Years of experience? Could be handy to have. Groovin’ portfolio? Bring it. Soft spots for Comic Sans, Toronto Maple Leafs & Lady GaGa? Sure, what the heck.

Either way, get off Twitter and send us your resumé, a few references and a portfolio PDF file or web link (along with your best name idea for a pet) by 2:38 p.m., Friday, July 9, 2010.

To apply, please email:
Mike Woroniak, Chief Creative Officer @ mike.woroniak@arcas.com

PLEASE NOTE: Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

The Arcas Brand Lounge is our ongoing blog-like collection of perspectives, musings and insights to anything & everything brand-related, including some of our own work done for our growing list of clients.

Arcas team members strategically observe and discuss the wide, complex world of marketing on a continual basis – dissecting what other brands and markets are doing to stay ‘in shape’ within their competitive sets – and, as well, seeing how any of these observations can be applied to help our clients meet their marketing goals.

As you can see on our current list of posts, the topics can vary from denim jeans to dish soap detergent – all the way to good local eating establishments recommended by our staff to recent work we have delivered for our clients.

So pour yourself some Starbucks, Timmy’s or Folgers (or something maybe more in tune with a ‘lounge’ ambience) and enjoy our offerings. We also welcome you to sign-up as a follower if you wish – and article topic suggestions are always welcome. Please email us @ info@arcas.com with your thoughts.

http://arcasbrandlounge.blogspot.com/

In late May and early June, the Arcas Group will once again be honoured to be the MACU Masters Host & Presenting Sponsor for the Marketing Association for Credit Unions’ Strategic Marketing Conference and AIME Awards Gala Dinner “MACU Masters Competition” in Victoria, B.C.

The MACU Masters competition is an event that challenges credit union marketers to give their best creative and marketing performances over an eight hour period, resulting in completed and comprehensive marketing, advertising & media campaigns for 2 pre-selected not-for-profit organizations.

Having participated last year as the sponsor for the event in Quebec City, Arcas Chief Creative Officer Mike Woroniak noted, “The event is a tremendous testament to the credit union marketing industry and their commitment to the communities at large across Canada. We are very proud to be a sponsor and look forward to helping the event be
a major success yet again.”

With a client roster that includes 6 credit unions located in western Canada from Saskatchewan to B.C., the Arcas Group brings a depth of industry knowledge and talents to assist credit union brands in helping solve their brand marketing needs through such offerings as brand value proposition, brand research, brand identity and brand communications.

Dean Gagne, Chief Research & Strategy Officer, Arcas Group, is pleased to announce the addition of Shauna Stanley to the research and consulting team as Manager of Research.

With more than a decade of experience as a senior market researcher, Shauna joins to the firm with extensive experience in assessing issues and implementing both secondary and primary research methodologies – as well as providing sound client consulting advice.

Shauna’s career has seen her contribute to the development and implementation of research and communications projects for many key economic sectors, including: agriculture (policy and practices), financial services (day-to-day banking, lending, savings, investing and financial planning), oil and gas, mining, tourism, environment, healthcare, education (secondary and post-secondary), government services, insurance services, real estate and retail.

Shauna also serves in the community through various organizations including a current role as Co-Chair for the 2010 Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion event.

Haiti is quite simply the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere – a country where 70% of seven million inhabitants live on much less than a dollar a day. With extremely limited access to clean drinking water – and where over 30% of all children born don’t make it to the age of five years – it is also a land of visible instability and violence. Recently shattered by an unimaginable earthquake and its devastating, chaotic aftermath, Haiti needs our help in beginning
its long road to recovery.

Arcas Group Chairman, Mukesh Kapila, had heard first hand about the chaos and need required in the grief-stricken  country through longtime friend, Steve Clarke, and his wife, Dr. Tiffany Keenan.

In 2007, Dr. Keenan, a Canadian Emergency Physician,  founded Haiti Village Health – a dedicated group of medical professionals who all share a love of Haiti and a belief that access to health care & medicine is the right of everyone.

Haiti Village Health is dedicated to the provision of front line medical care, health education and nutritional support in places where no such services have ever existed.

“Dr. Keenan has done considerable volunteer work in Haiti over the past 5+ years”, noted Mukesh. “They have set up several medical clinics that provide basic needs such as civil works and clean water supplies. I am awestruck by their level of commitment and sacrifice. Their non-denominational charity is quite modest, but most importantly, one hundred percent of all donated dollars to their organization goes directly to the community. Arcas knows the importance of this first hand, through our experience of working with the many not-for-profit organizations across Canada that we have as clients.”

The management and staff at the Arcas Group ask you to visit the links below to learn more about Dr. Keenan & her work, and as well to consider donating to Haiti Village Health. Simply click on the ‘donate’ button once on the donate page.

Also included as links are the award-winning National Film Board documentary on Dr. Keenan’s work, ‘Narrating Haiti’ – directed by Monica Kidd – and Arcas Chief Creative Officer Mike Woroniak’s Haiti blogsite which features Haiti Donation Facebook ad images for posting as profile pictures to help spread awareness through the powerful social media medium.

http://www.haitivillagehealth.ca/

http://www.citizenshift.org/narrating-haiti-0

http://mikehaitiads.blogspot.com/

An inspiring and historical profile, Birth of a Boom recalls the stories of individuals and families who came to the province and worked hard in creating better lives for their families and communities over the generations.

“Despite popular misconceptions, this province has always had its share of entrepreneurs,” says Prairie Centre President and Arcas Group Chief Research & Strategy Officer, Dean Gagne . “I believe Birth of a Boom will help to continue to change perceptions and help inspire young people to stay in Saskatchewan. That’s why Prairie Centre will be donating copies of the book to every high school library in the province.”

The book features a foreword written by Dragon’s Den TV celebrity and Saskatchewan entrepreneur, W. Brett Wilson. The Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Saskatchewan has come onboard as a partner in the book, including it on its supplemental text list for all students in its program.

For additional information, please visit www.prairiecentre.com