I thought you might be interested to know that although I'm leaving Digitas in a week, I've still been working on all the stuff I had been doing in order to transition into being a recruiter. This means: sourcing for resumes online, screening people who look good, presenting them to hiring managers and if they like them, scheduling them to interview. Then I collect feedback, and if they decide to move ahead and hire them, then they're hired!

Once the hiring managers decide to move ahead with a hire, generally a recruiter has stepped in to extend the offer - except one instance when the recruiter was one who works remotely from Chicago and she asked me if I'd like to extend the offer. So I did! And I remain the only person in Recruiting he's ever actually spoken with in his entire hire process.

Anyway - to date, I have hired 4 fulltime people and 3 freelancers. It's a really nice thing to have under my belt even though my name isn't officially on any of them (politics...) - and also an average number of hires for any of the recruiters on the team.

Just good to know that I do in fact have the ability to do the job. It feels more like a choice that I'm leaving rather than a failure - which has been really hard for me to differentiate lately. My childhood overachieving nature is fighting to overtake my rational mind and I'm struggling to not let it make me feel bad about myself - but all the same I just can't wait to be done with it all and move on to bigger and better things.