Time to be serious
I am back home and ready to get to work. I have a suit and some fabulous shoes to finish the look off, a professional haircut, make-up from a make-over at Neiman Marcus and of course that MBA. Looking at me you would never know I have been to near 100 Dead shows,* read The Communist Manifesto. and lived in Barrington Hall
I am ready for these interviews.
The recruiter from Ketchum was very nice. Despite the fact that she works out of the NY office, she was still responsive and timely with phone calls and email. I was pretty psyched about this interview. First of all, because I had not applied, they found my resume on monster.com and contacted me.
As I am getting dressed for the interview, I get a call, the hiring manager is not in the office as planned, can we make it a phone interview? Sure why not. It was kind of a waste of blowing drying my hair and actually using some product, but it beats riding BART into the city.
The phone interview starts off well. I feel upbeat and articulate. The guy is really pressing me on my interest in PR. Hmmm. I am interested because your company expressed an interest in me, and I want to find out what you this opportunity could do for me.
I respond with some answer about marketing becoming more viral, blah blah blah. Then we discuss the job description. Amongst the 20 things listed I have solid experience in 19 of them. He then asks me if I have experience writing press releases and pitching reporters-- not things listed in the job description. I am frank. I have managed a PR firm as my vendor, but I have not executed the tactics myself. He returns the frankness "that's what I need."
I do not bother to mention that if that is what he needs, he should put THAT in the job description, but I do mention that Ketchum Recruiting contacted me and he might want to clarify what he does need with them. At this point I think we are both relieved that we did this as a phone interview instead of in person.
As far as Modem Media, I could not get the recruiter to respond back to me after she initiated contact with me.
At this point I feel the need to mention that I was a recruiter for five years. I completely understand why companies do not respond to every resume. The agency I worked for actually did, but it was time consuming and I do not think our responses could be characterized as prompt. But, when a candidate is responding to a recruiter's inquiry, is it not just common decency to reply to that candidate? Evidently not in the twenty-first century. At this point, I wrote it off as an overwhelmed recruiter, too many candidates, too few openings. I soon to learn this is actually a trend if not an accepted practice.
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*Note: I mean the real Grateful Dead with Jerry, not that band of leftovers calling themselves "The Dead" of recent years.
I am ready for these interviews.
The recruiter from Ketchum was very nice. Despite the fact that she works out of the NY office, she was still responsive and timely with phone calls and email. I was pretty psyched about this interview. First of all, because I had not applied, they found my resume on monster.com and contacted me.
As I am getting dressed for the interview, I get a call, the hiring manager is not in the office as planned, can we make it a phone interview? Sure why not. It was kind of a waste of blowing drying my hair and actually using some product, but it beats riding BART into the city.
The phone interview starts off well. I feel upbeat and articulate. The guy is really pressing me on my interest in PR. Hmmm. I am interested because your company expressed an interest in me, and I want to find out what you this opportunity could do for me.
I respond with some answer about marketing becoming more viral, blah blah blah. Then we discuss the job description. Amongst the 20 things listed I have solid experience in 19 of them. He then asks me if I have experience writing press releases and pitching reporters-- not things listed in the job description. I am frank. I have managed a PR firm as my vendor, but I have not executed the tactics myself. He returns the frankness "that's what I need."
I do not bother to mention that if that is what he needs, he should put THAT in the job description, but I do mention that Ketchum Recruiting contacted me and he might want to clarify what he does need with them. At this point I think we are both relieved that we did this as a phone interview instead of in person.
As far as Modem Media, I could not get the recruiter to respond back to me after she initiated contact with me.
At this point I feel the need to mention that I was a recruiter for five years. I completely understand why companies do not respond to every resume. The agency I worked for actually did, but it was time consuming and I do not think our responses could be characterized as prompt. But, when a candidate is responding to a recruiter's inquiry, is it not just common decency to reply to that candidate? Evidently not in the twenty-first century. At this point, I wrote it off as an overwhelmed recruiter, too many candidates, too few openings. I soon to learn this is actually a trend if not an accepted practice.
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*Note: I mean the real Grateful Dead with Jerry, not that band of leftovers calling themselves "The Dead" of recent years.
posted by NoelleMac at
10:04 AM
4 Comments:
so, mentioning barrington and the dead on your public blog will help you get a job?! ;-)
many a great minds were housed in Barrington Hall. nm
your right, besides, what kind of a nut job would ask you what kind of music u like on during an interview?! ;-)
It is sort of funny that barrington and the greatful dead stand out more than an MBA with a Marxist past.
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