Lately, I’ve been getting emails from candidates telling me how much they hate their current jobs. Saying that they work at a “glorified design shop” or an agency where they don’t have “a lot of creative freedom”. While I feel their pain of not having their dream job, I don’t think these individuals realize what kind of freedom they are going to have if they start slacking in their current role in a mass effort to find something else. I wonder how choosing from a vast variety of Top Ramen flavors and their pick of either Montel or Springer will…

Yea, you read that correctly, I’m a little peeved off. I love my candidates. I like representing you and making you look even better than you really may be and I enjoy going to bat for you to negotiate a killer salary.

You see, I’ve been in this recruiting game for a long time now. I have a set of rules that I play by and I lay out my expectations from that very first phone call. I expect open communication and I expect honesty. That’s it. I don’t get a fee from my candidates and I don’t ask for…

The market is tough right now. It just is. So let’s just all move out of denial and anger to acceptance already. Yes, people are still hiring BUT no agency is going to pay you 200K for anything especially if you are claiming you make that amount of money freelancing (see earlier blogs on the difference between salary and freelance wages – but to sum it up in four words – butt load of taxes). I’m sure I’ll get the “I know someone who is making that much” speech and you’re right, you probably do, but they were probably hired…

As a Recruiter, most of the relationships I develop are via the phone and through email. There are times when I spend an hour of my day talking to a candidate about everything from prior work experience to lighter topics such as their children’s hobbies or our mutual distain for the freecreditreport.com commercials. However, don’t let the mantras of those late night chat lines and/or anonymous chatrooms fool you. Sometimes when you think you are talking to a charming yet promiscuous twenty-something girl you are really talking to an obese, 60 year old with youthful sounding vocal cords. Well, this…

I’m currently on the hunt for candidates for a prestigious mid-sized shop. This agency’s clients are huge brands and the shop has a golden reputation. Great clients and a solid rep = candidates beating down their door right? Not exactly. Their office is located in a city in the heartland of American (read: wide open spaces with lots of corn). And unfortunately it is challenging to get people excited about relocating to their neck of the woods. (But hey, that’s why they’re working with me.) 

My suggestion to you, the job seeker, is to approach each new opportunity that knocks…

Just a few short years ago, Facebook was a little-known networking site making its debut on the college scene. It gave undergrads the opportunity to post pictures of their favorite beer bonging moments, e-stalk their crushes and join highly important, imaginary groups like “People who love Napoleon Dynamite and have pretty sweet cage fighting skills.” I know this because I was a card-carrying member and officer of one such group.

Well my friends, I hate to admit it, but things have changed. Facebook is no longer just a place for collegians to display pictures of their drunken frat party activities…

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…

So the Democratic National convention kicked off this week in Denver. The first day alone was very eventful when it came to the press surrounding the conference. With the lovely speech that Michelle Obama did and her two little girls joining her on stage to say hello to their father via satellite. Followed by the speech from Vice President Candidate Sen. Joe Biden. Nothing compares to the flooding of the Fox News skybox at the Pepsi Center. I’m telling you this was planned by some rookie out to prove a point. But it didn’t stop there! Outside the DNC there…