The Entrepreneur and the Recruiter
In early 2016 I was reached out by a recruiter for a freelance remote position with a small company based in Florida. I thought it couldn’t hurt to have some extra income come in for a couple of little projects. The lady who reached out to me was a talker. She was the type who would get a thought out and then string it together with something she said in her first sentences and kept on talking and talking. I wondered if she ever had time to catch her breath. Most of the conversation was taken up by her with me occasionally getting in an answer now and then. As always I walked her through my experience, and what I am doing currently. I told her was working full time and that if this was a part-time gig, I could do it in the evening. She said that wasn’t a problem, which everyone worked remotely. She liked everything I had to say and wanted to set up a call with the owner of the company. She said she’d get back to me with a date and time. A couple of days went by, and she called me. When I answered the phone she went right into introducing herself again–so I’d remember who she was, and then started talking fast without gasping for air. She had that California “Valley Girl” accent where she used the word “Like” in every sentence. “Like Oh My God.” She told me that she was trying to lock him down for a time. She also said she worked remotely and was hired as a freelance recruiter to help him search for candidates. Because he does a lot as the owner of the company, it was hard to track him down or schedule him for a call, but I was assured it would happen.
