I'm an IT engineer. In terms of my interests, I studied IT at a university, I was also helping before university. I come from a line of engineers, it was a fascinating thing for me. I thought I could go to study electronics and being to computer systems engineering, that’s what I did. I got an internship with Ford Motor Company in the IT department as the consequence of the professors in my department. Again, through the college, through therelationships and also the end of my first year on through a relative who worked for an IT company, I approached that person as proactive in getting a mentorship more than I realize, more than most people do. So I started mycareer because as a result of my internships, I got a full-time position with Ford Motor Company in the head office Ford of Europe, developing IT software and systems but I didn't enjoy the corporate world so I realized I enjoyed the work but not the rest of it and also I was very introverted as an engineer and I didn’t fit in with the corporate politics. So I wanted to teach myself how to go out there and go into my noncomfort so I'm selling. I gave it all up, went in sales, as a result of building cold calling and selling. I then realized I could be an IT recruiter because I knew IT and I wanted to connect people. I want to be the person who could help to introduce find each other, without me it wouldn't happen. That was my sort of very goal. I went through this thought process called, what should I do with my career and I had an idea. I want to be an IT recruiter. I walked into a recruitment company and with my resume and they persuaded me to join them and I was there for seven years and the rest is history. I only left that company to come to America because my wife is American so I was very lucky but I think to get in there, you have to follow your dreams in terms of what you know is realistic, balancing it on what is viable as a profession. You dream is to play video games all day, is it viable as a career, does it interest you enough that it fascinates you. If you find that you enjoy certain parts of it then just talk to other people, listen to what they enjoy. One more thing I'll say is because I realized what I was enjoying, I found myself talking to people who did things that had parts of what I thought I would enjoy and that kind of steered me towards finding that IT recruiting.

After 14 years of being a recruiter, I set up my own recruiting company. It's a small company, it’s a tiny company so I run the business but I'm involved with everything. I have my own client companies that I search forand I find candidates as do my colleagues, so I'm hands-on with everything but it's also, I run the business but it's looking for new business development, about talking to new companies and finding people that I think are coming is going to want and then check in those tomorrow to find new companies. A lot of it is really bringing people to people I think they're going to appreciate them. Typically it’s in office-based because I'm on the phone talking to people most the time and with a connection like this, I don't feel like it's not this job at all. I travel because what we do is national, between D. C. And Baltimore, even Maryland, our clients there in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and San Francisco. My travel is very limited by just nature of we could do it so remotely with video and telephone and I could meet candidates, I could recognize how good they are on the phone but also with video.

I could spend all day researching mutuals. We have a serum system is that they have a system for candidates, clearly, every business should have serum systems in time, we populate that with obvious information we pick up from talking to people through LinkedIn. I have 26000 first-line linked in connections, I’ve been on linked in since 2005 and I connect with hundreds of people weekly so clearly that's the mechanism for now. I'm not a big social media person typically, I don't post content but I believe in engaging people in that way so excel spreadsheets for everything. I love excel programming but typically that's about it. We have a software database, we have everything hosted in the cloud as well. We have our email, contacts in the cloud calendar. All that's changing and I like to keep up but I'm not using the best of what's out there to say about it.