April 25, 2008

HEADHUNTER

For a few years, I worked a recruiter or a headhunter.  Basically, I found jobs for people or found people for jobs.  I worked for a temp staffing agency and then moved into a creative staffing position.  It wasn’t the easiest job.  I had to deal with people all the time in person and on the time and neither of those are ever really pleasant experiences.  Then I had to try and sell these job candidates to different companies.  A lot of the time I would have to cold call companies and ask them if they had any openings.  If they did, I’d have to convince them that going through a staffing firm was better than just hiring someone themselves.  Networking was a big deal and I had to force a smile on my face and act like everyone I met was the most impressive and important person in the world.  But I made good money doing it, but, in the end, I had to change up jobs.  I was going insane from all the pressure and the extra hours and everything.  I even got a couple of ulcers from working too much.  I wasn’t sleeping well and too many times I had to skip lunch to finish an assignment or make more headway with it. 

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