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…

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 believe the Linkedin motto is “Your professional relationships are key to your professional success.” Yet, a few of you Linkedin subscribers do not, in fact subscribe to this motto. I’m toiling away here at work – during these tough economic times – trying to reach out and extend my professional network and you little devils are sitting around figuring out how to make my life more difficult. Or so it seems. To come back to the point, of course we don’t know each other…yet. But I’m pretty sure you don’t personally know every single one of your 500K plus…

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…

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…