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At 5:17pm on April 17, 2009, David Rees said…: Anyone know any Sales Manager types in Austin? We are looking for someone to help us build out technical contract staffing division.

Inquire within! (david.rees@htstaffing.com)

At 2:08pm on January 9, 2009, Cayce said…: Hey stranger! How's Austin treating you?

Hope you're well.

Happy New Year - to heath and happiness!

Cayce

At 10:26am on August 14, 2008, David Rees said…: I have so many interests that at times, it can be difficult to focus on just "that one thing".

Taking a systems approach and examining the different areas of your life and how they affect each other can give you clues to help you decide which areas need more focus.

At 9:58am on August 13, 2008, David Rees said…: I am losing my taste for coffee.

But not for caffeine.

Mostly I am enjoying office coffee less and less.

I blame the powdered creamer.

Honestly, I am always surprised when I meet a recruiter that does not drink coffee but we have 2 or 3 of those.

At 9:39am on August 7, 2008, David Rees said…: If you are in Austin, you can meet me at the Door64.com Hi-Tech Career Fair today:

http://door64.com/node/4383

At 11:58am on July 30, 2008, David Rees said…: Follow me on Twitter:

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At 11:34am on July 16, 2008, David Rees said…: Someone just called me from "So and So Professional Services" and said "The reason I am reaching out to you is to ask if I can help you with your candidate pipeline"

"No, you cannot"

[surprised tone and stammering]
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I am really direct with people trying to sell me and I appreciate good salespersonship (hows that for a word?)

It is interesting being on the other side of a solicitation. Whatever she was selling or proposing was not clear and the first thing I thought was that she wanted to do splits or sell me some 3rd party candidates - neither of which I was interested in plus I was really busy so I just shut it down.

Once I realized she was not doing that, I lightened up, but she was already deploying her parachute. Oh well.

Good less in selling - sell the value, not the process. I still don't know what she wanted.

At 11:11am on July 9, 2008, David Rees said…: The holidays always knock me out of the habit of updating my blogs.

At 3:21pm on June 12, 2008, David Rees said…: I posted an ad for a web developer and got a huge number of responses. I am not a big fan of posting jobs, but I do it because its not that much effort to contact people you might not know about.

I was excited coming in to see all the wonderful candidates that replied. As it turns out, almost all of the responses were from Web Consulting companies offering to do my web page for $X per hour.

Sigh.

At 10:30am on June 10, 2008, David Rees said…: Wired announces the death of the SUV.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/rising-gas-pric.html

"The SUV as a lifestyle choice, as a personal statement, is dead," Aaron Bragman, an industry analyst at Global Insight, tells Wired.com. "People are downsizing from their big trucks to smaller cars."