I might piss off a lot of Recruiters here, but who cares. 

Recruiters can't be trusted. Right up there with Car Salesmen and boiler room Stock Brokers, we are some of the slickest back hand dealing corporate raiders in all the land.

We are the group of scoundrels at every convention trying to collect candidates.

We are the ones standing at the elevator handing out business cards.

We are the ones writing blogs on how to circumvent gate keepers.

We are the party crashers.

We are the drunken idiots streaking through the college quads.

However,

We are the ones ...

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SourceCon 2010 represents you, the Recruiter. It represents the hard working Americans fighting in the trenches every day to create a safe, clean, and healthy planet while using the latest in Boolean search string technology. That's why I am challenging the folks at ERE to embrace my vision of SourceCon 2010.

The stage is your basic five story iPhone that comes with a 200 foot long video screen in the shape of Bluetooth Jawbone headset on each side. This stage is designed for the Georgia Dome and is part of the World Wide SoureCon Live Set ®

On each row ...

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These days you can stalk plenty of people online through Twitter, Facebook and Google.

But, if you want to get your foot in the door, don't over stalk Recruiters.

Here 8 things you should avoid doing to a Recruiter.

1) No more than 20 Tweets in an hour.

2) Never follow the Recruiter to the bathroom and talk him while they are taking a whiz.

3) Don't call a Recruiter's Boss's Boss and ask him to call you back.

4) Calling for updates is ok. Email is better, but texting a cell phone for updates is ...

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You know him. You met him once and wish you hadn't. He calls your work phone, then cell phone and work phone again to leave you a message. He knows you are screening his calls, but that doesn't stop the obnoxious job seeker.

He is friends with someone in management and thinks you are his personal Recruiter, his personal resume writer, his personal career coach. He'll keep calling and calling, and calling until you break down. He is the obnoxious job seeker. Know him. Fear him.

Learn, Read, Live more here.

I've had a couple loser friends over the years, always broke and always unemployed.  I thought I had ditched them but they showed up on Facebook. Now, I think they are wiser for the times.

But guess what, you have something in common with them again other than beer or football. It's Social Media. And it has grown out of control. We have become an online community of self absorbed losers. We spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter promoting ourselves.

Social Media Junkies often ask themselves, "Why not do this full time? Why not build ...

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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 Recruiter.

As you recruit, the manager shoots down all your candidates. He despises every candidate you send him. Everything you do just sucks.

New recruiting plan: Infiltrate the group and become a trusted partner. Doesn't work. You're an outsider. You don't belong.

You ...

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Starbucks is selling instant coffee. I tried it yesterday. It was good. I know what you're thinking. Folders! Flavor crystals and all that asinine marketing, nope, just ain't there. But, I promise you this, it doesn't have that instant coffee taste. Give it a try

How about Instant Recruiting? That is a direction we are heading. Companies are looking to get rid of traditional Recruiters and have hiring managers, marketing and small team of junior Recruiters to mine social media websites.

Here is what you can expect. Hiring Managers are active in online social groups. They will ...

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Remember college? Or maybe you can't. You slept all day and partied all night. You had zero accountability except making good grades. Then you got a job, spouse, house and kids. And then, Boom! You're responsible for a lot of things, pal. Like a mortgage, college and keeping your job.

Agencies are accountable for every hire they make, if the person bails or is terminated, then the company can recoup placement fees.

Accountability, it's the word of the day. And, it may be the Recruitment word of the year. Here is why.

Corporate Recruiters were never accountable ...

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Once upon a time there was a magical land where Recruiters made heaps and piles of cash. Pit rooms, placement bells, residual commissions and 400% mark ups grew on every tree. Every day was sunny and every resume was perfect. Every submittal was a fit too, no questions. Then one day….

Depression 2.0 occurred.

We Recruiters couldn’t pay for afford Starbucks and were forced made to drink the crap brew that is served in the break room.

As Depression 2.0 casted a dark cloud challenged Recruiters, some cowards ran toward sought safety in Government jobs. Other Recruiters ...

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This is the year of the Cougar, Brah and Bro. Do not hire them! Trust me, these folks will ruin a Recruiting department in a New York minute. Here is how.

The Staffing Cougar

Staffing agencies are crowded with Office Cougars (aka Account Executives). They are fiercest of the Cougar species. They approach their prey (aka Hiring Managers) with little fear and maul them in broad day light. Not good, especially if your agency has a squeaky clean reputation. However, Staffing Cougars always come away with fresh reqs after a mauling.

The Corporate Recruiting Cougar

Best observed from afar in ...

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Today in Atlanta It's over 90 degrees and hotter than three hells.

But today in the Silicon Valley, it's ice cold between Google and Apple.

"OMG! Google and Apple are fighting!" the nerd nation cried out collectively in ASSIC (text messages).

Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) "resignation" from Apple Apple's Board of Directors today was not a surprise to most of the technology world. Especially after the Google Voice app being pulled from Apple.

Anyone who has a computer knows that both Apple and Google really hate Microsoft. That is why they teamed up in the first ...

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I have some indelible memories, like when my daughter was born and the day I got Google Voice. The Sun broke through dark clouds and I was totally like thank you Jesus! Finally, I can make free VOIP calls anywhere in the U.S with free SMS messaging!

Queue the Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" and slip away from away from all this high unemployment shouting, "I have Google Voice! I have Google Voice!"

GV opens up a whole new world for us nerdy recruiters too. Rich features that allow Recruiters to have multiple phone numbers - oh yeah, bring back ...

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What's the worse thing you can utter to Nerd? I mean what is the most terrifying, horrific, moment in a Nerds's life? Jar Jar Binks.

I'd rather dance naked to "We Built This City" in a crowded mall than see Jar Jar Binks in another Star Wars movie.

So, what's the worse thing you can do to a Recruiter? Redirect candidates from their job posting or company career page to another site.

Being that I make a living off Nerd herding, I don't want to rely on paid resume searches, and job postings.

I'm ...

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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 picture posted on their bulletin boards. They warn their members via loudspeaker whenever I tee it up. My friends even started to wear a cup. "Dude, just throw the golf ball," a friend once impatiently advised.

If you are a bad Golfer ...

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If you are a true Geek, not just a wanna-be geek, I'm talking true Geek to the core, then you have to be excited about what Google is doing with Wave. This project just rocks. Why? Because it does everything a true Geek wants.

It's that Boom Boom Pow!

Wave allows all Geeks to unite in harmoniously communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Geeks UNITE!

Any Geek can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add other Geeks at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind ...

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It's summer time already in the South, 90 degrees outside and humid as Vietnam 1969. The layoffs are still hot too. Not a whole lot of jobs reqs either. 

Your Boss is pacing the office like a half crazed Nazi commander waiting for orders to drop kick more recruiters out. Everyone is doing their best to look busy, marching down the halls as they peck away on their blackberry and even giving Social Media Recruiting presentations. 

Even a co-worker resorted to shacking up with an HR Manager.

"Eeeewww!" Recruiters collectively cry out.

Don't panic.  No need to go ...

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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 work! I've never had an out of body experience before but I was having one at ...

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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 recruiting industry.

He has style, character, and something important to say to the recruiting world.

Yes, he is out there. Alone. Somewhere holed up in cave, watching everyone, waiting and when ...

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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 the South!

He is an ok looking guy, but why do women dig Willy ...

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