In Monday's edition of Metro
Boston, Randstad's Eileen Habelow
was our featured Boston's
Future Leader.
Currently a regional VP and director for Randstad USA, Eileen began her career
at AT&T, started her own HR consulting company as she started her family,
and transitioned back to the corporate world full-time in the staffing business
in 2000. As a mother of three, Eileen calls family her “cornerstone,” and is
thankful to be in a career that combines her passions for organizational
management, education, and helping people. Chamber president & CEO
Paul Guzzi asked her about Randstad, living in
PG: If you were recruiting someone to
work for you, what would be your number one selling point about Ranstad?
EH: To work for Randstad you have to
like talking with people and asking tons of questions to understand their
operating reality: If you’re interviewing a candidate you have to understand
what they want to achieve and in what types of e
nvironments they thrive,
and if you’re talking with a potential client you have to ask lots of questions
to understand exactly where the pain is. It’s a fascinating industry
because you get to talk with so many different company leaders in so many
different types of companies.
PG: What is your favorite thing about
working in
EH: Every time I drive down
PG: How can young professionals expand
their networks and increase their impact in
EH: I believe in networking without
necessarily trying to “achieve” something on every encounter is a great way to
meet people who may or may not be influential for you at the first meeting, but
who knows about the future. My goal is simply to meet different people
wherever I go – at some point in life, many of these encounters will become very
important or even valuable to me, professionally or personally. However,
if I went to every event looking for only the next best business contact, I
think it would begin to become too much a part of “working” and not enough a
part of just getting to meet new people, period.
Read the full interview here.
