My husband and I drop our 17 month old son off to his own Sunday school so we can attend church. He has a new nursery teacher who reminds me a great deal of the alcoholic organ playing psychic on the movie Poltergeist. All she is missing is the hidden flask and the sound of [...]

Friday I came home from work and promptly started to feel like a possum at midnight, wandering around a busy highway, waiting on a semi to plow into me at about 100 MPH. And, around 10:30PM it happened. Sore throat, itchy eyes, headache, snot… the whole works… the sickness came! Thus, I [...]

We’ve written about relocation issues in the past, yet missteps continue to plague our clients and the candidates with whom we’re working. I can’t stand when a deal falls apart because of relocation details – it’s one of the easiest issues to tackle before the interview process! But, everyone is caught up in [...]

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 [...]

Remember that girl that you met a few weekends ago… the one that kept looking at you out of the corner of her eye? That really hot girl that if you were able to stand next to her for two minutes, people would look at you and ask, “What in the bloody hell is [...]

“We would like to set up a phone interview with Mr. Smith. Please find out his availability.”
“Mr. Smith is available today at 5:00 pm and also Wednesday between 3:00pm – 5:00 pm.”
“That will not work because the VP of Operations is out Wednesday and unavailable for today.”
“We called Mr. Smith again and he said [...]

Dear (insert the name of any HR person in any agency),
I appreciate you getting back with me in regards to my [tag]candidate[/tag]. I know your schedule must be pretty busy as I’ve not been able to get in touch with you via phone, email, fax, smoke signal, messenger pigeon or Wells Fargo Wagon. [...]

Have you ever been so focused on one particular part of life, or one person, that you turn a blind eye to what is meant to be? Sometimes we see this happen in the search world.
Clients often put all of their eggs in one basket, bank on one candidate, or fall in love and realize [...]

Rise and shine.
The cock doth crow
To let you know,
If you be wise,
Tis time to rise.
The rooster may be sitting on the fence, but he is giving loud [tag]feedback[/tag]. There is no more hurry up and wait. You have to make a decision on [tag]Talent[/tag] sooner than later after the in person interview. [...]

Everyone has a nemesis…EVERYONE! When I was younger my nemesis was a guy named Lane. I learned how to sing in the kid’s choir at a southern Baptist church when I was in the 1st grade. I was freakin awesome! No, seriously, no one could sing better than I could…not even [...]