RPOlosophy

Next week will be my 1 year RPOlosophy blogging anniversary.  I truly enjoy the opportunity to share my unsolicited thoughts with you and I really appreciate your opinions, comments, and feedback.

Sometimes when work is overwhelming (like this week) blogging is truly difficult. However, it also seems to come together by some sort of divine intervention.

Here is a case in point. Yesterday, I heard a great piece on NPR by Barbara Bradley Hagerty entitled Blog Tips For Pope: Give Us This Day Thy Daily Post .

Clearly this story has nothing to do with Recruitment Process Outsourcing.  It’s all about communication and sharing your message. But wait….isn’t promoting the Pinstripe brand and extending the RPO dialogue my goal? Maybe this article has everthing to do with RPO.

Most importantly, after listening to this story, I now recognize that each of Ten Commandments would be perfect for Twitter’s 140 character limit.  Someone was really thinking ahead!

My daily commute to Pinstripe is about 18 miles each way.  Last week while driving into work, I got stuck in a major traffic jam. It wasn’t due to severe weather or an unfortunate accident. It was just because there were lots of cars commuting to work. The highway was simply congested with vehicles.

I was sitting on Interstate 94 West (by the Petit National Ice Center) with nothing but my lukewarm coffee in my cup holder and NPR on the radio. I had lots of work waiting for me at the office and if things didn’t get moving soon I was going to be late or miss my 1st meeting of the day.

As nothing was happening, I began to get more and more aggravated.  I was wasting so much valuable time. Time that could be spent selling Recruitment Process Outsourcing  to people truly in need of our services.  My daily mission and routine was being interrupted. It seemed all I could do was look at the unwashed Quadruple A Plumbing van directly in front of me and wait impatiently for something to happen. Read the rest of this entry »

I was listening to a story on NPR recently about the Mandle. For those of you behind the times, the Mandle is a man candle; a scented candle specifically designed for men. How many times have you heard somebody say they love the smell of an auto shop, gasoline, leather, or even fresh dirt?  Well, the Mandle is here to provide you with a means to enjoy many of these smells any time you wish.

As the report listed some of the some of the available scents (chew, stogie, wood chip, and beer), I thought about the ridiculousness of the Mandle. Candles aren’t meant to smell like bacon or spittoon.

In addition, the story tried to compare the Mandle to some true gift icons like the Chia Pet and the Clap On, Clap Off Light. If Ron Popeil was listening, he would probably commit suicide with his Ronco Dial-O-Matic Food Slicer.

Before my outrage could boil over, Read the rest of this entry »

I was reading through NPR.org the other day and my attention was drawn to an article titled “Recession Makes Us Faster”. 

My obvious bent was that this article was business related, especially since it was based on research by The Wall Street Journal. I assumed that because of the current economic climate, companies are moving faster. I was hoping to read that organizations are making decisions faster (especially about outsourcing) and, in general, just being more agile. Read the rest of this entry »