As the summer of 2020 draws to close, our team has learned an incredible amount of helpful information, skills, and tactics for dealing with the massive changes we’ve seen in our professional and personal lives due to the upheaval and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine. Now our team would like to share some of the things we’ve learned with you, so that you might be better prepared as we enter into this next phase of working while dealing with a worldwide crisis. Advanced Hires as a whole has been able to keep our heads above water, and we were even recognized as award-winners for being able to Pivot Not Panic when COVID threw new challenges our way.
We asked our employees to write a few thoughts, tips, and tricks they used during quarantine that they would want to share with other professionals that they believed might help them. The responses we got were so thorough and well-thought out, we decided to create a new series! Today are some suggestions from Senior Technical Recruiter Mike Karpinski:
“I try to maintain a positive attitude as much as possible by thinking the night before about what I want to accomplish the following day from an activity standpoint (of things I can control). Doesn’t have to be long thought process…even just a few minutes will suffice. Then once I achieve those activity goals it gives me a good mental boost.
“…What has worked best for me personally is to be somewhat structured in terms of a mental guideline, but not so rigid that you can’t be nimble if new ideas pop up…”
It really helps from an efficiency standpoint just having more of a game plan/or at least mental outline of what I want to hit the following day versus going wild, wild West (and no I am not talking about the Will Smith movie from like 20 years ago!). I have found what has worked best for me personally is to be somewhat structured in terms of a mental guideline, but not so rigid that you can’t be nimble if new ideas pop up in your head that same day. I guess from an IT buzzword standpoint – you could say being both agile and waterfall!”
