A busy couple of weeks
I've had a very busy couple of weeks with my new job.
The first week resulted in a few days of severe brain drain, as I tried to take everything in. But I'm just loving the job and the company I'm with (Trace Personnel) is great.
I started on 19 June, and we were supposed to be in our new offices by 1 July, but we had the landlord reneg on us and so we're looking for a permanent home. In the meantime, we're down in serviced offices at Waterfront Place, right on the Brisbane River. Nice and swish - though we don't have a river view (far too expensive for us).
The Brisbane office is quite busy - we have about 12 jobs on the go at the moment, and I've been assigned my share of these to fill (even though I'm technicall the recruitment coordinator, not a consultant).
I'm supposed to be doing the same job I did at my last agency - all the admin - but my new boss is confident of my ability and wants me to do some recruitment as well as (when we get the jobs) then I'll also be running the temp desk.
The whole atmosphere is different to where I was - much more dynamic and "can do", and the Sydney office is giving us great support. Our Brisbane team (all 3 of us at the moment) is determined to make our mark - we've reached our June budget and are planning on meeting our July one.
We should have a permanent home by the middle of August - we've several offices that we're looking at. The boys want to get a proper coffee machine for the new office (I jokingly suggested that we try to get sponsorship from one of the local coffee makers - and now the Recruitment Manager is seriously looking at it - as well as trying to line them up as clients as well) and the junior consultant wants a red Mexican Fighting fish as a mascot.
There's a story behind that - Treacy - the big boss - is into Fung Shui, and had the Sydney office done. They had goldfish, but they died because they forgot to put a filter in the tank. I've said that Dale can have all the fish he wants - as long as he realises that he's in charge of keeping them alive! I'm worried enough if they want me to look after the plants (just call me "blackthumb").
I'm so enjoying both the job and the people - I can feel that I'll have a long and successful career with Trace - and am quite content with that.
The first week resulted in a few days of severe brain drain, as I tried to take everything in. But I'm just loving the job and the company I'm with (Trace Personnel) is great.
I started on 19 June, and we were supposed to be in our new offices by 1 July, but we had the landlord reneg on us and so we're looking for a permanent home. In the meantime, we're down in serviced offices at Waterfront Place, right on the Brisbane River. Nice and swish - though we don't have a river view (far too expensive for us).
The Brisbane office is quite busy - we have about 12 jobs on the go at the moment, and I've been assigned my share of these to fill (even though I'm technicall the recruitment coordinator, not a consultant).
I'm supposed to be doing the same job I did at my last agency - all the admin - but my new boss is confident of my ability and wants me to do some recruitment as well as (when we get the jobs) then I'll also be running the temp desk.
The whole atmosphere is different to where I was - much more dynamic and "can do", and the Sydney office is giving us great support. Our Brisbane team (all 3 of us at the moment) is determined to make our mark - we've reached our June budget and are planning on meeting our July one.
We should have a permanent home by the middle of August - we've several offices that we're looking at. The boys want to get a proper coffee machine for the new office (I jokingly suggested that we try to get sponsorship from one of the local coffee makers - and now the Recruitment Manager is seriously looking at it - as well as trying to line them up as clients as well) and the junior consultant wants a red Mexican Fighting fish as a mascot.
There's a story behind that - Treacy - the big boss - is into Fung Shui, and had the Sydney office done. They had goldfish, but they died because they forgot to put a filter in the tank. I've said that Dale can have all the fish he wants - as long as he realises that he's in charge of keeping them alive! I'm worried enough if they want me to look after the plants (just call me "blackthumb").
I'm so enjoying both the job and the people - I can feel that I'll have a long and successful career with Trace - and am quite content with that.