When Losing is Winning: Reflections on a Recruiting Job Transition

“I think I’ll lose my job tomorrow,” I told my husband. Earlier that day, the day after Labor Day, my third manager in a year had set a mandatory face-to-face meeting for 8:30 a.m. the next day, a day I usually worked from my home office. At the start of 2018 I had received the largest raise and bonus in five review cycles. Yet the talent acquisition operating model was shifting. I’m an experienced recruiter in the semiconductor space. In this niche, as in many other fields, change is constant.