Yet Another "Moving to Seattle" Post!

[allforcats]

Car Insurance again
Saw this advertised on TV last night: Insurance.com -- where you can get four competitive rates in one fell swoop.
You need a zip code. You could use 98104 which is a downtown Seattle number.

[TheseGoTo11]

Originally Posted by Hamza

My entire professional work experience has been in NYC. I... I don't really know how work without using (a) inflated, flowery corp-speak, (b) covering my ass, (c) prepending every statement with "We saved the company money by..."

Please teach me your strange jedi ways, Obi-Wan Thesego?

Best teacher is awkward meetings, and I've had plenty jumping back and forth between the East Coast and West Coast.

Seattle business relationships are about rapport, either through out-of-work interests or a professional niche. So stories about snowboarding in Taos, writing code for cell phone operating systems, or developing a pr campaign targeted at aviation bloggers do well there. Telling them you made $5 million at your last hedge fund, or cut operating costs 20% by implementing a new HR system won't do as well. People there like to connect through common, specific, interests. They're less likely to be impressed with generic accomplishments like New Yorkers are.

So I'd pick out the facts, i.e. the steak, not the sizzle, about your job and build on those. What HR software, what specific processes, etc. Then talk about how great it was when everyone worked together afterwards, and use anecdotes - "you'd go to the company cafeteria, and new hires would eat with 20 year veterans, before the new process you'd see a lot more people eating alone".