Kate and I decided that it would be in my best interest to no longer work from home.  My cabin fever as of late has been pretty depressing and with me not leaving the house the only person I can interact with on a daily basis is Kate.  I reached out to my boss who was very much on board with me no longer working from home as she thought me being in ( Read more... )

There are some mornings that you think to yourself, “I just shouldn’t have gotten out of bed at all.”  Unfortunately this morning has certainly been one of those.  The clock has finally flashed past noon and I feel it is possibly safe enough to begin chronicling what has been one of the worst mornings for me in a long, long time.

I woke up, ( Read more... )

My Working in the recruiting industry you become accustomed to the high turnover of co-workers.  This is a love you when you’re hot and leave you when you’re not industry and as such when a financial quarter comes to an end you never know who you’re going to find isn’t there anymore.  Today for the first time in a long time I remembered to sign ( Read more... )

CareerBuilder.com recently conducted a survey exploring how hiring managers are making use of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and the like.  22% of hiring managers responded that they’re using social networking sites to research their prospective employees as compared to 11% in 2006.

According to the survey,

The top areas of concern ( Read more... )

Those of us in the Human Resources and Recruiting games have to make character assesments of our candidates.  But what do we have to go on?  Their resumes are crafted to speak to their professional accomplishments and attributes which tells us they’ve the skills to do the job we’re looking to fill however it tells us nothing about them as a person ( Read more... )

… has been keeping me awake at nights.  Tonight we went to bed by 10:15 and I was out of bed in a cold sweat (after two bathroom trips) by 11:15.  Issues at work and self pity caused by career situations have been weighing heavy on me.  My goal for the moment is to continue conversing online until I am so exhausted I can just pass out.  I’m not ( Read more... )

Usually a good blogger will blog about all exciting, depressing, or even humerous events that occur in their life.  An annoying blogger blogs about every single thing in their lives even when it bores the piss out of everybody.  A bad blogger forgets to blog about major events.  Kate and I are officially bad bloggers.

Kate’s Career
A little bit over ( Read more... )

… Just give a simple answer!  I can not even count the times today I have sent a simple request out to the field and received gibberish, long winded responses with no content and or additional questions without a bit of a response to mine.  Some examples:

Q) Will your candidate be accepting this job offer?

A) Is there a fixed markup?

Q) Can you ( Read more... )

Work has been oh so very busy as of late.  On March 31st we entered a new contract with my client.  This new contract allows us to do business in markets we’ve never worked before and furthermore has reduced the total number of competitors from roughly 150 to 15.

Under the old contract in 2008 (January 1st - March 30th) we saw a total of 194 ( Read more... )

Slow to post, but last week I got my promotion.  It came with a nice pay bump (10.5%).  I now hold the title of Service Operations Manager.

Originally posted at The WaxNation. Please leave any comments there. Posts on The WaxNation are written by either Kate or Dave Waxman; however livejournal can not display the author details thus to determine ( Read more... )