Job applicants for this position are now being interviewed. I was a tad underwhelmed by today's applicant. She wasn't pro-active enough, didn't ask enough questions, and her resume was strong in working with a team. (When you are the entire team, being at your best when working in a group isn't really a big asset.)
Anne's resume recreation process is nearly complete. The R.C. took my lameoid draft and bled red ink all over it last night. I did those rewrites and others today and while I'd like for her to take another pass at it, I think I'll go ahead and apply today for the job DiamondGirl is nudging me towards. She's been waiting almost two weeks for me to send in a resume. They're hiring for two positions but I'd hate to lose my window of opportunity.
Deep breath....
Resume sent! I hope to heck I didn't make any typos in my email. I checked it over but you never know....
Sixty, I sweartogod, sixty seconds later--
Bernie just came dancing in. A giant new project, with a big new client, just said "yes!" I mean, a big project, too. A medium-sized contract came through late last week and a big summer job is about to make a commitment. Looks like things are finally breaking for the company.
He wants me to reconsider leaving. :) There's going to be work for a while to come. (I might even be able to get the $10k I told him I'd have to have in order to consider commuting to Boulder.)
Sigh.
Okay, so maybe I'm missing something in your currect job that is compelling you to stay. Don't you want to move? Doesn't this man drive you nuts? I'm SO confused.
posted by: L-i-K-S on 02.20.07 at 08:53 PM [permalink]I'm so confused that I can't even spell "current." ;-)
posted by: L-i-K-S on 02.20.07 at 08:54 PM [permalink]I think you could treat this job as an "offer" rather than as the "default" ... but it does give you the freedom to look slowly instead of as a crisis.
Who knows: another six months and you might actually have the place running smoothly in spite of them....
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 02.20.07 at 10:56 PM [permalink]Yeah, okay, Bernie's kind of a nut. :) He's not as borderline-psycho as he sounds in my posts, but he wigs out from time to time and he's kind of neurotic and twitchy.
On the other hand, it's very flattering when employers don't want to lose you, you know?
On the negative side--commuting to Boulder 2 or 3 days a week would be horrible. Also? He has not yet mentioned money.
On the positive side--well, he wants me to stay and I'm worried about the job market. :) Say what you will about his lunacy, and I could say plenty*, I'm very accustomed to working for small companies where I have lots of flexibility around hours and tasks and I like that atmosphere.
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* But he's not as big of a lunatic as we was before I started beating him into sanity! :D
posted by: Anne on 02.21.07 at 08:41 AM [permalink]