Monday, March 28, 2011
Don't Work...
So here I am on sick leave today, with no access to work email due to some unknown technical reasons.
I get my colleague to check my emails and realise I have one important matter that I need to attend to.
Long story short, a particular candidate of me is bailing my client out on an interview tomorrow. It happens very often to the said candidate who has little skills but an important piece of qualification that stokes the interest in all my clients.
Being a newbie in town and that particular industry having a dearth of such professionals, she thinks she can afford to choose right down to location.
It seems like her young family takes precedence and it made me wonder why the fuck does she even want to get back to work in the first place.
I have "educated" her and kindly suggested that she needed to be more flexible at this stage as she needs to get some real training under her belt. It was even a long shot for me to put her in front of my clients mainly because she had little, if not no experience in the specialised areas that my clients are looking for. Yours truly have been raking her brains at a lightning speed and have resorted to looking overseas and pitching the viability of such a recruitment exercise.
My thoughts are this: I did not approach her. She approached me. Now I play a totally different ballgame from my days as a headhunter to a mere recruiter dealing with people earning ok salaries in the range of $60 to $100k per annum.
So she would bloody make up her darn mind about her life priorities before mucking people around and telling me she needs a break from an interview. What break bitch? You haven't even got your career on track yet so fuck that break or stay home and breastfeed till all the cows come home!
I honestly have no respect for women like this.
This is the reality- sacrifice your career for family or vice versa. She needs to make a choice given the profession she has chosen for herself.
She can be sure she is X-ed out from my books. If I am mean, I could blacklist her further by putting a word out there to prospective employers- after all, the industry is way too small.
Anyways another thing is- who ever put under "Interest" in their CV- "My 1*-month old son, D, of course. Woman, there is no time for cluckiness! I can handle family under interest but please spare us the "of course"! I roll my eyes as I type.
My suggestion to her is-she should take a break from working altogether!
More thoughts on that regarding women with kids and managing a career!
So here I am on sick leave today, with no access to work email due to some unknown technical reasons.
I get my colleague to check my emails and realise I have one important matter that I need to attend to.
Long story short, a particular candidate of me is bailing my client out on an interview tomorrow. It happens very often to the said candidate who has little skills but an important piece of qualification that stokes the interest in all my clients.
Being a newbie in town and that particular industry having a dearth of such professionals, she thinks she can afford to choose right down to location.
It seems like her young family takes precedence and it made me wonder why the fuck does she even want to get back to work in the first place.
I have "educated" her and kindly suggested that she needed to be more flexible at this stage as she needs to get some real training under her belt. It was even a long shot for me to put her in front of my clients mainly because she had little, if not no experience in the specialised areas that my clients are looking for. Yours truly have been raking her brains at a lightning speed and have resorted to looking overseas and pitching the viability of such a recruitment exercise.
My thoughts are this: I did not approach her. She approached me. Now I play a totally different ballgame from my days as a headhunter to a mere recruiter dealing with people earning ok salaries in the range of $60 to $100k per annum.
So she would bloody make up her darn mind about her life priorities before mucking people around and telling me she needs a break from an interview. What break bitch? You haven't even got your career on track yet so fuck that break or stay home and breastfeed till all the cows come home!
I honestly have no respect for women like this.
This is the reality- sacrifice your career for family or vice versa. She needs to make a choice given the profession she has chosen for herself.
She can be sure she is X-ed out from my books. If I am mean, I could blacklist her further by putting a word out there to prospective employers- after all, the industry is way too small.
Anyways another thing is- who ever put under "Interest" in their CV- "My 1*-month old son, D, of course. Woman, there is no time for cluckiness! I can handle family under interest but please spare us the "of course"! I roll my eyes as I type.
My suggestion to her is-she should take a break from working altogether!
More thoughts on that regarding women with kids and managing a career!
