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		<title>Strange But True Job Postings, Part II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are verbatim repostings of jobs postings from this week: The first is compliments of either Ascentiant and/or Blackhawk Consulting Group (it&#8217;s impossible to tell exactly who is responsible for this one); pay special attention to the listed compensation, below: Title: Skills: Date: PROJECT MANAGER .net, agile and strong PM skills 7-7-2009 Title: PROJECT MANAGER Skills: .net, agile [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are verbatim repostings of jobs postings from this week:</p>
<p>The first is compliments of either Ascentiant and/or Blackhawk Consulting Group (it&#8217;s impossible to tell exactly who is responsible for this one); pay special attention to the listed compensation, below:</p>
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<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/project" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with project">PROJECT</a> MANAGER</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">.net, agile and strong PM skills</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">7-7-2009</div>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Title: <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/project" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with project">PROJECT</a> MANAGER</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Skills: .net, agile and strong PM skills</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Date: 7-7-2009</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Description:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">LOCALS ONLY</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/project" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with project">PROJECT</a> MANAGER</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">3+ MONTHS</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/seattle" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seattle">SEATTLE</a>, WA</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">RATE AS LOW AS POSSIBLE</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Must have .net, agile and strong PM skills. A plus would be any social portal experience.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Must have VERY good communication skills.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Nasreen</p>
<p>and then there&#8217;s this one, which a friend received via email this week; and don&#8217;t laugh too hard at the last three bullets (or, wardrobe required but not included&#8230;. ;) )</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I wanted to find out if you are looking for a new opportunity or maybe you might know someone that is looking?</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Please take a look and let me know if you have any interest or might have someone to refer.</p>
<p>The client had openings today to interview, they are anxious to interview, hire, and get someone started right away.</p>
<p>3 Month Contract Recruiter – Downtown <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/seattle" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with seattle">Seattle</a></p>
<p>Need two contract recruiters to augment staff &#8211; working in the Full Line Stores &#038;<a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/amp" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with amp">amp</a>; Rack team &#8211; would like them to have hospitality or specialty coffee store experience.</p>
<p>Candidates need to be able to take direction; No one with an edge!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Minimum of 6-7 years experience.</p>
<p>They don’t want someone who has been mainly in a sourcing/coordination/administrative role.<br />
They want to meet <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with people">people</a> 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.<br />
They are looking for someone who has worked in a non-technical, high-volume, large corporate environment, who is not too ‘agency’</p>
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<li>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</li>
<li>Shops at the store and wears clothes from the store</li>
<li>Very polished &#038;<a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/amp" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with amp">amp</a>; professional</li>
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<p>Wonder whether either of these stellar opportunities has gotten any takers yet&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;</strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #454545; font-size: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><strong>You can fool some of the <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with people">people</a> all of the time, and all of the <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with people">people</a> some of the time, but you can not fool all of the <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with people">people</a> all of the time.&#8221;</strong> - <span style="font-size: 15px;">Abraham Lincoln, <em>(attributed) (1809 &#8211; 1865)</em></span></span></p>
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<p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; font-size: 11px; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 6px; border: 0px initial initial;">Most <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/job" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with job">job</a> postings are dry.  Really dry.  And &#8211; they usually include &#8220;must haves&#8221; which require skills and/or experience with everything but being able to both plumb AND re-enamel a kitchen sink.  As one <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/hiring-manager" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with hiring manager">hiring manager</a>/Art Director I spoke with last week said &#8211; if any candidate ever met his team&#8217;s expectations, there &#8230;</p>
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<p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 15px; font-size: 11px; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 6px; border: 0px initial initial;">Sometimes when <a href="http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/tag/people" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag nofollow" title="Posts tagged with people">people</a> ask me what kind of work I do, I just kind of laugh and say &#8220;Well, in my next life I&#8217;m going to sell swampland in the Gobi,&#8221; and leave it at that (or try to). If pushed, I say I enjoy technology, like to solve problems, build things, and&#8230;</p>
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