Foreclosures, Love and Office Space

Jen Gabbert is busily readying the new and smartly decorated corporate office space in Glendale. Not dissuaded by the fact that the landlord mysteriously keeps changing the locks, Jen spends her mornings coordinating phones, electricity and all of those new parking spaces! Did I mention the office is the same price as our current one in Burbank?

Regarding Internet and conversational media, we are happily posting and tweeting notices of available candidates as well as new jobs. Google Analytics shows increases in Workway.com traffic steadily week after week with our bounce rate down to 36%. Branches supply the site with new content daily, rolling the "big snow ball" of words so that people find us easily and Twitter and Sweethearts candy unveiled plans to stamp Tweet Me on their heart shaped fruity candy.

While title and escrow business is down, the VMS group is enjoying placing a larger volume of high level positions in IT and engineering and feels confident about growth in that market. Bob May from VMS spent time with Darin from RTGIT to give him even more visibility on the web and he is currently recruiting for nuclear engineers. Fortunately Linda Schwartz was not shy to spell out N-U-C-L-E-A-R to me as I was challenged in this area and now am able to post it to this blog.

Voices continue to fail in Mesa, as Susan's client rescheduled a meeting due to laryngitis. While she and Jodi would like to see a pick up of escrow and title orders this quarter, they are filling call center positions and had no assignments end this week.

In Florida, Linda had a good week and is continuing to market via email and hot sheets. While there are layoffs in her market as home ownership turns towards "dream and not reality," the Orlando office is filling orders for home auctions and closers.

Stephanie in Ft. Lauderdale sees pickup in short sales and foreclosures and she has been moderating discussion about the DJSP merger. Stepanie has a client moving some operations to Lewisville and plans to work with the Dallas Metro branch on that transition. In Pittsburgh, we have some good leads and have signed an agreement for a new client to implement mid to late 1st quarter.

Kevin sees a sudden surge in the foreclosure world, lots of under $100K homes being bought by the investment community and mentioned something about "Bouncing off the Wall."

Orange County had four new placements this week in title and escrow with direct hire on the rise and the Inland Empire has five new placements scheduled to start on Monday.

In Dallas metro, one of our very close prospects sold their company this week putting our contract on hold and making room for "smiling and dialing." However, a brand new client driving on Cambell Road in Richardson walked through the door and placed an order for 3-5 collectors and a customer service representative placed by the branch on a temp assignment was converted to full time employee after just one day.

Biggest news in Texas however, is Erica Santoyo's wedding engagement as announced on Facebook. Congratulations, Erica. We are happy for you!

I enjoyed lunch with the Carlsbad office yesterday. Jill Bordwell is busy in sales with new prospects on the rise, she is moving seven minutes to the office and excited about Bullhorn's new Blackberry Sync. Shanel is rocking in recruiting and coordinating with other branches across the country in an effort to leave no order unfilled. I take back all tongue and cheek comments regarding frozen iguanas in Ft. Lauderdale as I am about to hop on the 101 freeway to Burbank in a torrential downpour. Thank you and have a great weekend!


Diane Prince Johnston
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