Acer CEO J.T. Wang announced he is resigning after several quarters of "poor financial results."
“Acer encountered many complicated and harsh challenges in the past few years," reads a statement Wang delivered to the company. "With the consecutive poor financial results, it is time for me to hand over the responsibility to a new leadership team to path the way for a new era.”
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He will be replaced by President Jim Wong. Wang will serve as CEO until Jan. 1 and as chairman until June 2014. He had served as CEO since 2005.
Wang's resignation came after the company posted a $446 million net loss — Acer's largest to date — in its third quarter. The company is also cutting 7% of its work force as a cost-cutting measure. Like other PC companies, Acer has struggled as consumers have flocked to tablets. PC sales fell 11.4% globally in the second quarter versus the same period in 2013, according to IDC. The researcher also reported that Acer's shipments fell 32.6% year over year.
Acer lost $236 million in its second quarter. In Q1 Acer posted a modest net profit of $17.4 million. Over the past five years, Acer's stock price is down more than 57%.
The news comes just a day after BlackBerry announced that its CEO, Thorsten Heins, was also leaving the company.
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Meghan Molino's resume pops out for many reasons: Not only does it have a 3D feel but it also reveals the multiple dimensions of her personality.
"I'm a very visual person, and I wanted a resume that honed in on how I prefer to digest data and that also showcased my own creativity. I'm an out-of-the-box thinker. I didn't want a standard resume that on first glance makes you look like everyone else," said Molino, who is a product launch specialist.
Molino had Hagan Blount (whose resume is slide seven in this gallery) redesign her resume to further establish her online identity as a creative professional. "I love my current job, so I'm not necessarily on the market for something new."
Despite not actively looking for a new employer, Molino has created buzz around her skills. "What's been fascinating is to see who has approached me since publicizing this resume. It's a sort of vetting document. Corporate America may not 'get it,' but companies that embrace individuality and want their employees to be impactful, curious and take risks — they've loved it."
João Dornellas, a designer for YDreams, created this iPad app resume to show off his portfolio. It has been downloaded more than 2,200 times.
In need of a job, Claudio Nader turned his Facebook profile into what he dubs the first "FacebookCV," a curriculum vitae on his profile.
The FacebookCV landed him a gig as social media assistant and content editor for a web marketing agency in Milan, he said in a blog post.
If you'd like to mimic his efforts, check out the FacebookCV tutorial he wrote.
Jonathan Cropper has always felt that the standard text-driven resume needed a refresh.
"Resume design is a classic branding error. Institutional conformity in a design-driven world is a recipe for failure," said Cropper, a communications and branding expert.
Cropper wanted to give his resume a "futuristic, militaristic precision tone" to match his work style. (Hagan Blount, whose resume is slide seven in this gallery, designed the resume.)
"The map and SMS and QR codes on that document also communicate that I have a global and digital mindset," he added.
This Twitter-inspired resume comes to us from Rouyer Arnaud of France.
Although the design of the site resembles Twitter, Arnaud said all of the code was rewritten from scratch. When you click on a tweet, more information pops up on the right panel. Give it a go here.
"Who said resumes and CVs all have to be boring and official and unfunny? I'm too creative for that! I'll make a resume that looks like a Twitter account," Arnaud wrote in a tweet on his resume website.
Saidur Hossain added tags to his resume [PDF link].
It's a subtle, fun addition for a web designer's resume.
Hagan Blount's infographic resume is packed with visuals: a map, a chart, QR codes and logos.
"Jon (from slide four in this gallery) actually inspired me to create the resume," Blount said. "I'd seen the 'creative resume' posts from graphic designers but not from people looking for jobs outside that field.
"Jon showed me some of those resumes and postulated that they would become the de facto standard. I agreed and made one over the course of the next few days, and Jon was my first client. I sent it to a few friends on Facebook, and when I saw the massive amount of hits I had [on] my site the next day, I started pushing it harder and it ended up being published all over the world."