So I was sitting at my favorite bar this week drinking a nice smoked porter  and I was trying to come up with what I wanted to accomplish in the upcoming year (okay.. I typically don't try to think about work too much while I am drinking, but as it turns out the beer I tried previously was very bad and I was doing as much as possible to remove it from my memory.

I decided to try to come up with my resolutions of things that I was not going to do this year.. Here are a few.  Please add your not-resolutions as well!  It is harder than you think...

1) I will not change companies again.  Yea- this is a big one.  I am sure those at my current company are somewhat happy to see this one at the top (atleast I hope..).  It is a pretty tricky thing to do in this industry... find a company that a really fits my sourcing personality (whatever that means).  In three years I have now been with three different companies.  I guess I was more of a contractor than I would admit.

2) I will not chase every new internet fad/search methodolgy that I hear about.  Sure, they are fun to learn about - but in reality... when I look back at how much time was spent, would I have been better off just learning about the new ideas that interested me the most and finding candidates with them?

3) I will not spend time on worthless candidates just because I like them.  Yea, this is going to be a tricky one.  I can name a few candidates I've sourced in the past few weeks that Phone Screened awesome for me, had decent resumes and then bombed hiring manager interviews more than once.  I might think they are great candidates but, if in the end, the hiring managers don't like them (and there is no more selling I can do) I need to dump them!

 Well those are my top three at the moment - please add some of your own.