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Remember when you were single and the amount of time you took make yourself look good? It was all like the gym, a shower and some cold brews with the crew on the weekends. Your plans were simple then and you took time to keep yourself in shape.

Posting a good job description is lot a [...]

When the first chance to switch from recruiting to sourcing came my way, I jumped on it like a Spider Monkey. Yeah, sure, sourcers are labeled nerdy, geeky, and homely, but our work is fun. And, to be good a sourcer you shouldn’t have to guzzle Red Bull, and bang out hundred complex Boolean search [...]

I was so frustrated when Atlanta kept getting snubbed for recruiting conferences I wanted throw my Hotpocket at all the organizers. I mean we have some big names here in Atlanta.
Residing in Hotlanta we have the nation’s whiz-bang sourcer, the sleuthiest sleuth of them all, Shally Steckerl. Just look up Recruiter in your dictionary and [...]

Recruiters know that the client always comes first, but that is changing. Candidates are becoming more important than the client. In the past, recruiters always focused on the client needs and ditched candidates that didn’t pan out.
Today, IT companies are in a hiring frenzy. But finding candidates has been tough. Businesses have not changed how [...]

Recruiters, let me tell you something. We’ve lost the basics of recruiting. It’s been replaced with idealistic disillusioned recruitment methods. The problem with most Recruiters is that we get some social media knowledge. A little info or a nugget and we become experts overnight. The fact is, you don’t know what the hell you are [...]

Our current unemployment rate is like the McRib sandwich. With a lot of hype and marketing, the McRib was McDonald’s finest obesity marketing scheme to date. It was a boneless pork patty shaped like it had bones. Then it was slathered in BBQ Sauce, and eaten between a spongy sandwich bun. Whenever the sandwich made [...]

When I got into IT recruiting 10 year ago nerds frustrated the hell out of me. I called them. They never call me back. I called again and again. No return calls. And, you know why? I never gave them a reason to call me back.
Candidates typically use their mobile number on resumes and they [...]

America has a new crop of technology enthusiasts being harvested. It’s the social media mavericks, the addicts, and the casual users.  It’s you, my friend. It’s us. We are the ones that have loaded up social media websites and we’ve created fields of information.
Since I have been in Recruiting over 10 years, I can honestly [...]

People want real time news, info and data these days and they are getting it from Twitter. Twitter gives real time data, not indexed data. Google search results are sometimes old and moldy info.
So, Google paid an estimated $15 million for the Twitter’s feed. As a result, Twitter saw a boost in its traffic.
Look at [...]

Saturday mornings in the 70’s I’d watch the Superfriends. As soon as American Bandstand came on, I sprang outside and fled away on my Huffy bike. Back then the air was crisp, sky was blue, streets were safe, rock music was played and you didn’t have to wear bike helmets. Life was good.
Then a recession [...]

Here is a prediction. By this summer you will have to load the Flash plugin for all phones using Android.  IF that happens. I’m defecting to CrApple.
I don’t want Flash. I already have to use it for the web on my home computer and you know what, I tried to remove Adobeware off my computer.
Now [...]

Forgot your password? No problem. Just follow the steps and answer the questions:
A temporary password will be emailed to you along with an incredibly long link. However, you will not receive the email until 1 hour has elapsed for each attempted login.
Once you have logged in with the temporary password you will need to answer [...]

Forget that pathetic packet of coffee over in the break room and try some of my Recruiting Powder Protein. Just pour some of this into your water bottle every morning. Don’t be alarmed if some powder floats up enveloping you in a cloud of recruiting goodness. Take it in. Breath it out. Ahhhh.
As you take [...]

The Nerdy IT Manager tried to order a life sized iron cast of Han Solo. The purchasing department caught it. It was rejected. An uprising occurred. Corporate HR surge was sent in to quell the unrest. You were caught in the middle. Now the Nerdy IT manager hates HR; therefore he hates you, the [...]

The break room Microwave is crusty and infused with a multitude of odors. It never gets cleaned and it’s probably 10 years old. You stand close enough to a break room microwave, you can get a tan and curl your hair.
So that is why I’m moving away from traditional microwave methods. I am promoting the [...]

If you had a job this year you weren’t so lucky after all. If you did NOT have a job you probably played tennis, golf and did a lot of blogging, tweeting and other fun social stuff.

So here is the deal. For those of us that had to work like 80 hours a week, were [...]

I know, I know, I know this is mostly a Recruiting Blog, but I’m also a gamer and recruit for the gaming industry. Why? Because Sparky,  it’s a 10 billion dollar industry that needs good game developers - It needs Recruiters too.
So when I read  a recent blog posting of how the Unreal engine was running on the [...]

Nexus One is the Google Phone that you will be able to purchase directly from Google. Here is the backside of the phone.

Ever took your kid to work because it was “Take Your Kid to Work Day”?
I never understood this. It should be called half day because that is how much work you are going to get done.
 Here’s how it usually goes down on these special days.
The worker drags their kid(s) to the office. They sit at [...]

Being that I’m a Recruiting Manager in Corporate America, I have tested a lot of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). And, they all have one thing in common. They do the same thing. Sure, some tout being able to tie into social media websites, but they all do the same thing – track candidates through the [...]