Now Up For Hire: Me

This is an odd post to be writing. Again. Yes, about six months ago, I wrote about how I was available for work. And then a job found me. Now I am looking again. What gives?

For starters, I love working for MeritBuilder. I would love to continue working for MeritBuilder full time. It is a really great fit.

We have spent the last month pushing forward on exciting plans that are making MeritBuilder what I imagined it could be when I first joined in August. What has developed is a fee free but fully featured way of managing your employee incentive and rewards program. We developed it to the point where the platform is completely self-service. You can sign up, load your company e-mail addresses and have a fully featured and hosted employee incentive program in a fraction of the time and cost of most programs.

Exciting right? I am thrilled.

In the process of planning for this though, we knew we had limited financial resources going forward. So what is important to our current and future customers? That the service will continue to be there, that the system will be maintained and issues can continue to be addressed. Since our lead programmer is also our CEO, the system will continue to be maintained as long as we still have customers. As far as servers and bandwidth are concerned, we’ve got that covered as part of this financial plan as well.

Where does that leave me? Basically I’ve become an adviser (unpaid) to MeritBuilder while also retaining a stake in the company. I’ll continue communicating on their behalf (as I can), working with customers (as I can) and basically continuing the service as we need to even at the certainty of a slower pace of customer growth. We’d rather do it right.

Ready or not, here I come

So given that apparently things like bills and other financial obligations do not take a pause for continued customer growth within your bootstrapped company, I am now throwing myself back out in the market. I am an experienced human resources professional with a solid background at large and small companies. I’m a PR/marketing newbie for the HR vendor space with some heavy emphasis on getting stuff done in the social media space (even though I am no Social Media Rockstar or Ninja). I have been writing this blog for almost four years which means, at the least, I can deal well with doing something like this on a consistent basis, measuring results and leveraging that into productive relationships. I also have a record of thoughts that I will have a hard time shirking.

What am I looking for?

• I am based in Portland, OR with a very happily working wife so something local or telecommuting with travel would be ideal. Relocation would have to be very compelling.
• Obviously I am most experienced in the human resources realm. My life continues to revolve around issues related to that too so it would make sense to continue my involvement there.
• I really love working on the HR vendor side of the business and would enjoy the opportunity to continue doing that (can’t be in the incentives or rewards space though).
• I’d love the opportunity to continue to help companies reach out to other HR people using social media. Continued involvement with my blog is essential.
• Of course, with any of these, I’d be open to part-time or full-time employment, contractual, project based or consultative roles.

Does this spark your interest? For more information, you can check out my LinkedIn profile or download a PDF copy of my resume. And if you want to get in touch with me, please do.