You know those moments when you’re in the zone? You can knock out tons of work and it seems like your mind is on fire. You can achieve anything! I don’t know about you, but my perfect zone is right after I wake up on a day when I don’t have anything pressing to do.…
I’ve decided that interviewing people is actually the most stressful part of hiring. Turns out, some people are incredible writers, who make a great impression with their cover letter and resume, but then are total duds at interviewing. Others, who were almost a stretch to make it into the interview pile, have actually wowed me.…
Continuing on with the How to Get Hired or Now to Not Get Hired series, I want to focus on references. How to Get Hired Pick a reference who is happy to cough up several examples of your great work. Tell this person you’ve applied for a job, so they can expect a phone call.…
This week was the first time I ever had to run a job search from beginning to end with a large number of candidates. Since starting my new job, I’ve had to hire several props and wardrobe people, but all came as recommendations from trusted colleagues and friends. This week I posted a job on…
Every job has its tools and one of the biggest money suckers for a stage manager is their kit. What’s a stage manager kit? Well, it harkens back to the idea that a stage manager is the person who is “absolutely responsible for absolutely everything” for a production… which is an over or under simplification…
After all that jetsetting through my twenties, I recently transitioned to a pretty normal job. Now I work as a Production Manager for an Off-Broadway theater. It’s sort of a step away from Stage Management, but uses a lot of the same skills. If, for some crazy reason, this was a path you were thinking…
So, like I haven’t rambled about my weird adventures enough in the last two weeks… if you wanted to know more about what it was like to live on a cruise ship, check out my guest post over at Budgets Are Sexy. Some people do crazy things like recycle their toilet paper to save a…