Being a president has it perks

In my work with people, leaving a good impression is more important than everything else. And confidence is an important part of leaving a good impression. I am a high-level recruiter, and people's trust is crucial for my success. They put their future in my hands and need to know they can depend on me. Just like I know I can trust the fiber-rich-active-ingredients yogurt in those sensitive days. You know, when I have high-level meetings with people I may hire.

Like today. And I forgot mine at home. Thank god we have an intern now. I can focus on the agenda, he can focus on the yogurt; he's not doing much here anyway. Early start this morning, almost before half past ten. And by 11 the day already looks promising, just like the horoscope said it would be. My first lunch meeting is at 3, with someone that wants to grow in a multi-national, multi-cultural company. Sounds promising, you don't find many candidates with such high aspirations these days. And he's showing initiative, too. By the age of 35 he created his own one-person company and appointed himself president. What better way to relate to other people than working alone and calling yourself president? I think people tend to open up more easily to presidents.
Anyway, the position is local sales representative, which is huge. For that, president still sounds a bit limited, maybe. Let's see what else we have on the short list before jumping to conclusions. Thoroughness is very important when you're working with people. Not quite as important as a leaving a good impression, but it ranks very high nevertheless.

So far we have a mogul, two emperors and a level-eight chief ninja priest.
One emperor already mentioned he could only work part-time; in the morning he needs to drop the dynasty at the kindergarten and then he has another part-time job which he does not want to abandon because it has potential for brilliant growth. I wouldn't normally expect anyone to be able to work full-time in sales anyway, but his can't-do attitude about something that cannot be done ticked him off the list. Beside that, an emperor doesn't sound as promising as you may think, but that's okay, you're not expected to know that if you don't have my experience and feel for people. And if I picked the other one, how would I justify that to the former? Best to be diplomatic and drop them altogether.
The mogul mentioned something about a parole officer and a loan officer which may not be very enthusiastic about him working in anything that involves other people's money.
And there's the priest. Well, he put Latin in 'known languages', I'll give him that; he could probably understand those PowerPoint presentations with "Lorem ipsum" that I see everywhere, but other than that priests are not very experienced with Office applications and computers. And I happen to know for a fact they're rather lazy during the week and then try to make up for it during weekends. Not a great sign. And a sales job involves overtime. It's not written in the job description, but it's common knowledge, you are expected to know in advance. And the rest of his title sounds a bit made-up. 

Come to think of it, fingers crossed for the president, the more I think about it the more he seems to be the best fit. Oh, and before I forget: he put in the résumé 'I am a very oriented person'. To an untrained eye such a statement may not sound like much, but it shows he has an oriented attitude. Towards what, it is not that important. What is important is the significant edge you get compared to people who write disoriented attitude. That's a big plus. He also put 'attetnion to details'. Twice. I'm sold. 100% sales material. Oh, if you still think the object of his attention is relevant, it all comes to light a few bullets below: "managing and planning resources for different projects around the globe". Mystery solved. And his voice sounded so nice on the phone. We have a winner!

I'll be proactive and have an offer ready for him, to finish quickly; I just remembered I need to take the cat to the vet afterwards; I cannot step back at this point, no matter how much he asks.

All in all, such a productive day today. If everything pans out -as I planned- I'll only need to set my status to 'Work from home' and leave earlier. An almost perfect day if it weren't for that idiot; this is the second day in a row when he brings full-fat. At least this time it's the one with pro-biotics. University is a waste for some people, I really don't know why we bother bringing interns here. Safe to say, this is not president material.