Glennlist

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 [...]

When was the last time you’ve seen a Nike TV spot describing one of their shoes? Um, like never. Nike is an image. When they run a 30 second spot, they show Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Lance Armstrong. They are into SELLING an IMAGE not shoes.
Advertising your job is a waste of time these [...]

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 [...]

Understanding a database is Nerdy complicated. But Recruiters need databases to store candidate info and reports. If you get a moment, check out Infodome. It is a free and a paid site that lets you create databases with ease. It has drag and drop formatting, good instructions, and makes putting together reports a snap. Infodome [...]

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 [...]

The Jobs Bill won’t create many jobs. And you know what? It sucks. We’ve lost millions of jobs and this bill is not enough. Let me say it again. Jobs-Bill-sucks-huge-big-time.
We have a solution that is so easy and so plain as day that it’s right front of your face. But we’ve become a bunch of [...]

Selected, rejected and ejected. That’s the wash cycle Recruiters use on their candidates. But what I’m about to tell you is extremely important. So important, that it’s the very root cause why 99.99999% of all candidates despise Recruiters. It’s the very same reason you hate your Ex (all mine live in Texas), the same reason [...]

If you are a Recruiter who uses Twitter then you have a lot to be excited these days. Companies are turning towards Social Media  to help cut costs. TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based real-time job search engine, has partnered with TweetDeck to launch JobDeck.
JobDeck application indexes recruitment related tweets from across the Twittersphere, much like TwitJobSearch.
Recruiters can [...]

Friends, I’m thinking about all this social media and how it’s used in recruiting today. 2009 just sucked for recruiting. And, the only thing that kept Recruiters sane was social media.

Let’s focus on social media for a second here.

You are what you eat, right? Therefore, you are what you tweet. It’s true. A lot of [...]

Iranians used Twitter to expose the corrupt elections and political turmoil in 2009. It had a profound ripple effect on how Social Media is used. And it was an A-ha moment for Recruiters globally.
Just like the stifled Iranian protests that seeped through Twitter feeds, 2010 will be about controlling what the outside world thinks about [...]

The college years was all about sleeping in and playing Madden 9 hours a day. Some poor students had to work while others lounged around the dorm waiting to party around midnight. Life was easy except for the occasional projectile vomit moments.

I work with a bunch of trendy IT Nerds. They are the new crop [...]

It’s Friday. You got a date planned with your soul mate. Reservations were made in advance. Then Tom over in Accounting, a total Dork with a capital D, asks for an activity Report on all the candidates in the last six months.

Cindy in the PMO Group created half dozen flow charts on the Recruiting process. She [...]

I’ve been playing Golf for seven years and I am bad. I’ve dropped cash on Ping Irons, Big Bertha Drivers, Dry-fit golf shirts, and even a Mack Daddy golf bag that I take family canoe trips in. No matter how good the equipment, I just suck palsy bad.
Most of the clubhouses around Atlanta have my [...]

Who the Hell is the Recruiting Animal?
Is he a beast? A predator? A caged animal pissed off with Gen Y whiners and the recruiting world?
He is a grown-ass man that spends a lot of time on Twitter, and Recruiting blogs. Nobody knows if he is married, has kids, or even has an income for that [...]