Entries from January 2010 ↓

To be honest?  I hate recruiting and try to get out of it any way I can.  Unfortunately, I’m really good at it which is why so many of my small companies are willing to pay my high hourly rate for this service.  Not being a certified HR recruiter I’ve amassed some harsh observations.  Harsh?  [...]

It sounds like a bad latin dance-floor move.  Pecha Kucha (pronounced “peh-cha koo-cha”).  But it seems to be all the rage in presentation styles these days: 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide.  Or, for those in the know: “20×20″.  Yup, 6 minutes and 40 seconds to get your point across.  It ties in nicely with [...]

As you may have noticed my clients have been on a hiring spree which is why I’ve been writing so much about different facets of the recruiting process.  Unfortunately, during the interviews, more than one candidate has asked me:
what’s your exit strategy?
Fair enough question, I guess.  But why aren’t they focusing on what the company [...]

There was a common theme amongst my friends this past holiday season: assessing their lives, work situations, relationships, etc.  It wasn’t just a new year it was a new decade! - and time for some big shifts.  A lot of them wanted to hear about new ventures I was working with in hopes of being [...]