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Blog Post: RChilli Intelligent Solutions- Making Difference in Education Sector: Added by Rchilli Parser at 8:50am on November 30, 2021

Topic: Seinfeld had "Low-Talker" and "Mulva". We had "DNPG": un of everything and everyone without regard for the consequences. Sponges? Bras? Master of your domain? If you are a fan, you know what I’m referring to. The mere mention of “low-talker” or “Mulva” or “puffy shirt” still conjures a devilish grin on my face. To this day, the recruiters in my office use similar nicknames to remember candidates, clients or situations that we have experienced. “Crazy, Pot-smokin’ Granny”, “Beatle Guy” and “Robert” (yes, we have a thing here for the name Robert), are just a few of the many nicknames that we’ve devised that represent a candidate that made us angry, embarrassed or just plain insulted. Just when we think we’ve “seen it all”, along comes another. Just as Seinfeld had his greatest nemesis in Newman, we have ours. His name is “Drunken No-Pants Guy” and he will go down as our ultimate recruiting horror story. Drunken No-Pants Guy, heretofore referred to as DNPG, started as your typical candidate. He had the skills. We had the job. After an uneventful courtship, offer and acceptance, my partner, Shelley, arranged to meet DNPG at his hotel so she and I could escort him into the client for his first day of work. This was standard procedure for us in cases involving high profile clients. It was especially important in this instance, since we had never actually met DNPG. All our interaction with him to this point had been done via phone or email. Shelley called DNPG when his flight arrived and arranged to pick him up the next morning since the hotel was on her route to the office. That’s where the “normal” part of the story ends. The horror story begins as she arrives at the office without DNPG in tow. She’s as white as a ghost when she asks me to go back to the hotel with her. “He’s either sick, a pervert or drunk”, she says, as she tried to compose herself. “Why?”, I asked. “Because when he came to the door, he wasn’t wearing any pants”, she replied. So up the hotel stairs we go, looking like we’re about to raid some seedy prostitution ring. I go to knock on the door but find that it’s ajar. I take my chances and go with what’s behind door number three for the win. As the door swings open, there sits DNPG, sitting on the sofa with a bottle of booze staring back at him from the pre-fab wood coffee table in front of him. “DNPG (of course I used his real name here), are you okay?”, I said. He stands up. He is fully-dressed from the waist up. He even has his tie neatly done in a classic Windsor. From waist-down, he is completely “nakey”, as my nine-year-old son says. Willie is Free. A snake is loose. You get my meaning. He comes to the door as if he fully intends on going with us for his first day on the job. Two or three steps away from me, I catch the smell of B.O. (the B. stayed with the O. – for you Seinfeld fans). On top of that, I get a whiff of vodka and vomit, but not necessarily in that order. I give him the benefit of the doubt and ask “Are you drunk?” He mumbles. “We can’t take you to our client like this”, I tell him. He stumbles. I tell him to go back and lay down, but he gets hostile and decides that it would be a good idea to take a swing at me instead. The next thing I know, I am actually holding DNPG by the armpits so he doesn’t hit the floor with his face. I have asked Shelley to never tell me where his man-parts were as we both struggled to get him back to his bed. We locked the door behind us. I think we both burned the clothes we were wearing that day. On the way back to the office, we tried our best to come up with a solution. We could tell the client he missed his flight. We could go back and pour a pot of coffee down his throat and deliver him in the afternoon. We could pay a sober, pants-wearing guy to be pretend to be DNPG, but then again, he wouldn’t possibly be able to actually be DNPG since he was sober and wearing pants… In the end, we decided that the best option was to tell the client the truth. After all, who could possibly make all this up? Thankfully, the client understood and we were able to find a suitable replacement for DNPG, a wonderful gentleman whom we shall forever refer to as GWRDNPG (Guy Who Replaced Drunken No-Pants Guy). The “teaching-points” of the story are quite simple. Tell the truth, no matter what. And have fun. Just like Jerry taught us. Sometimes you just have to laugh. …; Added by Greg Eastmer at 7:06pm on November 14, 2011

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Blog Post: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS: BUSINESS OWNERS/BOSSES AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS.

An administrative assistant has a lot of responsibilities. Some of the business office procedures are internet research,…; Added by Christine at 1:42pm on September 19, 2008

Blog Post: Building Your Brand: Tips for Direct Mail Success

The growing number of channels in which to advertise your…

Added by Caitlin Purvis at 5:32am on November 20, 2020

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Blog Post: Interview Scheduling Email: Top 6 Mistakes You Must Avoid: At the stage of interview scheduling, you are close to one of the most important steps during the hiring procedure. However, your interview scheduling email is…; Added by Rakuna at 2:03am on July 30, 2021

Blog Post: Agile Recruiting: Top Tips and Best Practices For Recruiters in 2021: The Covid-19 Pandemic has disrupted the way we work and may continue to do so in the next several months. We’ve talked about the bad and the ugly: Possible upcoming recession, increasing business…; Added by Rakuna at 11:29am on November 27, 2021

Blog Post: Top 20 Benefits of Applicant Tracking System: Benefits of Applicant Tracking System for agency recruiters

Every day recruiters are flooded with hundreds of resumes for various jobs…; Added by Eli Franklin at 5:22am on April 16, 2020