These are verbatim repostings of jobs postings from this week:
The first is compliments of either Ascentiant and/or Blackhawk Consulting Group (it’s impossible to tell exactly who is responsible for this one); pay special attention to the listed compensation, below:
Title: PROJECT MANAGER
Skills: .net, agile and strong PM skills
Date: 7-7-2009
Description:
LOCALS ONLY
PROJECT MANAGER
3+ MONTHS
SEATTLE, WA
RATE AS LOW AS POSSIBLE
Must have .net, agile and strong PM skills. A plus would be any social portal experience.
Must have VERY good communication skills.
Nasreen
and then there’s this one, which a friend received via email this week; and don’t laugh too hard at the last three bullets (or, wardrobe required but not included…. ;) )
I wanted to find out if you are looking for a new opportunity or maybe you might know someone that is looking?
I have a Contract Recruiting position open and the details are below. It most likely will go longer than 3 months, but it is set for 3 months right now.
Please take a look and let me know if you have any interest or might have someone to refer.
The client had openings today to interview, they are anxious to interview, hire, and get someone started right away.
3 Month Contract Recruiter – Downtown Seattle
Need two contract recruiters to augment staff – working in the Full Line Stores & Rack team – would like them to have hospitality or specialty coffee store experience.
Candidates need to be able to take direction; No one with an edge!
There would be full cycle recruiting responsibility, however we are going to have the two contractors engage less with the managers to avoid any disruption to the relationships being built right now in this new model we recently rolled out with the Restaurant and Specialty Coffee divisions.
They would be sourcing, interviewing, screening, and conducting the full life cycle of the recruiting process to hire management positions in this division all across the country. Having a strong recruiting acumen, preferably in a large corporate setting and hospitality/ restaurant industry would be preferred.
Minimum of 6-7 years experience.
They don’t want someone who has been mainly in a sourcing/coordination/administrative role.
They want to meet people who are capable of fitting into and providing mentorship to the current team to teach them about new recruiting processes in a professional, not-stepping-on-feet kind of way.
They are looking for someone who has worked in a non-technical, high-volume, large corporate environment, who is not too ‘agency’
- Specific feedback about appearance/culture fit was that we should be looking for someone we can imagine selling us shoes in the store, very put together and polished
- Shops at the store and wears clothes from the store
- Very polished & professional
Wonder whether either of these stellar opportunities has gotten any takers yet…
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Abraham Lincoln, (attributed) (1809 – 1865)
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