Appreciation Post!

Appreciation post! I was thinking on my run this morning how lucky and awesome it is that I get to partner with a group of women the way I do. Some of you know this and some of you don't but we call ourselves The Hive.

I partner with a group of extraordinary women every day; all independent business owners, all Moms, all courageous human beings that made the leap into running their own companies. When one of us brings in a new search, ALL of our eyeballs will be on it, and when we work with a candidate, collectively as a team we could have a bunch of potential job options for them. It's a win-win for everyone!

I've never formally shared about this group of women, The Hive. I am SO proud to be apart of this group: Darci Lee Meagan Sylvester Jenny Chynoweth Naarah Hastings Christine Adkins.

Please feel free to reach out to any of us if you need help hiring OR if you are looking for a new role. We specialize in full time, direct hire placement and each of us has a specific focus (tech as well as non-tech).

#womensupportingwomen #appreciationpost #hustle

Impact of raising base cap at Amazon

I can't stop thinking about Amazon raising their base cap to $350K per year. And for so many reasons. The market is FIERCE. Hiring talent is HARD. I get it. They can do it. So they did it. The ripple effect....how this impacts other people, other companies, startups, the housing market, etc.

My friend and competitor (;-)) Albert Squiers said it best on Geekwire yesterday, “Startups in Seattle were already having a difficult time poaching Amazon engineers; this will make it even more difficult.”

As far as what smaller companies & startups can do to "differentiate themselves", what I hear and see as the #1 ask is "work life balance". I think that the past couple of years people have really, really evaluated what matters the most to them and that is, time. All we have as people is time. In most of my conversations, I hear "work life balance" as being the MOST important thing, of course pay is in the top five but at what extent do you hand your life and time over for golden handcuffs? Does increasing pay come with a greater ask of time as well? So many questions and I realize everyone might not agree with this train of thought but I can't help but wonder......

Curious to hear others thoughts on this as well and how startups can compete and how smaller companies can hire people if they can't offer cash like this.

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#musings #worklifebalance