Hi Paula and fellow histonetters! Please allow me to put my 2 cents in on this conversation. The most important thing I want to say to you is please don't shoot the messenger! Secondly, if a recruiter or anyone in a professional setting is asked for help and responds by laughing, me personally I would run screaming. As a matter of fact can you think of any situation where it would be an appropriate response to laugh when someone asks for help of any kind? That being said, This economy has changed the rules for EVERYBODY. If you had contacted me or any histology recruiter anytime prior to the fall of 2008 you probably would have gotten a job since you have kept up your ascp license, certification, registry, whichever you prefer. Now, a lot of employers have the policy that if you have not worked in the last 12 months they don't want to see your resume - from a recruiter. This directive is coming from lab managers and histology managers not HR. When an employer engages a recruiter today they expect that they are paying a fee to the recruiter for someone who can come in and hit the ground running. Usually they are short staffed and don't have the time to retrain or wait for someone to get up to speed. Especially if they are paying a fee for that person. Your best bet is to apply to jobs directly. Unfortunately that won't be easy either since their first priority regardless of whether there is a fee involved is to get someone who has recent experience and in this economy you are competing with experienced techs and new graduates of histology schools. My advice to you Paula is to look on your own and even apply for histology lab assistant positions just to get your foot in the door. Don't give up. Things are finally starting to pick up. Thanks-Pam
Thank You! Pam Barker President/Senior Recruiting Specialist-Histology RELIA Solutions Specialists in Allied Healthcare Recruiting 5703 Red Bug Lake Road #330 Winter Springs, FL 32708-4969 Phone: (407)657-2027 Cell: (407)353-5070 FAX: (407)678-2788 E-mail: rel...@earthlink.net www.facebook.com/PamBarkerRELIA www.linkedin.com/in/reliasolutions www.twitter.com/pamatrelia -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Paula Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:15 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] Looking for a recruiter to work with me! Hello, I am looking for a recruiter to work with me in getting back into the field of histology. I have been out a long time but I know I can re-learn. I have an A.A. in histotechnology and I am HT certified. I need a recruiter that won't laugh at me (it happened in the past) and that will answer my emails. I am in Raleigh, North Carolina. I had one person totally interested but when he realized I was not a new graduate he wanted to get off the phone as fast as possible. I am willing to work at this, take a class or whatever, buy new textbooks and refresh my knowledge. There is no school nearby for me to re-take a clinical, or I would do it. Thanks, Paula _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet