What's your job? What is your job description?

I’m notorious for multi-tasking my life.  I do five things at once and I THINK I’m good at it. My Boyfriend, the infamous CW, Clayton mentioned to me that I am actually terrible at mulit-tasking. My first response was "I do it for a living!"

It got me to thinking…. Do we multi-task in our careers?

 I can only speak for recruiting, but it seems like every one of my clients is looking for a “hybrid” or a “unicorn” between two or sometimes three roles.  My question is: Can one person do Marketing, PR, and Branding? And be good at all three? Or, good at two and okay at the other?

 What are your thoughts?

 I have another question for my co-recruiters: What exact is our job description for our roles?  Just curious to know your responses.  Leave a post... make it fun.

 

JOB OPPORTUNITIES:

 

Super Stealth Company- TOO HOT FOR WORDS Company.  EMAIL ME ABOUT THIS ONE!

PHP/SQL Developer

 

THQ-ICE- Interactive Gaming Company – Location: Agoura Hills

Game Master

Marketing Strategy Interns- great for grads to get in the workplace

Executive Producer

Associate Producer

QA LEAD

Operations Manager

IT/HelpDesk Support

 

HAUTELOOK.com- Location: Downtown LA

Director of Supply Chain

** one of my favorite sites!

 

Online Game/Lottery Company- Dallas, TX

                  .Net Developers (Contract)

                  Front End Developers- CSS/HTML

Active's July Opportunities

I have a ton of things I'm working on... let me share some of the openings. If you are interested, please email me at Melissa@active-recruit.com or MelissaHooven@gmail.com.  I can send out job descriptions.

Interactive Gaming Company - Location SFV/Agora Hills/Westlake Area

• Game Master
  
• Marketing Strategy Interns- great for grads to get in the workplace
  
• Executive Producer
  
• Associate Producer
  
• QA LEAD
  
• Operations Manager
  
• IT/HelpDesk Support
  

ECommerce/Retail/Internet Start-up- Location: Downtown LA

• Director of Operations
  
• Director of HR
  
• Director of Supply Chain

Super Stealth Company- Can't give any details

• PHP/SQL Developer
  

Online Digital Media/Internet Start up- Location: Bev Hills (these are contract gigs)

• PHP Architects
  
• PHP Developers
  
• Front End Developers

This is a tough economy. We must go above and beyond to help those who are on the market find jobs.  I'm happy to make introductions, review resumes, help write resumes, take introductions from your networks.... for anyone who contacts me.

My thoughts: Along with business, I would love to let people into my life.  At the end of each day, I smile because I truly love what I do.  I learned a good lesson today that "anything is obtainable".  If there is a will there is a way.  Over the weekend, I was flying back from Dallas (from seeing my infamous boyfriend CW- yes, from those who have read my Twitter posts- "I love CW").  I picked up a few things before my flight: coffee, gossip magazine (needed a laugh at 8am), and Fast Company.  Fast Company had an article about Amazon that I want to read and I like to stay current about what's going on in my industry.  I usually read Fast Company from cover to back.  If you don't have a subscription, get one or read it online.  I stumbled upon an article about Julie Roehm, the ex-SVP Marketing of Walmart, who got fired from the company and things went kinda sour.  What you don't know about her is that she is a savvy and smart woman who launched the Ford Focus for Ford (which was a success do to her marketing strategies), headed up Marketing for Chrysler, Graduate from University of Chicago with two MBA Marketing and Business, and has her BS in Civil Engineering from Purdue.  Now she is re-branding herself and currently consults for tons of companies (all which you know). Talk about impressive. 

I read the article and said to myself, "I'm going to email her". Thanks to my super investigative skills (just kidding), I found her email and sent her a message.  I explained that I started my own firm and I'm feeling the growing pains of being a woman entrepreneur.  Guess what? SHE WROTE ME BACK congratulating me on my business and accepted my invitation to open our networks to each other.  Honestly, ask yourself, "how cool is that?"  She is probably super busy and could have taken two weeks to get back to me. It took her 30 minutes.  

The message I'm telling you is .... TRY.  If you see something you like, if you want to advance your career, if you want to make a connection to a savvy business person like I did today... GO FOR IT.  Every thing is within reach.  Keep your goals reasonable, have a good honest head on your shoulders, ask for help from people, and don't give up.

PS. I may take longer than 30 minutes to get back to you, but I am going to try to emulate what Julie did for me today.