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After perusing this site for an extended period of time, I decide to make the plunge and actually join.

My name is Seth and I've been in the recruiting field for about 6 years. Started out on the agency-side, now currently overseeing the recruitment operations for a large healthcare system in Southwest Alaska (better known as the Bush).

I have seen a lot of good information on this site and figured I should join in every now and then.

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Permalink Reply by Amber on January 7, 2013 at 5:04pm

Hi, Seth! I haven't been to Alaska yet, but my husband lived there for about 15 years. His daughter still lives there, so sometime I guess we might make a visit there. In the summer, of course!

How long have you been an internal recruiter now?

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Permalink Reply by Seth Lidren on January 7, 2013 at 5:14pm

1 year, 4 months. I actually live most of my "recruiter" moments vicariously through my staff these days as I am spending most of my time on strategy (rebuilding our program, rewriting policies and processes, compliance and developing my staff)--which I absolutely love. I still find some time to roll my sleeves up and get into the dirty work most of my days, but no where near the 60-70+/week that I used to do. It's a nice change, and I think my hair loss has slowed.

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Permalink Reply by Noel Cocca on January 7, 2013 at 9:50pm

Welcome Seth....good to have you on board! Tell us more about that transition...sound interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Spagnola on January 8, 2013 at 8:46am

Welcome to the RBC Seth and best of luck building your desk.

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Permalink Reply by Seth Lidren on January 11, 2013 at 11:54am

Transition was, how shall I say, different. Going from a sales-based position focusing on a few different healthcare specialties to overseeing an operation with, at my last count, 600+ unique positions (granted, should they all be unique? Probably not) and about 600-700 hires, 200+ position transfers, less than 100 promotions per year was straining to say the least. All that while having to "clean up" broken processes and relationships that were left in a tumult of high turnover (when I started, I was the 5th or 6th incumbent in my role in 7 years).

Transitioning out of the client-centric mentality (they say jump, I say how high) to a organizational-centric mentality (if I take this action, what would the ripple effect across the organization be) was interesting.

Things have calmed down though and we're making a lot of headway. I can truly say that I love my job.