DMA Webinar: Variable-Content Marketing

As marketers we are all in the middle of ground-breaking changes that are re-defining direct marketing. Digital and conventional tactics are overlapping and intermingling. Social media is now a part of our world. Do you see the glass half empty or half full? See how organizations are embracing the changes – and coming out ahead. Specifically, you'll see how organizations are upgrading their direct marketing to be more relevant and engaging by fusing actionable insights from their databases with cross-channel delivery tactics and tracking.

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.