I recently completed an internship at ACA for my applied informatics studies at university college PXL. In this blog post, I’d like to share my experience and some things I learned during my internship at ACA! 1. Perseverance During my first month I learned to persevere. I spent most of my time alone and scouring the web, researching for [...]
Bryan Deferm
A positive company culture and a stimulating work environment is becoming more and more important to employees. Employee happiness increasingly ranks as one of the top reasons why people stay with a certain company and is, of course, very much linked to a company’s culture. In this blog post, I’d like to take a look at our own culture [...]
Stijn Schutyser
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague, Dorien from Marketing, asked me: “Hi Thomas, how did you experience your first weeks as a Business Developer at ACA?” Well Dorien, it’s my pleasure to share my first experience with you & all our readers. Stepping out of your comfort zone As from 02/01, I started a new challenge, [...]
Dorien Jorissen
Time for the second movie in our ACA Team Movie blog series! In our last blog we covered how our team was faced with an ACA movie challenge on the yearly ACA Team Weekend. The entire team was split up into separate groups with the challenge to create an advertorial or recruiting movie about ACA. Every team had the company of a [...]
Dorien Jorissen
ACA Team Movie: What if ACA was a café? What if our IT company was a café? Quite the statement for a team video, right? Allow me to set the scene for a minute… This video is the first of 7 awesome videos made by the ACA team on our annual ACA Team Weekend. Every year, the entire ACA team travels to a unique location and spends an [...]
Dorien Jorissen
In my almost 20 years (getting old!) of professional life I have worked at and for quite some companies. I’ve come to realise there is no such thing as an ideal company. There is never a 100% fit; except maybe a company you created yourself. The happiness-factor For me, the happiness-factor is composed of 4 dimensions: company culture [...]
Dorien Jorissen
Imagine…you’ve been driving to a certain place A place you have been driving to every day for the last 5 years, taking the same route, passing the same abandoned street, where you’ve never seen another car. Gradually you start feeling familiar with this route and you assume that as always you will be the only car on [...]
Dorien Jorissen
Customer Drawings For years I have been thinking of combining the best of my two professions as an analist and artist. Analytical in finding creative solutions in a realistic world on the other hand and a crafter in an imaginary world where there are no limits on the other hand. Learn to capture the essence I was inspired during a [...]
Mark Kromski
Time for part 2 of our blog series with a detailed overview of the AngularNL Conference highlights! In this part of the blog series we will give you an overview with the most memorable highlights of these talks: Olivier Combe: “Lazy load anything using ocLazyLoad” Kent C. Dodds: “JSON Powered Forms” Lazy load [...]
Niels Berghen
It’s never easy to start a new job, is it? This is a question I got a couple of times over the past few weeks. People seem to think that starting a new job is always something of a hassle. The question is, should it be? Allow me to introduce myself My name is Rowin Heymans, I’m 30 years old, married and father of an amazing little [...]
Rowin Heymans
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