My sister! My daughter! My sister! My daughter!
Well... hold the phone on moving away.
The bank called back today requesting authorization to start a background check. They wouldn't do that if they didn't have some interest.
Also, got a call from AOL, a recruiter with HR regarding TWO positions. I'd submitted my application for them some time ago via my personal AOL recruiter (my brother-in-law). I'd forgotten what I'd specifically applied for... but I still did well on the phone interview. He's sending his recommendation to move forward with the process... so hopefully an interview or two with the hiring manager.
Also, apparently AOL was supposed to have contacted me some time ago... but something broke I guess. Anyway... I've been down this road with AOL before. I'm not going to get myself all jazzed yet.
So the good news... the really good news is that this is happening at the same time. It helps to go into an interview with other interviews scheduled... an old saying in the hiring world that my favorite boss in the world told me once is, "you're only worth to us what another company is willing to pay you". It's a kinda harsh statement... but it's true. That's why people always want salary histories, etc. If someone is paying you $70k, you must be worth it or they wouldn't pay it. Hell, I got caught in the middle of a bidding war once between Northrop Grumman and UUNet for my services. My former boss went to UUNet and wanted to take me along. My new Northrop boss was determined to keep me in place. I didn't start the war either... I got an offer from UUNet, it was good and I accepted. Northrop gave me a verbal counter, and I said no thank you.. I wasn't interested in playing around with bids and counter bids. The UUNet guys asked me if I'd received a counter offer, and I said yeah, and before I said a word, they said we'll match it plus 10%.
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I said ok, to that.
They day before I was to leave Northrop for good. My program manager and the govt director asked me into the conference room and they gave me the world. New position, govt backing/support for projects, visibility, and a massive raise... like 50% and a cash bonus.
I stayed with Northrop.
For the record, the money was great, but the govt/support and visibility within the contract was amazing. My career took off. I had the best team, was peered with senior govt people, given a blank check for software/hardware and given serious support from the govt directors to take on the political staff that were making lives miserable. One political appointee, who loved to antagonize me and my team, had her computer removed from the network and told she couldn't speak to anyone in our department.
When it was time for Northrop to rebid the contract, I was part of the proposal team. I was responsible for the enitre application supprt and dev group. It was huge. I was scuplting a great workplace.
But Northrop lost the fight.
New govt directors had come in and were under a "bend over to the politicos" policy. Northrop was out. Unisys was in.
I lost my visibility, I lost my support, and I lost half my team in the transition.
My claim to fame was that I was the only person in a management role to be hired by Unisys. They fired the rest of the Northrop management team.
The next two years I spent collecting a paycheck until I finally gave up.
That was a strange story. Anyway... it just got me thinking about the salad days at the White House. I had a great team, great boss, and great client. It's been a long time since I've had that. It's been three years since I've had any of that actually.
Carry on.