In the words of Andrea Bocelli, it’s “ time to say goodbye.” The past 3 months I have spent in Europe have been absolutely incredible. I have explored the bone church of Kutna Hora, climbed to the top of towers, swam through caves in the Adriatic Sea, hiked through Plitvice Lake National Park, mastered the…

Just like that another week has come and gone, and I have somehow reached my last weekend in the Czech Republic as part of the IIP program. I have to say this weekend has been a bit bittersweet. I celebrated my last night with  some of my friends before they returned home on Saturday, I…

This week, as some of the other students in other programs celebrated a goodbye dinner, I was forced to confront the harsh reality that I am in fact coming home soon. As my European adventure comes to a close, I find myself trying to fit as many things as possible into my day. I have…

One of the first things my dad ever taught me was an expression I have lived my life by. He taught me that “In life there are only good experiences and good stories.” If there ever were an experience that completely embodied this expression, it would be my past week in Croatia. Croatia is one…

As I approach the halfway point of my internship at Cpl Jobs, it is interesting to reflect on what I have learned about the recruiting industry as of yet. It has been a wonderful opportunity this past week to see CPL’s success as we celebrated the end of our financial calendar. Despite the highly competitive…

Working in the recruiting industry, there are a variety of factors and inputs that we rely on to provide value to our candidates and clients. While many of the services we provide are fairly basic, last week I became acutely aware of the inputs needed to provide quality service when I no longer had access…

Though working in the Czech Republic is quite similar to the states, there are certain economic or political dissimilarities that diverge and shape the way business is conducted. While I have previously discussed how the low unemployment rate and differing economic standing have effected the recruiting industry, limiting the talent pool and challenging recruiters to…

As I am quickly approaching the end of my first month here in the Czech Republic, I am finding this place to feel more and more like home. As I get a better sense of the places around me and slowly learn a little bit more of the language, things seem very family; yet even…

For the past two weeks, I have been working for CPL Jobs Prague. Cpl Jobs is a division of CPL Resources, a global recruitment, staffing, and outsourcing-services company with 36 offices worldwide. While Cpl Resources operates predominantly in Ireland, as Ireland’s largest recruitment agency, Cpl jobs is one of 10 individual companies organized under Cpl…