Michael Glenn's Blog – May 2009 Archive (6)

Let the Games Begin! A whole new Recruiting world awaits....

Let me explain something here to the guys. When you get married, Game Over.

I was playing a video game. It was 2 AM. I was using my Plantronics headset with mic shouting at my team of online gamers (mostly college kids) when all of a sudden my wife pulls the electrical plug.

We were on the last level to slay the Dragon monster and she drops the power strip in my lap. Friggin’ unplugged and offline, my team lost hours worth of… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on May 21, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

10 Steps to Being a Geeky IT Recruiter

This is my story. What I’m about to tell you are graphic details of my early days as an IT recruiter. If you can’t stomach this, then stop and read John Sumser's Recruiting 101 (actually, he blogs relevant stuff).

I was part of corporate experimental recruiting program in the late 90’s.

My job? Infiltrate a ring of IT user groups. Know them. Study them. Learn their habits and even live with them. I did just that for years. But then, something went terribly… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on May 17, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Animal, The Recruiter, The Recruiting Animal

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 matter, but he is one of the most influential names in the… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on May 8, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Keeping it Real like Willy

Willy dips Skoal, hunts, drives a tractor and is missing a finger. But he has a great personality and extreme likeability factor too.

When he is not outdoors killing defenseless animals he is updating his Facebook account. We are like his livestock and he is constantly feeding us daily tidbits and photos.

The single most incredible fact about Willy is that women love him. On his wall posts women leave flirty posts and even going so far to ask him out. That’s unheard of in… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on May 8, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Boom! Youre in a Database!

Three things in life are certain. Death, Taxes and you will be in a Database. As soon as the Doc slaps your fanny and your mom cries your name – Boom in you’re in a Database.

Get a loan, a credit card, buy a house or a car – Boom in you’re in Database.

About the only thing you can do to escape being entered in a database is to be raised by wolves in the wilderness. But then you risk some scruffy environmental scientist discovering you, shooting you with a tranquilizer and… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on May 8, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Free Stuff for the Thrifty Recruiter

Remember back in college when you weighed all of 96 pounds and half of it was hair? You were lean and mean back then. You ate cereal for lunch and dinner, everything was paid in cash. Rent was like $75 that you were always paid late.

Yeah, those were the good days. Life was easy and the only gizmo you had was a math calculator your parents bought for your birthday freshmen year. Hey don’t laugh. I still have it and it… Continue

Added by Michael Glenn on May 4, 2009 at 10:03am — 1 Comment