So check out my post on “What’s Hot in IT Jobs” and let me know what you think!

Although my blogging here has pretty much died down, I still Twitter occassionally and update the family blog when I get a chance. Hopefully I can put out more tech/business related posts and articles as I get time.

Read a pretty cool article on Dave Mendoza’s Blog about Pat Cronin, one of the Senior VP’s with Volt. Talks about his background as a recruiter and the industry, etc. Good read for the most part. Make sure you read both part 1 and part 2. It’s encouraging to me as a new person to this industry that I can succeed and do well in this business. Just think, back when he started there was no ‘net and online sourcing sources like LinkedIn. Must have been really rough back then!

I’ve had a pretty decent week. Made a few client visits and am really trying to grow that part of my work week. I’m struggling to get potential clients to confirm a meeting. Really people, I’m nice! I won’t bite your head off! I just want to say hello…in person. Been trying to get better on calls as well and followups.

Had a few candidates do some telephone and personal interviews. Some were good and things are moving forward. Slow process at times though cause you are working around the candidates schedule, the clients schedules, etc. It’s a balancing act.

Got some new searches going as well! That’s always exciting cause that’s the bread and butter of our business! No searches = no work = no job! So if any of you are talented Hyperion, Java, C#/ASP.Net, or Web Design gurus let me know! I have work for you!

Enjoy the Olympics over the next couple of weeks. Even though it’s 08/08/08 for us it’s already 8/09 in China. So why are the Olympics on our time schedule? Not like the US started it…

I’m now doing Sales for our team. Woohoo! We are at the point in our growth where we needed an additional person to help Rob (our Sr. Sales Consultant) with the Upstate market. I was approached and gladly accepted the offer to help out in this position. It’s a change from the recruiting side in a few ways – compensation plan is very different, but still very good and exciting; I’m doing more marketing and client visits; I’m no longer actively recruiting candidates (although I’m still working on the few open positions that I have); and I get to focus more on the Upstate market (Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson/Greenwood, etc.)

Overall I’m excited about the opportunities with this position. Was I a failure at Recruiting? I don’t think so, even though I haven’t had a solid placement yet I’ve been able to source a number of very talented individuals and go through some phone interviews/screens, and do writeups, reference checks, etc. I still have a potential of placing a few candidates but we’ll see what happens.

(oops, forgot to post this! hehe)

So that’s what’s going on in my world as an IT Recruiter now Sales Consultant. More to come!