Recruiting Reviewers Novels & Stories

"So option two: someone outside The Covenant who has legitimate reason to recommend candidates. A recruiter. A hiring consultant. Someone who specializes in placing specialized pharmaceutical talent." Claude's head came up. "You're talking about impersonating a legitimate recruiter."

Subject: Submission Review—Immediate Opportunity I gasped. Mrs. Selene Harold, your recent work has been reviewed by the editorial team at Lyric Press. We are impressed by your voice, your pacing, and your style. We would like to offer you a position as a contributing writer. Full training and mentorship will be provided. Please reply within 48 hours to accept. My eyes widened.

At least, those recruited by Keegan had been selected based on their skills and abilities. Back in the spring and fall recruiting seasons, it was Keegan's busiest time. With so many people submitting their resumes, screening candidates was a very stressful task. In addition to the candidates' education, their own professional abilities were also very important. Therefore, the hiring standards set by the Vinci Rivera Group were particularly high. Candidates had to go through four rounds of interviews.

[PrimeStar is an amazing and creative business. Many of their engineers are incredibly creative, in addition to Stewart, the boss, being amazing. I'm expecting to have a meaningful talk with Stewart and some of his engineers when I visit again in the near future. Because the NMI journal used a double-blind review process, reviewers were unaware of the paper's submitter. Kevitt Smith was unaware of the true identity of the creator of the piece he had praised.

I answered the question the way the question had been asked: specifically. “Our in-house review team. Three senior analysts with backgrounds in prosecutorial work and clinical advocacy. They operate on a twenty-four-hour response protocol. Escalations are logged. The log is auditable. A designated supervisor currently Lena, our head of product reviews the queue weekly for pattern anomalies and load balancing.” “And you.” I held her eyes. “I have administrator access to all queues. Standard for a principal engineer in an active platform. I do not, as a practice, open individual case files. I look at aggregate metrics.”

Elma said, “we make this place boring in the best way.” Linda grinned. “I can do boring.” Elma smiled. “Good. Because boring means it works. Boring means no 2 AM calls. Boring means we did our job.” She looked at all three of them. People who’d been passed over, pushed aside, told to stop asking questions. People who cared more about getting it right than getting noticed. “Any questions?” Elma asked. Mira raised her hand immediately. “What’s the first vendor we’re reviewing?”

The book was published. --- The reviews arrived across March and April. The editor sent them—the ones she gathered, the significant ones, the ones that she thought Don should see. She sent them by post, each review clipped from the publication, each with a brief note in her handwriting indicating which publication it came from and whether she thought Don would find it useful. She did not send every review. She sent the substantial ones, the ones that engaged with the argument rather than simply announcing the book's existence. The others she filtered out, a service she had performed for Don since the first book, a service he had never had to request because she had simply begun doing it and

I mutter, lowering myself beside her. She shifted on the sofa to angle herself toward me. “You know we’re always looking for key talent to work for our organization in various areas covering a broad range of subjects. We’ve got computer scientists, physicists, attorneys,” she said, gesturing at me. Is this a recruiting campaign? “As well as doctors. When we met Perry, we thought he might make a great addition to the team but before we extend an offer, we conduct a very thorough background check to make sure the person is the right fit for the Obsidian Knights.”