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Kimberly B.
𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙚:
@kiimmmmyy
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧'𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 - 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙟𝙤𝙗 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚, 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙, 𝙤𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚:
I changed employers during the pandemic. It wasn't by choice but ended up as a blessing in disguise. [In] my new role, I get to help grow myself and a company and do a lot of new and exciting things while helping other companies do the same. The company I was working for prior was reliant on the cruise industry and with cruises not cruising they had to cut some costs. I loved my job and no hard feelings towards them at all. I completely understand and I wish them the best. I know that with the cruises still not cruising everyday they still have to make tough decisions. That was at the end of April. I actually started looking right away and interviewed a lot. With a ton of companies (some even big named) but the job market was full of great talent looking and not enough jobs to fulfill everyone's needs. Only recently did the market seem to boomingly open back up in my specialty of mobile development. I don't know if it's the shift everyone has to make to being mobile or if it is everything is moving back to more normal again. Either way it's a drastic difference from when I started looking. I get multiple emails daily. During all of that as well, we had both of our young kids at home. We actually moved the older one into Pre-K a year early so that has been an adjustment and she has being doing awesome, despite everything going on. I loathe looking for jobs because of interview process always seeming to be very dry and calculated. I feel like though with everyone working from home and the only real interaction anyone is getting is through the phone and zoom calls that people have really opened up and honed in on their true personalities in the interview process. Really letting you getting to know them as well as letting you convey your true self to them.
𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 2020, 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨, 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚, 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚?
It has affected it how I look at companies when I am joining them a bit more. How they personally have handled COVID, be it from the remote working environment to how they embraced employees who may not be available for 8 hours straight due to having to attend to family matters that may not of been the case sans-COVID. Empathy is a huge asset/perk. I have always thought of work being family away from home but COVID has helped realize what type of family is important to me in that workplace now. I also realized I could work from home forever as long as I could go out every now and then. Pajama pants are my jam. I also set a health goal and look forward to getting to the gym that I joined as a founding member before this all happened. It was supposed to open in April and is opening at the end of September finally and they have been awesome about relaying their social distancing practices.
𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨/𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙚𝙧, 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚! 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙?
I haven't officially started yet so I don't know the official protocol on getting people connected. I personally signed up for the app myself when interviewing and actually got a call the next day from the customer service department asking if I needed any help with anything. So reaching out directly I bet you would get a response pretty quickly. It's a marketing analytics provider called CallRail. When I was just reading up on the company on their website it was fascinating to me the product they are currently providing. I felt like I have never seen anything like it before.