http://www.skillshare.com/Startup-Equity-101-Primer-for-Employees/1214208479/269095051/

Best,
Jamie Lee
@jieunjamie

It is interesting to think of the long periods of human history that were devoted to blind faith and devoid of observation. Starting with The Enlightenment, I believe western culture is in a pendulum swing (especially in formal education) where significant focus is placed learning “that which is” ..science, math, etc), while discounting the creative source of the ideas. Emotion, belief, passion, intuition..whatever is the source of this creativity is important! Kudos to you (and people like Sir Ken Robinson) for acknowledging the other half of the coin.

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Einstein

I have been doing Recruiting for 20 + years and have been both an Agency Recruiter and a Corporate Recruiter. I have help positions from Recruiter to Director of Human Resources. I have a passion for and continue to focus on the one area that I get the most satisfaction in, Recruiting.

Many of the people I Recruit and choose to work with “seek me out” through all the Social Media and Technology avenues available to them. I have built relationships with many , many Engineers, Doctors, Nurses over my Career and have helped them find new positions, spend time with them helping them identify opportunities, resume reviews, review and research Companies, Company Cultures, research their potential ‘new manager or Colleagues and often get and expect no no remuneration for those services. Why do I do that? Relationships..Recruiting is about building relationships. Those relationships often started with a ‘phone call’ because the Internet way back when, was not available. From the beginning of my Career, I learned that building relationships was in every part of my life was key to understanding how I can help others. Not easy to do, but I try.

I am still am In touch with the first Mechanical Engineer I placed 20 + years ago when he Graduated from Worcester Poly Tech and is now a Sr. Executive VP or Engineering with a fortune 50 Company and he call on me as needed both to staff his Engineering Groups and or to simply get my perspective on things. Relationships and paying it forward.

I believe I can recruit in any discipline. Why do I say this? I say this because I spend the time getting to know what is needed to properly identify the talent needed, education, years of experience, personality, cultural fit. I spend time with every hiring Manager, talking with team members and getting an understanding for what this new staff member will do. Further research into the discipline, various other skill sets that compliment and or can be substituted are asked about and usually after a 2-3 hour prep time, I have a decent understanding of the position.

I appreciate the fact that you did not ‘condemn’ every Recruiter in your comments. The reason I did reply is to offer a different perspective on what some Recruiters really do. I get several emails, calls and requests every day from people I do not know, seeking new opportunities and my assistance. I try, sometimes not very successfully, to respond to everyone and always try to help when I can, even if it is referring to someone who is better equipped to help them than myself.

In every field, not just recruiting, there are abusive , unprofessional jerks, so full of themselves who are irritating and condescending that their unhappiness can be felt in their communication. No one wants to deal with people like that.

However, no matter how good you are at your trade it behooves you to network with professions, yes even Recruiters, as you never know when you may hear that your fired, laid off or simply get a new boss you cannot stand and it is time to find a new opportunity. Build a relationship with someone you feel comfortable with, even if you are not actively on the market . Believe me, I hear from people every day who are glad to have such relationships as the world of work is certainly not as secure as it was years ago.By building a relationship with a Recruiter you may find that they can get you introductions to great opportunities that even no matter how good you are in your discipline, you would not be asked to interview even if you applied. The recruiters relationship with that employer may be valued more when it comes to introductions.

Once again, I sincerely feel and her your frustration with recruiters and your points are well taken. I am on LinkedIn and if you ever need some help in a career search, simply need a perspective on a Company or Manager or just want to connect, I can be found at www. linkedin.com/in/bobcorbin.

Be well!

Bob

Cheers
VS Joshi

NPR ran a story about a “cool uncle” gift last holiday season… his niece got a goat, which she never saw but was sent to a poor family on her behalf as part of a $100m effort. I think the key is to make “incremental gifts” tangible and meaningful to kids.

Thanks.

- javascript dependency management with requirejs, or my minloader.js framework (in process of releasing it)
- jasmine for behavior driven development in javascript
- jstestdriver for automated cross browser testing
- jasmine-jstd-adapter to use jasmine on top of jstestdriver
- all of the above plug into maven for great continuous integration
- amazon elastic beanstalk for easy auto scaling and deployment of java servlet apps
- amazon dynamodb for easy auto scaling of huge data traffic without managing a replicated db farm
- amazon cloudsearch for easy, managed, auto scaling search capability for apps
- android
- ios

These are the things I’ve been into lately. I hope these are interesting!