CareerBuilder has a fun list of (apparently) real reasons people have given for coming in late to work - my favorite is #9 (”hey, gimme that Glock back - I’ve got a board meeting this morning, and I’m gonna need it!”)
Jennifer Tortorella’s one of the best agency recruiters I know (seriously - if you don’t believe me, just ask her :) She’s good, and a great partner/ vendor to ZoomInfo. Her latest post drew my attention to CareerBuilder’s annual interview mistakes survey - sad, but true stuff. I’d add in the guy who, when I walked out to greet him, was on his laptop. Not a big deal, but when I said “Hi [name removed to avoid lawyers], I’m Martin Burns, nice to meet you,” he glanced up, raised his finger to let me know he needed a minute, then went back to typing… When he was done playing Scrabulous (or whatever), I sat him in a conference room and went to grab the first interviewer - within those 2 minutes, he had plugged his network into a data line in the office, and gone on-line to do some surfing….
One more - that same day (honest), we had another candidate in for a QA role. When the QA Manager asked her where she saw herself in a few years (standard softball question with a hidden edge), she answered “As a software engineer - I’m too cerebral for QA.”
Needless to say, not exactly people we chased after….
So, been a leetell busy lately, and - sadly - have been letting weeds and such grow in good to know.  Not here to do much pullin’ and sprayin’ today, but wanted to post this video - Willy’s the cousin of our own Abby Borden (graphic designer/ hand-coder extraordinaire, and a key part of our UX Team). She’s justfiably proud of Willy - I think he’s 21 by now, but maybe not even there yet. Good stuff.
I’m sorry, but I absolutely have to post this. One of the search terms somebody used to find my blog today was:
 ”fuck you job hunt”
Yay - I love people, I really, really do…
Ain’t nothing like a jazz Santa -happy holidays, everyone!
