Tuesday February 10, 2009
Today I am pretty excited that www.InternetJobs.com has finally launched after many months of hard work. As the Project Manager of the implementation, I can attest to the fact that though putting a website up can be done very quickly, putting a good one up and putting it up well takes lots of planning and focus.

And let me congratulate Derik, the Solutions Architect and Development Lead. He did an amazing job of work with the Sr. Business Analyst (also me) to address the requirements and desired functionality.

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Also, thanks to Kevin for pitching in to help overcome a bothersome issue with our WordPress template. With big things on the horizon, we are keeping Kevin in our sights.

Three noteworthy entries in addition to the usual noise and busy-ness of my typical job hunting week.

ONE: Monday started the week with me in my best suit at an afternoon interview a Dallas-based ecommerce integrator.  At first I was leery about them because of only limited information returned in my searches and virtually nothing provided by the recruiter.  However, my fears were quickly dispelled as the founder and president explained the company and how they were partnered with a very well-known advertising firm, and were using part of their name to enhance their own branding and credibility. As the conversation turned from work and my experience to personal and family things, it turned out we both had a lot in common.  I started to get a very good feeling about the prospect of joining the team. (more…)

Wednesday January 28, 2009

Typically January and February are the hottest hiring months according to what several recruiting professionals have told me personally.  Being a professional job seeker, my own experience is a living indicator of the temperature of the job market.  And, it is cold!

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Monday January 19, 2009

US stock markets are closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  It is a very slow recruiter day – just 1 phone call and 1 email by 2:30pm.

Tomorrow the 44th US President will be sworn into office.  I expect it to be a pretty quiet recruiting day also.

Then on Wednesday it might pick up.  The stock market will react in ways rational or not, and company boards and executives will react to that, and hiring managers and HR recruiters and consulting companies and their recruiters will react as well.  Chain reaction with a crack-the-whip end result, that will have a counter reaction the next day, etc…  Basically, business as usual in the never-ending unpredictable cycle of authorize a project, start a project, support a project, suspend a project, kill a project; then do it again.
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Monday January 12, 2009

Slow as molasses in January.

• Logged into Monster to refresh my resume.  I see that they have recently changed their layout and design, thereby making it even more user-unfriendly.  Now I can’t find how to ‘renew”.
• Logged into Dice to refresh my resume.  I see how my 30 day average of 211 views has dropped to 177 in the past few days.  A year ago it stayed at 300 and way above.  A little sign of the times I’d say.
• Long have I disliked Monster’s usability as a job seeker.  Today my dislike is reinforced ever again.  I was able to refresh the update date on my resume by stumbling into the edit mode, then saving.  But I had to manually refresh the browser page because the “lasted updated” date did not dynamically update.
• Lite day: only 6 incoming recruiter contacts.

Tuesday January 13, 2009

I’ll admit that yesterday found me in a rare state – that being just a little depressed over job hunting, the economy, winter weather, and being a Monday.  But, today I am feeling a little more on top of it all.
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