#show brotherteresa

I guess I am not good at multigenerational recruiting. You know, like when CCIE mom or dad decides their child needs to clear out of the house? Find an apartment, settle down, make twin grandmas and grandpas.

?And just like the Dark Knight’s Bat Phone, beacon in the sky, seriously, my cell chimes while the clouds reflect a spotlight! Other times it’s an email or DM.

“Hello Eman,” my unwashed under-employed progeny needs a good paying job.

Well, maybe other words are used, not always, but the baton has been passed.

?Yup, I will talk to kids who engage, hopefully the ghosts among them have found employment, but often the effort seems to wane.

Yup, right when we are gonna do great things that ma and pa will be proud of…….????????????

HELLO? (hello hello)

“IS THERE ANYBODY IN THERE?”

Just smile if you can hear me, is there anyone home?

?(read it again slow, now tell me you can't hear Pink Floyd)

Where’s the callback? Where’s the updates to the resume? Where’s the response to my email? Where’s the, wa’what the heck!? If I was there, pushing your child to tidy their room and stop drinking from the milk carton, I might also get them to keep following the 4 steps and update the resume, and respond to the person offering help. Remember I told them, like shampoo, wash, rinse, repeat until desired results.

Hello, I’m not Brother Teresa. I will man an oar, take part, participate, but I cannot light fires where there’s no kindlin’! Sure, we can all make sparks fly, hell even light up the village, but when the cascade dims, the rutter is still in the hands of the job seeker, regardless of their age or mom or dad’s CCIE track or influence or energy level.

Maybe ma and pa know me, and maybe ma and pa know their kid, but do they know how to turn their journey to thrive into a progeny’s career?

No, but Brother Teresa can?

#show saintbrotherteresa

There are so many folks in this industry that I know and don’t, who will tell you I’ve been around for a spell. The reward comes from helping others, and friendships abound.

I was called once by a network tenderfoot; Suddenly on speaker, I was thrust into joining a prayer circle in Somalia or there about, where folks, I was told, were praying for me. Here I am trying to speak with this young upstart while being biblically restored to better health and assured Papal dispensation for my past indiscretions to boot!

Pretty comical since I thought only my ma was trying to keep me from going to hell!

It was an education too, a reminder that we all start from different plateaus, different points of reference. Without our poverty connection would I have been empathetic? I took it seriously, someone’s hopes, and dignity were at stake.

Meeting so many people, I get the feeling folks know a legend and not a person. How did that happen? That I am spoken of is humbling enough for certain, but being told things about myself, that when inaccurate lean heavily in my favor, is out of body stuff man. Yet when the rubber meets the road, I am a recruiter, and very gratefully, a busy one. When it’s time for heavy lifting in your career, especially when the time is free, your portion of the burden should be the lion’s share. When focusing on getting a new job it’s important to remember the basics and these are all steps taken by the candidate.

Connect, apply, enlist an advocate/name drop, and then call HR, name drop and ask how you’re doing.

Like the shampoo bottle says, wash, rinse, repeat until desired results.

It's a living thank you. There are a lot of you I am talking with, who live in ugly legacy circumstances, the ogre playing fiddle to the indignity of unemployment. And then taking work you are unaccustomed to as a means to an end; you are not sinking, you are surviving.

Bravo!

It’s like exercise for your psyche. Take it easy on yourself 1st and foremost because the energy you need is being wasted if you don’t. It’s under pressure orchestrated by the ogre’s fiddle, swiftly abate any leaks. Call family, friends, unhappily employed connections find a balance and find your rhythm; until desired results!

But no, I’m not a candidate for sainthood by any stretch. It’s a livelihood, a livelihood that embraced me. The folks I’ve met were a real surprise. Seriously the coolest folks and an honor to wander among, while you make my career track bright.

Now tell your kid to do the homework I sent and get me the company names they’ve followed the 4 steps with so you can be proud. Like the shampoo bottle says, wash, rinse, repeat until desired results.

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