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Are you multi-skilled? The Aquent Orange Book
While the talent shortage rolls on in the creative industry, finding multi-skilled staff has emerged as a key factor in the latest annual Aquent Asia Pacific salary survey, The Aquent Orange Book 2006-2007. It's a new and accelerating trend in Australia's ongoing talent shortage, as the shift in communications spend from traditional to... More…
What Are You Worth? Aquent releases its 2005-2006 Salary Monitor
An acute shortage of creative talent in Australia and the rest of Asia Pacific is highlighted in the Aquent 2005-2006 Salary Monitor. Aquent is a global firm specialising in staffing solutions in the creative, marketing and communications industries and has collected specific data on the dynamics of the creative services sector in Australia. The... More…
Top 10 Resume Mistakes
by Dr Aquent (aka Matthew Grant) In a perfect world, we would always be able to apply for jobs in person. That way, we could let our future bosses and colleagues see how great we are in the flesh. Our personality, charm and intelligence could make an immediate and indelible impression. We'd get hired on the spot. Alas, we do not live in that... More…
Creative employment update 2003, by Aquent
Encouraging outlook for creative professionals in Australia As a global staffing agency specialising in the Creative, Marketing and Communications industries and proud career partner of AGDA, Aquent is in the unique position of having its finger on the pulse of employment trends in the Australian and global Creative job markets. Our team in... More…
What's So Special About Specializations?
by Tina Jackson, Aquent Whether you've chosen a particular specialization as a design professional or not, you may have thoughts about what it would be like on the other side of the fence. Even more importantly, you may wonder if it's too late in your career to make a switch. For anyone who hires designers, it is usually clear what kind of... More…
Design employment update
by Karen Theobald As a specialist staffing agency for creative, web and tech, Aquent keeps a close eye on employment trends in the Australian creative job market in order to advise designers how they should be positioning themselves to secure the best opportunities in 2002. Design specialisation with cross-media experience is the key to securing... More…
Is this the right job for me?
by Christina Jackson Within minutes of starting what he thought was a dream job, Bob was living a nightmare. There he was... an award-winning graphic designer with state-of-the-art technical skills, sitting at his desk, staring at a (gasp!) Quadra 650. It was as if he had been dropped into the angst of a Lichtenstein graphic, sans humor. His new... More…
It's tough finding work right now - why?
by Andrew Lam-Po-Tang I was recently contacted by a design graduate regarding the current difficulty in finding a job. Excerpts of the email follows: "I am writing to you in regards to the general state of the Graphic Design Industry at the moment. I am a graduate of Graphic Design and have since July been looking for work in the industry. To my... More…
Is it a good time to go freelance?
by Matthew T. Grant, PhD If you are a web designer/developer and haven't been living in a shoebox then you realize that the job climate right now is different from the climate this time last year (or even last fall). Given the decline of the dotcoms and the shrinkage of various tech businesses, more folks are looking for work and many are asking... More…
Aquent Thinking Out Loud Video : Arresting approval pain
The road to creative approvals doesn't have to be a long and bumpy ride. In the newest Design Thinking Out Loud video, AdWeek Southwest Creative All-Star Lana Rigsby reveals how she helps market leaders such as Capitol One, Dell, and TimeLife Books make their approval processes smoother, more productive and—incredible as it might... More…
