-: I work for a small, to midsize company and so,
the benefit to that is that you can be more general.
You don't have to just specialize and so even though
I was doing a lot of talent acquisition,
I was doing a lot of other general HR things that
maybe I wouldn't do if I were in a larger company,
so you do get to essentially wear many hats,
which is kinda fun, so you're not limited.
But that being said, you're not really specializing
in a small to mid size company a lot of times.
A lot of times you're being more general, at least
in the HR realm.
Well, right now Minnesota has a very diverse...
I guess industry.
So we don't just have one type of industry,
so it's good to be a job seeker,
but it's bad to be a, somebody who's looking for people,
so our pool of candidates really has kinda dwindled
a little bit in the last couple years.
It's easier to find a job, and therefore harder for us
to find the right candidates, so people aren't
necessarily actively looking for jobs the same way
so we have to be more aggressive and not rely on
passive recruitment efforts, and so that can be challenging
because we also come from a generation of people
who are just starting to have like attention spans
of gnats, and so they don't necessarily respond
even when they do apply for a job the way you would
expect them to.