Pay The Intern!

November 15, 2010

In my previous life I was a corporate recruiter advocating for the candidates and for the company. I found that if I could strike a balance between what we offered the candidates and what they expected to earn, it was a good deal. Everyone felt good, lives were changed, problems were solved, and I did […]

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1989

November 13, 2010

I don’t know what prompted me to start waxing poetic on the year 1989. Maybe it was some random tune that I heard today on the radio, but it got me thinking about being seventeen. Seventeen was when I went to Europe for the first time. It’s when I fell in love with Paris. Stumbling […]

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Happy Birthday Marines!

November 10, 2010

Today is the 235th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps. I was eight years old when I sent in a recruiting card that I received in a magazine. A few months later I received a typewritten note from the Marine recruiter. While I was too young to join the Marines, he congratulated me on […]

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ERE Fall 2010, Day One Continued: The Vendor Floor, Breakout Sessions & Indeed’s Social

November 4, 2010

So if I was ever pressed to answer the question “What’s your favorite part about the ERE conference?” my answer would be the lunch setup. I know that this is probably not an answer people would be expecting, but hear me out on this one. I’m not a huge fan of being forced to network. […]

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ERE Fall 2010, Day One: Keynotes, Panel & General Sessions.

October 31, 2010

I got this crazy notion that after flying in from the NSHMBA conference, I’d be able to cover the ERE Expo taking place just a few minutes up the road. I had the opportunity to attend the conference two years ago and by attend all I really did was walk the vendor floor, look at […]

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