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The Newsletter of Aquent's Available Talent
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Hot Talent
Featured Talent This Week
That Bit at the End - "Lady or Tiger?"
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HOT TALENT
In this issue, we are NOT giving away an all expense paid trip to Santa Barbara.
After much discussion, we thought it unfair to give a prize to only one of our lucky newsletter readers.
Instead, everyone getting this newsletter will receive write-ups on our newest, hottest available Aquent Talent with links to their profiles, samples and resumes!
Lucky you!
And if you try to reach us tomorrow and we're not here, we'd like you to know in advance that we are NOT in Santa Barbara.
Honestly.
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FEATURED TALENT THIS WEEK
Heather K. - Graphic Designer | Art Director
Maxine N. - Graphic Artist & Writer | Editor
Carmen C. - Marketing Professional
Doreen D. - Production Artist | Designer
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Heather K.
Graphic Designer | Art Director
OUCH!
That's what our Mac said after Heather blazed through both our Quark and Photoshop assessments in record time.
On top of that, she is an amazing Designer who is talented and funny.
Her satisfied client roster includes DreamWorks SKG, Geffen Records, Gramercy Pictures, Walt Disney Co., Tiger Beat & BOP, and a bevy of others for whom she's created everything from packaging and magazines to CD covers and ads.
A detailed hands-on wonder, she can take any of your ideas straight through from concept to production.
With red-hot speed!
See her on-line Aquent profile by clicking here.
Desired Work: Temporary and Permanent
Skills: Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator
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Maxine N.
Graphic Artist & Writer | Editor
Your one-stop shop!
What, you've never heard of a creative who can write copy, design collateral, and blaze through production at lightning speed?
Meet Maxine!
A creative Talent who blurs the line between graphic arts and creative writing, she's a Designer with excellent production skills and extensive experience at advertising agencies, design firms, and corporations.
A wiz with the written word, Maxine is an outstanding Copy Editor who's done work for the likes of Random House, Rolling Stone, Rubin Postaer, DDB Needham, Curtco Publishing, Sony Pictures, Lifetime Television, and so many more.
Talk about "one call does it all"!
See her on-line Aquent profile by clicking here.
Desired Work: Freelance
Skills: QuarkXPress, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Streamline, Flatbed Scanning
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Carmen C.
Marketing Professional
At mobile entertainment/broadband service Amp'd Mobile, Carmen managed the intricate relationship and interaction between Amp'd and their dedicated customer base. By creating attention-grabbing communications to members via e-mail, SMS, bill messaging, and IVR, she helped rapidly grow their subscribers base in no time.
Skilled at managing client and department relationships, she developed and implemented direct and e-mail campaigns, produced Web sites, created loyalty marketing programs, handled traffic/project management, and tracked success rates for 18 locations of California's largest boutique hotel management company, Joie de Vivre Hospitality.
If you need effective and efficient management of scores of deadline-oriented projects (she's an MS Access pro), call us about Carmen!
See her on-line Aquent profile by clicking here.
Desired Work: Permanent
Professional Categories: Account Management, Direct Marketing And CRM, Marketing, Other MarCom, Promotions
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Doreen D.
Production Artist | Designer
Able to design, coordinate, and develop internal and external visual communications in a single bound, Doreen is an organized self-starter who can effectively juggle multiple projects/deadlines and collaborate with managers, designers, and clients alike.
At places like The California Endowment, Disney, Kaiser Permanente, American Diabetes Association, and global architectural firm TetraTech, she's designed and produced brochures, proposal graphics, booth materials, Web graphics, calendars, promotional booklets, and pretty much any other corporate collateral you can think of, from concept to completion.
Savvy on Mac and PC, she's a pro on PowerPoint and Visio, creating presentations, charts, and graphs in a snap!
Why don't you call us and see for yourself?
See her on-line Aquent profile by clicking here.
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
Skills: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Word, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe PageMaker, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, CorelDRAW!, Adobe Acrobat, Lotus Freelance Graphics, Management
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THAT BIT AT THE END
Lady or Tiger?
Yesterday I was standing for a good period of time outside two restroom doors, one labeled "Bronco", the other "Cactus". I had been waiting someone exit, so I could at long last decipher which bathroom I was supposed to use.
After five minutes, I started to realize that I had spent too much time enjoying the fine drink and company in the other room and should have sorted this issue out much earlier. It was getting late for these kinds of decisions, if you understand what I mean.
There are, if you think of it, many similarities concerning broncos and cactuses. And an abundance of differences. My problem was that none of those differences lent themselves to conjure up an image of a man or woman.
I am not a dullard. I graduated cum laude from a well-respected university. Neither am I unfamiliar with so-called clever bathroom names, having seen my share of "Buoys" & "Gulls", "Laddies" & "Lassies", and "Bucks" & "Does" in my travels over the years.
I was even able to decipher, after being led by a series of "TO THE JOHNS" signs, the correct choice between two doors labeled "Elton John" & "Olivia Newton John" (though I did catch my breath as I entered the former).
Yet yesterday afternoon I stood there in front of these particularly enigmatic doors with time running out.
Years ago, when I was confronted with similar doors marked "Gilts" & "Shoats", I was fortunate enough to catch a young lady eventually exiting. In Hawaii, I opted to use the facilities at a gas station across the street from a restaurant where I'd just spent ten minutes trying to translate "Kane" and "Wahini". (I, by the way, am both a "Kane" and "Shoat", though the latter is pushing it, even by the low standards set up by the establishment).
I will also inform you that there is nothing worse than finishing up in a restroom (say, when the choice is between "Pointers & Strikers") only to be greeted by the opposite sex upon departure.
Many times I have avoided confusion at these establishments by simply noting the inevitable line outside a women’s room.
But I had no such fortune on this day.
I had waited an eternity and I could delay no more.
I impatiently summoned a passing employee and informed him I needed to use the facilities at once and demanded that he quickly inform me in which of these two rooms was I to relieve myself!
"I hope neither, sir," he answered. "These are both private dining rooms."
He looked me up and down then pointed to a door down the hall clearly marked "Men’s Room".
This story would not be worth retelling, nor particularly amusing, if I failed to add that upon returning to my table I told my colleagues nothing of the incident and kept each drinking until they absolutely had to make the same trip down the hallway.
Or that I'm taking my wife back tomorrow.
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