H O T T A L E N T
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 - "Transformer"
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HOT TALENT
The bad news is that our Hot Talent Newsletter is going on vacation next week.
The good news? We'll still have more than 20 Agents and Account Directors in our office waiting to help you find the best
Designers
Flash Gurus
Coordinators
Traffic Managers
Marketing Strategists
Production Artists
...on the market!
But let's live in the present, shall we?
Because here's another stunning list of available, and awesome, Aquent Talent for your perusal!
And you'll see this email again in two weeks (which is standard for a Newsletter's vacation).
Follow the links for profiles, samples, and resumes.
Enjoy!
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FEATURED TALENT THIS WEEK
Joshua N. - Graphic Design | Production
Lauren W. - Copy Editor | Proofreader
J. P. - Presentations Specialist
Victor P. - Project Manager | Process Writer
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Joshua N.
Graphic Design | Production
Both PC and Mac savvy, Joshua simply ripped it up on both of our incredibly complex, hands-on Quark and Photoshop assessments.
Joshua was a top Talent for our NY office at clients such as Time Magazine, Silver Editions, Genex (working on the Lexus site), The Princeton Review and at Teleflora here in good ol' LA.
Whether flowing text and graphics and creating templates or manipulating images in Photoshop and crafting page layouts, he did it all with blazing speed. A staff member at the Newseum in NY, he was fully responsible for all stages of design and printing for window presentations, posters, and flyers for all the museum's exhibitions.
Recently earning his MFA in Fine Art from Art Center, his excellent demeanor and hands-on skills make him the perfect fit for any company needing incredible (and fast) production and graphics work!
Click here to see his on-line Aquent profile.
Desired Work: Freelance
Skills: Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress
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Lauren W.
Copy Editor | Proofreader
If you're looking for a seasoned Proofreader, Copy Editor, and Fact Checker who's worked in every industry imaginable, then read on!
Lauren comes to us with 10+ years of experience working for companies like Time Inc., Ticketmaster, INK Advertising Group, Citysearch, Saks Fifth Avenue, Amgen, Terry Hines & Associates, Jack Morton Worldwide, Propaganda Films, and many, many more.
Her roster of high-profile accounts includes Honda/Acura, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, New Line Cinema, Disney, and Warner Brothers.
An extraordinary eye for detail teamed with an industrious attitude, she's the resourceful, vigilant talent you've been dreaming of!
Click here to see her on-line Aquent profile.
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, WordPerfect, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Real Audio
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J.P.
Presentations Specialist
A jam-packed background creating, editing, and proofreading charts, graphs, tables, animations and more in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, J.P. is a professional presentations powerhouse.
Working with clients and leading teams of 8, he's created, project managed, and implemented tons of high-profile presentations for the likes of Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Amgen.
Whether you already have eye-catching graphs and charts or an incoherent mass of Post-It notes, if you want your presentation to go off with a bang, call us about J.P.!
Click here to see his on-line Aquent profile.
Desired Work: Freelance & Permanent
Skills: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word
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Victor P.
Project Manager | Process Writer
A Project Manager with years of sales support experience, Victor was most recently at AT&T as liaison between the Product Managers, the Sales Team, and Call Centers.
Using his savvy customer relations, analysis, content management, and troubleshooting experience Victor helped improve processes and speed sales cycles; create and maintain three in-house online reference systems; and plan, direct, and manage projects through to their successful completion.
His utility belt of skills includes TeamSite Content Management system, which he used to make sure product information was absolutely accurate in AT&T's online system utilized by the sales force.
If your current processes have more holes than aged Swiss Emmental, you know who to call, right?
Click here to see his on-line Aquent profile.
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THAT BIT AT THE END
"Transformer"
Most of what I've become, I believe, can be blamed on my father. The man was a relentless tinkerer and decided one evening to switch the voice box of my Redondo Beach Darby with the one from my brother's Mercenary Mike action figure.
So, come Saturday morning, my Darby doll began warning anyone walking outside her tiny condo about things like incoming mortar attacks and booby traps.
As you can well imagine, this affected me in many ways when it came to playing with friends.
I was, for one, embarrassed each and every time I brought my Darby over to my friends' houses. Mostly because my doll was apt to shout "Time to reload my crossbow!" or threaten to wallop their dolls with her powerful karate chop (a feature she didn't actually have).
Two, Darby and I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out which one of my friend's dolls worked as a double agent for that conniving Dr. X. (Oh, how I was always on the lookout for his tell-tale laser red eye!)
Darby began to lead a double life. Yes, she looked stunning arriving at a party in a hot pink tricot bodysuit under her ruffled skirt (cinched at the waist with a wide silvery belt), but then she'd complain loudly that someone had eaten her C-rations. After taking a turn on the dance floor with Ben or one of the many other clean-shaven men dolls, she'd sit down with them and complain about the terrible jungle heat.
And so it went that my Redondo Darby stopped drinking tea or joining the others at the faux BBQ for fear that someone in the perfect little cocktail dress would poison her.
In her own condo, instead of cementing her relationship with her girlfriends by hosting late night gab sessions, she would badger them to load missiles into the Assault 'Copter or sweep the place for listening devices.
Taking the lead from Darby, during my formative years I never really learned to do many of those things that every little girl should: visiting with friends, discussing feelings, checking out boys, or shopping endlessly for clothes and accessories. Instead I became obsessed with the mysterious assault on Silo 66, about which Darby would speak with greater and greater frequency.
What is a "top ranking NCO?" How far is a "click"? These questions plagued me while my geometry teacher prattled on about the Pythagorean theorem.
I became less involved with my friends, whose dolls Patina and Clarisse were forever quarrelling about who had the cutest top or which was the best mall.
It didn't really seem to matter, especially if we were going to take down the perplexing Silo 66 at 1700 hours on any given day.
It was right then that I made the difficult decision to give Darby the makeover of makeovers. It was inevitable. You get a pink taffeta dress stuck on a grappling hook just once. It's a lesson you don't repeat.
Besides, Darby felt more comfortable in fatigues than a halter-top.
She moved out of her condo after an argument with her roommates over foreign policy turned into a slapping contest (it was one of the few times I actually did wish Darby had a karate chop).
And soon she found a nice bunker to share with two men named Redwolf and Flynt who, like her, preferred fingerless black gloves to arm length ones.
And she never looked back.
Neither did I.
And though it's been nearly 15 years since I was an adolescent, when shopping for clothes I will inevitably veer toward the camouflaged or at least black ones. And in sporting goods stores I can never walk by the crossbows without picking one up.
Sadly, the assault on Silo 66 never did materialize, and its location remains forever a mystery.
I still do have Darby in a box up in my closet. And I still take her out every once in awhile just to hear her gravelly voice just for old time's sake.
And whenever I'm at a party and a woman in the perfect little cocktail dress offers me a drink, I always tell her, as Darby would have if she were there instead of me, "Not on my watch, bub".
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