TGIF!

Our audit here at the staffing company went surprisingly well! We passed everything with flying colors and my boss is very happy right now (and when the boss is happy, I'm happy!) I also had the opportunity to learn some more about our corporation's expectations concerning some of the reporting and training functions of the office so I can be more effective.

On a personal note, my husband and I are finally getting the house put together. Now the entire house interior has been painted and we are moving into our master bedroom area FINALLY! It looks wonderful and I am so glad we have the opportunity to decorate the way we want to for a change.

If you are reading this on Friday- then have a wonderful weekend!

Audits...Oh My!

So yesterday, my manager and I recieved a notice that our office would be subject to a quarterly audit to make sure we are handling all our customers and employees in compliance with corporate policy and proceedures. Well, that sent my branch manager into a "tizzy" with her scrambling all over trying to make sure she had all her ducks in a row this time becuase apparently before I arrived she had failed an audit and was pretty upset about it. Little things like someone writing something in on a customer contract or a billing rate being off as little as 5 cents will cause points to be assessed against a branch of this company. So of course, being as ADD as ever, my branch manager starting yanking customer files all over the place and questioning me on every little detail! I was like, "hello this is stuff you should have been doing all this time and lots of this is from before I got here!" Anyhow, today I am pulling some reports and going carefully through all the employee files, whicih I know are correct, to make sure all documentation is in there, just in case.

Welcome to the "Wonderful World of HR Audits" I guess!

Recruiting 101

OK so I am doing fairly well with working as a Staffing Consultant in Charleston. I am finally getting over the learning curve and am working to improve the functions and proceedures of the office I work in. Overall, this is an interesting career and I do enjoy the daily interaction with people. However, I am having second thoughts about the kind of recruiting I am required to do. Albiet, I handle a multitude of tasks and am getting a well-rounded aspect of job placement- I am trying to decide if I want to eventually specialize in one particular type of recruiting such as medical staffing since I have many years of experience working in that field? Also, I still want to gain the experience so I can eventually do this strictly from my home office or develop a company of my own permanently.

Well those are my thoughts of the day! Hope you are having a great week so far....

I'm off to an online seminar in Talent Management!

The house

Ok so you may be wondering where I've been lately? No.. I was not kidnapped by aliens! In between working ALOT of extra hours at my Recruiting job and doing phone surveys and paid forums, my family just bought our first house! That's right folks...I'm finally living the 4 bedroom, two bath brick ranch American dream. So we are painting and remodeling and just trying to figure out how we managed to accumulate so much stuff and asking myself where are going to put it now? The great thing is that we have a brand new home office much larger than in our old house so I can stretch out and get more serious about my work from home quest. I am serious when I say that I want to be doing something primarily from home by this time next year. Recruiting seems to be my "thing" and so with staffing, particularly medical and professional, in high demand it's only natural for me to go this route. I am learning so much from my mentor and have even had three job offers from staffing companies in Charleston recently - very surprising since I'm not actively looking for another job presently. (Where were these folks a few months ago when I was almost getting desperate looking for a job in Human Resources? LOL) So wish me luck as my family settles in to our very own home and gets back to some kind of normal routine.