Role play here with me for a minute. Let’s pretend that I’m your doctor. You called me and said you have a sore throat and a fever. Naturally, I schedule you to come in at my first possible opening – lets pretend it’s sometime on Friday. Well, I would imagine you’d be surprised if I called you on Friday, two hours before your aforementioned appointment, and said I had to reschedule because I have a more important appointment. But, you think, ok fine. You reschedule for my next open appointment on Monday. So on Monday you’re practically bleeding from the…

Now I’m not trying to stay on a politics kick but sometimes there are just interested stories that revolve around it. Especially since it’s an election year all eyes are on the candidates and their staff. It’s a historical year for politics. Not only is there a black man running for president but there is a woman running for vice president. It’s great. Anyways you have to wonder what runs through Obama’s head when anyone from his campaign team starts blowing up his phone. I’m sure it happened when Ludacris wrote his support Obama song, Obama is here. But just…

So you’ve finally landed your in-person interview at a highly creative, respected ad agency. You’ve done your research; you’ve prepared yourself and your family for a potential change or relocation. You’re starting feel really good about yourself…in fact, your confidence is sky-rocketing. You nailed your phone interview and they want to bring you in for the real deal. All your daydreams of the great creative work you’ll be doing and the awards you’ll be winning are no more. Now you’re dreaming of your own private office, your new title, the posh treatment you’ll be getting when they welcome you to…

I do it every year. I wait and wait for that one glorious Sunday night. Some years I’ll invite some friends over and make swanky pink cocktails, and other years I’ll opt to snuggle up in my jammies and pop some popcorn. Either way, I count down the minutes until…you guessed it…the Academy Awards (you can sub in the MTV Video Awards or the Soapies…whatever floats your boat)! I watch in wonderment as people like Brad, Angelina, Meryl and the occasional Pauly Shore walk down the red carpet, wave at their adoring fans and try not to squint when 8,000…

I have come to understand what Tom Petty meant when he said, “The Waiting is the hardest part”

For several reasons. I’m a recruiter waiting, waiting, waiting on my clients to make offers, make comments, even to call me back. I have candidates that have been interviewing for 4 MONTHS. Seriously. However, in the midst of all this – indigestion, shortness of breath, anxiety-ridden thinking, I have realized that I can only do so much to control the situation. More importantly, I understand my place in this process – I am trying to learn the art of being assertive without being…

This blog is dedicated to all of those things people do that beg the question, Why on earth would you do that?

Why on earth would you agree to schedule a phone interview and then not pick up the phone when the Creative Director calls you, twice? I understand that you are probably busy being unemployed as you are, possibly going for the world record on that new video game you bought. However, the creative world is a small one and if you keep this up the only person that will want to recruit for you is someone who is trying to get…

Yes, you read it correctly. I did not mean to say “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”…

We are in the business of recruiting, not the big screen. If you’ve recently found yourself saying or assuming things that you shouldn’t be saying or assuming then this is a must read! We all know anything and everything can happen in the world of recruiting, so take in the wise words of Howard Adamsky and think twice before making any assumptions.

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Are you ready for a SERIOUS 90’s throwback? Are you sure? Okay, here goes. Do you remember that fantastic, not-so-talented Euro-pop duo called La Bouche? They sang all of those phenomenal tunes that you couldn’t get out of your head like “Sweet Dreams” and “Be My Lover.” Well, they recently came out with a greatest hits album, which probably sold about 6 copies (3 were to me). In any event, I figured that I would pay homage to La Bouche by basing this blog entry on one of their best– “Where Do You Go?”

You’re probably wondering where the heck I’m…