I have been thinking a lot about "change" lately..., and I don't mean the loose stuff you put in the empty Sparklett's bottle at the end of the day. Although change is sometimes painful and can be extremely difficult, it is typically necessary in order to move forward in life or career advancement.

Almost two years ago, I left a comfortable job with a search firm that specialized in nurse management search and the occasional hospital CEO, VP-HR, etc. I had become very comfortable in that niche and LOVED my job... no...,- truly LOVED what I did every single day. I enjoyed my co-workers and the owners of the firm. They had become part of my family. This is about the point when, due to an unforeseen situation, I made a rash decision to leave this job that I loved and take a huge, flying leap out of the nest that had been my home for five years....

Enter the world of corporate recruitment... I was hired rather quickly by an emerging technology development company to recruit key people needed to propel the business through product development and into launch. And guess what..., I LOVED this job, too. I would have to count that position as one of the single greatest working experiences I have ever had. Not only did I get to work with and recruit exceptional people but I was part of the whole new business process and excelled in this world of technology that had been so outside of what I had been familiar with. Life sometimes works that way...

I sit at my antique oak roll-top desk pounding furiously at my keyboard from my home office - where I NOW work. I have entered the world of independent recruitment consulting and business development for Telios Corporation. The experiences that I am now having would never have happened had I not risked it all and taken a chance on "change."

This did not occur without plenty of pain nor was it, by any stretch of the imagination, easy. As a matter of fact, I still feel pangs of extreme homesickness when I see a hospital or health care organization has an executive-level search under way. It gets in your blood, you know?

Change is usually warranted and can lead to great things..., it brought me to RBC and well, what more do I need to say?