by Jennifer Fey | May 23, 2018 | Firewood Life

The smell of the ice. Loving what you do. There’s a movie from the ’90s—The Cutting Edge—which my adolescent self watched more times than I can count from behind the counter of my parents’ video store in Portland. I watched everything standing behind that counter...

by Ciara Dunne | May 17, 2018 | Firewood Life

Many moons ago, in the summer of 2009, I was living with my dad in Boston. I’d had a particularly hard year, my college workload had nearly doubled in the second year of my degree, and I’d just recently ended a stressful three-year relationship with my boyfriend. The...

by Brian Verbaken | May 8, 2018 | Firewood Life

All in an effort to increase collaboration within and between teams, companies are creating open work spaces, starting internal social networks, and organizing off-site team-building exercises. Collaboration falls on a wide spectrum, so let’s not focus on the...

by Alana Hatcher | Apr 24, 2018 | Firewood Life

How I Got Into Recruiting: The Adventure Begins My adventure in recruiting started 16 years ago when I decided to switch fields. I became a candidate for a recruiter position and, naturally, I had to go through the interview process before being the one on the other...

by Firewood Team | Apr 19, 2018 | Firewood Life

We cannot stop smiling. Why? For the first time in our young company’s history, Firewood has been recognized as one of the 2018 Bay Area Best Places To Work, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. And,...

by Bella Bottini | Apr 10, 2018 | Firewood Life

Early in my career, my director stated that working in events was listed as the third most stressful job that year. At the time, it was too early for me to have an opinion about it—however, it didn’t take too long for me to build one. I was travelling about 10–15...