Career Talk JDR

Posts Tagged ‘recruiting’

Most employers and hiring officials spend a good portion of their time and resources in the hiring process.  The time invested and costs of sourcing top candidates for key positions are significant.  Companies and managers go to great lengths to try to entice the best professionals to come on board their organization, instead of the competition.  Oftentimes, candidates are flown in, wined and dined and offered a multitude of other perks, just to draw them in.

Back in 1989, I was a Staff Accountant with a financial institution and found myself in a bit of a rut.  This was my first job out of college and I had interned there during college.  Every month…month end, accruals, account analysis and reconciliations.  At the time, the bank was in a slump (seems like a tiny, tiny slump compared to the slump we’re in today) and I couldn’t transfer to another department.