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Traveling down memory lane with vomit and transvestites.

Recently we had one of our favorite Clients ask us to send her our best stories of disastrous experiences that happened in an interview so her CEO could give a speech at UNC on “marketing yourself”. (We all have had them being in the business we are in of [tag]recruiting[/tag].) Here are my [...]

Back end Design

If you have an executive level candidate [tag]interviewing[/tag], please put them in a hotel that is more than $55 a night establishment with prostitutes soliciting in the back parking lot. If you have an executive level candidate who is going to run a vital part of your company, please rent them something bigger than [...]

Dig a Little Deeper

Rare diamonds do not sit on the top of the terra firma. If you want more than phenomenal caliber, then one must delve past the surface area. Have you noticed anything valuable requires a larger manifestation of energy? When you do accomplish it, whether it is the ideal weight or the perfect emerald, [...]

Chew on this

We went to a swanky restaurant this weekend to celebrate my birthday. Watching and listening to the patrons can be as filling as the meal. To be able to stare and not get caught can be an art form – of which my better half fails miserably. He turns not just his head, [...]

Left Turn

Traffic in Atlanta sucks. I live 11 miles from work and it takes me an hour to get home every evening. It’s a good thing my 2 pack a day smoking habit ended some five years ago because I’d smoke myself silly in the car with sans left lung. So there are [...]

What’s in a Name?

7th grade just sucks. It really sucks when you are so white you are actually blue and vegetable soup has more meat than the skin on your 70 pound frame. Oh to be popular and wanted - to be adored by all the masses. To have real boobs and not ones made of [...]

You Give Love a Bad Name

So we had a GCD go and interview for an ECD position. All seemed to go fairly well, considering the owner of the agency is as easy to wrangle down for an interview as rabies infested raccoon on a hot summer night. They actually spoke for over two hours – which is amazing [...]

Drinking and Addition

You are going to have to pay for someone to move to work at your agency.
You are going to pay for someone to move who is actually going to run your agency.
You can not pay less money nor give a lower title for your talent to have more responsibility in a city which cost more [...]

2007 Email quotes - why I love this job

Thanks. We’re really happy. –Kevin
Gregg has arrived safe and sound. Great to have him on board.
Hey Kim,
He’s here! So glad it all worked out. Thank you so much for your help. I look forward to working with you again in the future.
It will take some time for me to sell my house. Assuming that I [...]

The Night Before the Offer

‘Twas the night before an offer, when all through the office place
Every creature was stirring, to win this final race;
The benefits were hung on the wall with care,
In hopes that a new employee soon would be there;
The creatives were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of six-figured salaries danced in their heads;
And EVP in [...]