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By Kevin Hudson
Kevin Hudson spent almost four years at ServiceMaster as an IT finance director. When the company relocated to Memphis in January 2008, Mr. Hudson, 52, decided not to move. Previously, Mr. Hudson worked as an independent IT consultant and spent 21 years at Ameritech. He lives in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife and has three children.
It has now been a little over a month since I was offered, and accepted, a full-time position at the company where I had been working as an external consultant for the past year. The project has picked up momentum in the past couple of months and I now have the opportunity to see the fruits of our team’s efforts.
Transitioning from working part-time to full-time has gone smoothly. Since I have met quite a few people over the past year, I did not experience that feeling of being the “new guy.” Having been the new hire a few times in the past, it is difficult those first few weeks when you do not know anyone but the manager who hired you, and perhaps a few of the folks from the interview process. I am excellent at remembering faces, but I have always had a hard time remembering names.
A number of people in the organization were surprised to hear that I was now full-time, because they were used to seeing me around and had thought I was already an employee. I could understand their reaction as many times there is not an obvious difference between a full-time employee and a contractor – perhaps just the color of their ID badge.
This opportunity came about through networking, after someone I worked with at ServiceMaster gave me a call a year ago and asked if I could assist his organization on a project. I continued my job search as a consultant because the work was part-time and it was never a given that it would lead to something permanent. As it turns out, it did.
I plan on keeping my eyes and ears open. One of the first tasks I completed was to update my resume. I have chosen to remain on the distribution list for all of my former networking avenues. As I mentioned in an earlier post, jobs are just what you do between periods of transition. In the meantime, I am happy to once again be among the ranks of the employed.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
By Kevin Hudson
Kevin Hudson spent almost four years at ServiceMaster as an IT finance director. When the company relocated to Memphis in January 2008, Mr. Hudson, 52, decided not to move. Previously, Mr. Hudson worked as an independent IT consultant and spent 21 years at Ameritech. He lives in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife and has three children.
It has now been a little over a month since I was offered, and accepted, a full-time position at the company where I had been working as an external consultant for the past year. The project has picked up momentum in the past couple of months and I now have the opportunity to see the fruits of our team’s efforts.
Transitioning from working part-time to full-time has gone smoothly. Since I have met quite a few people over the past year, I did not experience that feeling of being the “new guy.” Having been the new hire a few times in the past, it is difficult those first few weeks when you do not know anyone but the manager who hired you, and perhaps a few of the folks from the interview process. I am excellent at remembering faces, but I have always had a hard time remembering names.
A number of people in the organization were surprised to hear that I was now full-time, because they were used to seeing me around and had thought I was already an employee. I could understand their reaction as many times there is not an obvious difference between a full-time employee and a contractor – perhaps just the color of their ID badge.
This opportunity came about through networking, after someone I worked with at ServiceMaster gave me a call a year ago and asked if I could assist his organization on a project. I continued my job search as a consultant because the work was part-time and it was never a given that it would lead to something permanent. As it turns out, it did.
I plan on keeping my eyes and ears open. One of the first tasks I completed was to update my resume. I have chosen to remain on the distribution list for all of my former networking avenues. As I mentioned in an earlier post, jobs are just what you do between periods of transition. In the meantime, I am happy to once again be among the ranks of the employed.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net