Leave My Head Out of This!

Fielding headhunter calls are just part of the job in my industry. Like everyone else I know, I'm constantly seeing recruitment agencies on my caller ID; sometimes I'll just let the call go to voice-mail since I don't want to be bothered, sometimes I'll pick up and let them know that I'm still perfectly happy at my current job so that I don't have to let it go to voice-mail every day for the next two weeks.

I also get emails, I never open the emails... ever. Well, except today for some reason. I think my mind was elsewhere and I just opened the email without really thinking about what I was doing. After opening the email and skimming the first few lines I realized that the company that they were recruiting for... was Celgene! Not only was my company hiring for a position similar to my own (that happens all the time, we're growing fast and we need help) but the recruiters thought I would be a good match! I'll leave it up to you to decide if that was a really really good call on their part, or a really really bad one.

As it is, I quickly deleted the strange email. I didn't want to give my brain too much time to contemplate the inward cyclical progression of being hired for my own job... the earth could implode! The space-time continuum could be irrevocably damaged!! An alternate universe could spontaneously appear wherein man-made global warming actually IS a problem (gasp)!!! The potential disasters are endless.

Fear not, the email is gone, the urge to test my theories has passed, and you are all safe.

For now.

posted by Brett at 4:29 PM