Recruitment

At what point are you over-recruiting? I've been involved with recruitment a couple times before but now I'm just wondering if recruiting for club is different from college.

In college, it was just really being persistent, selling it easy, and trying to get them hooked. And I think for the most part, it was fairly effective. My second year of recruiting (3rd year returner), we had enough girls for 2 teams. And when I talk about recruitment, it's not just getting the girls to come out but also getting them to stay. Some as much as you want them to leave, they won't. Others you beg and plead, but they just won't commit. But is that the right approach? There have been a couple of girls that I've spent considerable amount of time on trying to get them to stay with the team. Either meeting with them privately, listening to their concerns, telling them what I see, etc., etc. And at one point, I just felt like I was just stroking their ego, like nothing I say would make a difference but they liked hearing about how they are really good and that the team needs them. Now I'm not sure if that's what was really going on, but I feel like if I keep making all this effort and response is always very wishy-washy, not committing, but not saying that you aren't; it just seems like you like the attention and what you're hearing. I don't know if that's just me. I've wanted to quit the team before, and I didn't really talk to anyone about it because it's my choice to make and I didn't want to make a big deal or seem like I want the attention.

So now I wouldn't say I'm actively recruiting for club but I do know people that are trying out for other teams. I always share my experience but I largely leave the decision up to the individual and just to do "what is right". And I'm not sure my different approach is because I'm not captaining anymore or that I've learned it's not always best to be over-assertive. But I guess with club it's also different, you know that they do want to play it's just where they think they can achieve whatever goals they aim for. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, but I just noticed that I'm a lot less assertive and I really do think it's because of previous experiences and I think recruitment on these two levels are fairly different. But then again, you do need to cater to each individual at the same time. It's interesting and I'm bored.

Quick Update!

I got a job! I'm still in SD! And I'm ready to take on the world!

More to come...

Interwebs Technology That I Like: Part 2

Simply Hired.

And not just because they are giving me an interview! But because they had made job-searching a lot easier. I have been using this site for months. I liked it because it's clean and easily customizable. I'm able to browse jobs all over the state on one site. There's no spam (unlike Monster.com) that I've found, and I just prefer it to other job search sites. The usual ones I use are Simply Hired and Craig's List (also an interweb technology that I like but mainly because of used goods). One is more broad in location, opening up my search. And Craig's List is just to see my options around me.

Like I said, I have an interview with Simply Hired! Last week I had a (short) phone interview with them, and they invited me out for more formal interviews. 3 hours, 4 people! Think I might drive up there, won't have much time to see people in the bay, but if I get the job, I'll have plenty of time to hang out with them!

Stay tuned to more interweb technology. Next up: Twitter. Tweet, tweet.

Interwebs Technology That I Like: Part 1

YELP.

iloveyelp. One, because I love food. While Yelp is not just a food/restaurant review site, but the bulk of it is. I now extensively Yelp restaurants before I go. Part of the research. Usually it works out, I see pictures and see what looks good, but there has been times where the food didn't live up to the hype. But either way, I do my research before heading out. And at the very least (because of my new spiffy smart-phone), I look at pictures while at the restaurant to get a better idea of what to order.

I also enjoy writing reviews of places I've been to. I don't write reviews for every restaurant, only the ones I think are worth mentioning (either positive or negative). If I don't think I have much input, I'll skip the review. And what's cool is that the business usually has an account too, and might correspond with you! I wrote a nice review for a restaurant once, and the manager messaged me and thanked me!

Recently, I have been going Yelp-crazy. I look at the same food pictures over and over again. I check in a every restaurant I go to (when I remember..). I'm a "regular" at 24 Hour Fitness and Half &Half. My goal is to become Yelp Elite. And get invited to uber cool private parties!! Before I achieve such status, I suppose I could just continue to look at yummy pictures. Despite my goal of eliteness, I hope not to become a Yelp whore. But maybe it's already too late.. :)

Find me on Yelp! http://tfeng.yelp.com

Hermione is a Whore!

Death Eaters 2011

Lei Out was awesome. First Lei out ever. Almost won the C bracket. Lost 12-13 on DGP. 

"I think I end up on top.."

"Oh, an elephant sillyband.. That's really political of you."

"No means no."

"That sounds really familiar.. Where is that from?"

"I hate Harry, bitches!" or "I hate hairy bitches?"

"I'm going to yak"  x2391238120938

"C bracket! C is for serious!"

"If we win the C bracket, we're going to have to get.... henna tattoos!"

Ducky's timid directions: "You might want to take a right ahead"

Quoting Arrested Development and doing the chicken dance. 

This weekend went down in history.

New Year's Resolutions!

I usually don't do this.. because for the past 22 years of my life, each year already had a purpose (I mean that I can remember). Usually with school and extracurriculars or what not. But now that I am out of school and do not have a real job, I need some purpose and direction.

1. Obvious one. Find a full time job. And actively pursuing it such as attending career fairs or networking. I would like some sort of marketing, communication job. But honestly, any entry level job would be acceptable. Aside from sales or something.

2. Get in shape. This is the first time in a long time that I'm not part of a team and not actively working out. Got a 24 hour membership, and hopefully I'll be on top of it. I think I just need to make it a lifestyle and habit.

3. Figure out what I want to do with life. Work at a job and gain experience and work my way up? Or pursue graduate school? If so, in what? Psych? Therapy? Something else entirely? Teaching? Much to figure out.

4. Stay true to God. Hm.. Probably should've put this one higher up. Well, it's not really listed in priority, more like what I thought of. But still, maybe this is a bad start. Haha..

5. Hmm..

I guess that's it for now. I don't want to do specific goals, but more general ones. More like lifestyle goals. And I wanted to put up realistic resolutions that I am definitely capable of achieving. Maybe I should put down "make more friends" as number 5.. Hahah..

Anyways, happy 2011!

New Phone!

Yay, new phone! Slightly overdue. I started with the razor in 2006, but it was the old model so we got it for free. My rzr had little memory, no space for SD card (like the newer models). In 2008, I got a Samsung slide phone that I liked a lot. It wasn't anything nifty, but the screen was vibrant, it had more memory and I liked it. I had the phone for less than a year when I lost it at SeaWorld somehow. It was sad (but I got to go to SeaWorld a 3rd time cuz of it). I looked at Craig's List for phone, but ended up deciding to just wait it out a year and get a subsidized phone with Tmobile when our contract ended. So I used that razor again for another year. That thing had a battery life of one phone conversation. Only able to store 30 text messages. The hinge was on the verge of breaking right before I got my new phone.

After our contract was up, I looked into getting some sweet deals for phones. I knew my mom would never agree for a data plan, so I had to convince my dad. He wanted to get a e-reader or an iPad, but then realized that maybe he should get a phone that could do all that. I told him he should because it would be more convenient, but came at the price of a data plan. In the end he agreed because he also would be getting a GPS out of it (we're like one of the few families left that don't have a GPS system, I've never really needed one because printing out directions is easy enough, and I have a decent sense of direction). Once I had him convinced, it was easier to also convince him that I should get a data plan too. In the end, he gave me a limit on the phone bill and said if I could figure something out in that range, he would do it. And I did it, with 67 cents to spare.

So here's my new phone. The LG Optimus T. I've had fun with it so far. But I also majorly failed. I went to a store to get a screen protector and I epically failed at putting it on. At first there was one little speck/air bubble, when I tried to salvage it, it just kept getting worse. But I kept trying. Finally, I ended up with something like 10 air bubbles/dusts stuck in there before I gave up. And I had a white background before but it made all the dust too noticeable so I changed it to a dark blue one to try to hide it more.

Hurray for smartphones!