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A Question From New Orleans

Mar 11, 2010 / Community / Trackback

I received this mes­sage from Car­oll , who after read­ing a post of mine on Face­book, thinks a com­mu­nity of recruiters could pos­si­bly help her. Since I belong to such a tal­ented, con­nected and resource­ful com­mu­nity, I know she’s right.

In case you haven’t heard me talk about the recruiter com­mune, it’s a place in my mind at the moment. It’s like a gated com­mu­nity for peo­ple in our pro­fes­sion with a big com­mon area with an eter­nal 24/7 uncon­fer­ence. You may have heard me speak of it. In the true fash­ion of a com­mune I’ll ask my vir­tual pro­fes­sional com­mu­nity and pos­si­ble res­i­dents to help me fur­ther develop the con­cept another day.

For the time being, let’s just crowd­source Car­oll some sug­ges­tions, leads and assistance.

Greet­ings from New Orleans! I just read a com­ment you responded to on face­book. You said “I’m plan­ning a recruiter com­mune so we can pool resourses” Thumbs up to you!

I am a 60 yr old, divorced mom/grandmother who has lost 2 good jobs since Hur­ri­cane Katrina…1 just 3 mos shy of 17 years. I am now unem­ployed except for a very part time job (every other week­end, 3-11pm shift as a recep­tion­ist at a nurs­ing home here in NOLA). I am mak­ing $7.50 BEFORE taxes. I have a col­lege edu­ca­tion, great work expe­ri­ence (worked as a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal rep for 2 com­pa­nies) great ref­er­ences but have been w/o a full time job since June of 2008. My unem­ploy­ment has long been over.

I can­not tell you the net­work­ing I have done, resumes sent out. I am so tired of hear­ing that “we can’t pay you what you are worth, you won’t stay with us”. I WANT TO WORK, I NEED TO WORK. Do you have any advice for me? I con­sider myself a real “peo­ple per­son”, very out­go­ing, a team player but one who can (and has) worked well on her own with great success.

Do you have any New Orleans connections?

Karla, please respond and I will wel­come any sug­ges­tions you have.
Hop­ing to hear from you soon…
All the best.
Carroll


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  • http://karlaporter.com/ Karla Porter

    Shen­nee — Thanks for your kind words. I’m sure Car­oll will appre­ci­ate them too, she’s watch­ing here for ideas!

    Robin S — Thanks for the resource, Wor­kNOLA looks like a hap­pen­ing place.

    Brenda — That’s what I’m hop­ing for.. that there are some some pharma recruiters out there that will take a look at Car­oll as a viable can­di­date. Thanks for call­ing your atten­tion to her sit­u­a­tion — SWAK!

  • Brenda

    Karla,

    My heart goes out to Car­roll, I feel her pain! The phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try is not doing well with the econ­omy, and some pharma com­pa­nies are even out­sourc­ing their sales and mar­ket­ing to spe­cialty agen­cies. I know of two recruiters who are involved in pharma sales reps posi­tions and will reach out to them on Carroll’s behalf, but I can’t promise any­thing will come of it. I’ll do my best. One more thought for her, with her expe­ri­ence in pharma sales, has she tried going into the retail side as a phar­macy tech? The giant retail phar­macy chains might wel­come her expe­ri­ence. (I hope) Brenda

  • Robin S

    A local resource Car­roll may not yet have explored is http://worknola.com.

  • shen­nee

    Karla–
    This story breaks my heart. It is unfor­tu­nately too com­mon today.. Car­roll sounds like a very good, qual­i­fied, can­di­date. I can relate to her story. I will RT the story to all.
    Best of luck to her.


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