New line to use whenever a candidate or hiring authority leaves you a borderline huffy, almost immediate I am not interested or no need response via LinkedIn.
“I hope that was as liberating as it was for me.”
Michael Kornbluth
New line to use whenever a candidate or hiring authority leaves you a borderline huffy, almost immediate I am not interested or no need response via LinkedIn.
“I hope that was as liberating as it was for me.”
Michael Kornbluth
Hi Joe,
Joshua Kornbluth here, Recruitment Parter for the Human Edge, consider me a risk-free hedge.
Why are you experiencing hiring pains?
Is it the time sucking practice of sorting through resumes on weekends away from your friends and kids beyond lame?
Why can’t you find enough qualified candidates?
Is your job description blah that produces nothing but shruggish nah’s?
Why do you keep missing out on the best candidates for the job?
Is it overreliance on coding tests, or having a gun-shy recruiting partner who’s sloppy second best?
Why is your talent pool so shallow?
Does your recruiter watch reality TV shows at night in a permanently flatlined state of fixated wallow.
Is your recruiter not good at wooing?
Do they act immune to booing?
Have you considered removing interview steps?
Interview overkill is the kiss of death.
Only 30 percent of companies can fill roles in 30 days.
I’ll fill your role in 2 weeks.
Aggression pays.
The remaining companies take anywhere from 1-3 months to hire.
How are these hiring partners not getting fired?
Janis Joplin died a rock legend at 27.
I’ll fill your roles faster than it takes Janis to finish a bottle Southern Comfort in rock star heaven.
What special ingredient is missing from your team?
You haven’t worked with Headhunter Writer yet.
Your one-man pitch machine.
What’s preventing you from getting better company into your life?
You just haven’t worked with a recruiter with enough personality yet to woo Mr. Right.
Headhunter Writer excels at flirting with She Pronouns too.
Unlike your middle of the road meh recruiter.
I was born to woo.
Your Favorite Headhunter Writer,
Joshua Kornbluth
A Content Director who makes beachwear out of recycled bottle asks.
“What does a Headhunter Writer do?”
Where do I begin?
For starters, I sell the merits of why working with me is a win, win.
I’ll change your life in the blink of an eye.
With me in your life, you’ll never want to die.
What’s my added value you ask LinkedIn?
I save deals from imploding and bring them back to life.
With me in the driver’s seat, you only see green lights.
What does a Headhunter Writer do?
I’ll call you more than your own mother.
But respect your boundaries enough to never smother.
What does a Headhunter Writer do?
I hound new talent with exalted emotion.
They can’t help but reply with, “What’s with all the commotion?”
Headhunter Writer keeps new connections afloat with a simple note.
Let’s stay in touch regardless because I’ll sell you the hardest.
Headhunter Writer thinks like a monk.
And breathes renewed life into tired job descriptions that quite frankly stunk.
Nothing about Headhunter Writer is so, so.
He giftwraps candidates without the bow.
Headhunter Writer is a one-man pitch machine.
Do you want an injury prone softy or an old war horse like Nolan Ryan pitching for your team?
Headhunter Writer makes you feel less alone.
With Headhunter Writer in your life.
You’ll no longer feel like a lifeless drone.
Headhunter Writer sells with pop culture references galore, which never bore.
He’ll pitch, “Repping a 3rd generation programmer who works for Google.
He’s IT’s answer to the Rock family. And he loves to program with Golang too.
What’s your family legacy? Outside of sending rejected scripts about sexual harassment to Miramax pre-me too.
Headhunter Writer makes you feel singularly special.
You taught JavaScript to kids in the West Bank.
You really are a mensch and a half.
Hiring you is a no brainer mitzvah move for any staff.
You want out of New York?
Give a Headhunter Writer a ring.
He’s also known as the Relo King.
Headhunter Writer sells the need for better company in your life.
Because newer is better than played out, lost cause littered strife.
Headhunter Writer wants to take your company to the top while pitching your in-house gourmand chef who’s got an allergic reaction to slop.
Headhunter Writer is a family man poet killer seller wrapped into one.
How can you say no to this marriage of art and commerce devoid of Ken the Barista rocking the man bun?
Headhunter Writer is a one-man rock and roll band.
Who can go off script, and improvise with the best like Steely Dan.
Work with Headhunter Writer and you’ll get your own wall of sound.
Whatever your message is, it will get heard, even in an Australian bush with nobody else around.
Headhunter Writer doesn’t waste his time recycling the same tired drivel.
Aren’t you tired of working with the mediocre middle?
What does Headhunter Writer do?
He’ll sell your story, vision or cause with unmatched glee, as long as you pay his staffing fee.
Headhunter Writer never tires.
He always has a new success story to craft that inspires.
You need a Headhunter Writer on your side.
With him you can’t lose, because he’s got Do It All Dad Year pride on his side.
Your Favorite Headhunter Writer,
Joshua Kornbluth
A candidate recently emailed me, “I’ve never had such a fun conversation about work.”
And this was through LinkedIn Recruiter, which isn’t synonymous with fun.
The LL Bean Catalog is fun.
Buying Houses of The Holy on Vinyl at Newbury Comics on a Friday afternoon after work at the Westchester Mall for only 30 bucks, it’s a steal trust me, is fun.
Your son admitting in the bubble that Led Zeppelin is his new favorite band over Motley Crue at 5 years old is fun.
Son says, “Daddy, Shout At That Devil was my favorite, but my new favorite is the one with the naked mermaids on the cover.”
Helping your daughter overcome her sleeping issues at 11 years old is fun.
“Matilda, I’ve got the perfect solution for your sleeping troubles. Have you ever heard of a channel called the BBC? Ted Talks might get the job done too.”
Later my daughter says, “Daddy, I saw one of the Ted Talks. Did you know that more people die from falling asleep at the wheel than from drunk driving”?
I say, “But Vince Mcmahon who only averages 3 hours a night for the past 4 decades and counting doesn’t care. Because he can afford to take the company limo instead.”
Presenting my daughter, a Squish-Mallow that resembles a sleeping Unicorn pig from Newbury Comics is fun.
I say, “This is only the sleep aid you need Matilda, but nice try Ted tries.”
Tonight, I spoke with a candidate about his interest in competitive weightlifting.
He laughed when I said, “Ok, so you’re not oiling yourself down at work.”
My youngest son asked his older brother, Arthur, “Who’s your favorite YouTuber?”
I felt a combination of cringy embarrassment and sucks to be you pity for his generation. But he’s only 5.
Plus, he’s way funnier than I’ll ever be.
Also, despite my assertions of every YouTuber sounding like a spurned intern for Reddit.
They’re still stimulating my son’s imagination, and making him laugh, which is more than Saved By The Bell ever did for my Gen X Generation.
Your Favorite YouTuber Personality is like your favorite Recruiter.
Neither take themselves too seriously.
Plus, they entertain, enlighten, and sell with fun filled relish.
I don’t know any of these Youtuber Personalities by name.
I’d like to think I’m still cooler than my kids.
Maya Angelou says, “People will always remember the way you make them feel.”
So, service fun I say.
I’d rather be remembered that way.
Servicing boring has a time and place.
But even accountants laugh.
I make them laugh all the time in my office.
I rest my case.
Ted tries.
But flashing subtitles on LinkedIn don’t make you laugh or rattle your insides.
Service fun over boring.
Be gratefully different.
Be overwhelmingly fun.
Like Jim Morrison on Morrison Hotel amongst the scattered sun.
Servicing fun is money honey.
I’m a knockout artist like Gene Tunney.
I swear your honor.
My next swing is a goner.
Just stop telling me how Brian Cranston is must-see TV Boomer.
Your cred is shot.
I’d rather jerk off to Laura Loomer.
Michael Kornbluth
Shabbat Shalom Ramble Sunday Special set list for 1/22/23.
Hopelessly Boosting
Aggression Pays
Not Working LinkedIn
I hate the #OPENTOWORK hashtag badge on LinkedIn.
It feels like white-collar panhandling.
It’s the worst networking innovation since Meetups for out-of-work Cup Scout leaders.
And who chose that puke moss green color?
It’s not an inviting sea foam green or handsome conjuring IVY.
It looks like some target sign that appears in Predator’s headset.
Plus, the dark olive-green badge drains your profile pic of all-electric edge.
Slap that #OPENTOWORK badge on Gweneth Paltrow’s pic and still evokes stained Avocado pits.
Mug shots offer more color contrast.
It looks like a sign you wear around your head in Game of Thrones while having apple pits thrown at your head. Shame on you, LinkedIn, shame.
Badges should scream earned respectability like one on a racehorse for winning the Derby.
Does the #OPENTOWORK badge feel like a prominent brand plug to you?
For me, it screams, please wait to swipe past my profile.
Good recruiters don’t need permission to make the 1st move on candidates. They’re not sweating the prospect of being charged with unwanted aggression through LinkedIn Recruiter.
Also, if the candidate is out of work due to recent layoffs in the tech space, isn’t the #OPENTOWORK badge option rubbing it in?
If my future wife wore an #OPENTONEWLOVE badge on her shirt when I approached her on Barry Diller’s balcony, it would’ve stripped the moment of all spontaneous charged lift.
“Hi, I’m Joshua; I work for CitySearch. I couldn’t help but notice your #OPENTONEWLOVE badge on your shirt. In other words, yes to flirty.”
Yes, to flirty, Challah. Thank you very much.
Your Favorite Headhunter Writer,
Joshua Kornbluth
It’s your fault if you don’t make Hanukkah more festive than Christmas. I get it. Most likely Jesus himself who celebrated Hanukkah with his apostles, even invented Christmas to make the holiday season feel more festive. When the strongest drink offered was Manischewitz before eggnog was invented. Spinning Beastie Boys records while blaring Intergalactic planetary to honor the Aliens in helping his fellow Hebrews build the Great Pyramids wasn’t a thing yet. Can’t all the Jews, Muslims and Christians unite on the 1st night of Hanukkah on the premise behind Home Depot never being erected in the Israelites’ honor? Growing up, I’d push my dad to honor my mom’s Christian side after she converted. I say, “Dad, mom dumped Jesus to marry into your putzy DNA. The least you can do is let mom throw up a tree. Dad says, “The only time a Jew from the Bronx would get a Christmas Tree is if he planned to convert it into a tricked-out Treehouse and flip it for a profit.”
Finally, one year, my year my dad budges and allows my mom this pathetic, sorry excuse for a bonsai tree relegated to the side patio covered in cobwebs that got less touches than a St. James Bible at a bath house colony in Pronvincetown. But seriously, can’t you see Jesus recognizing the festive limitations of Hannukah after receiving one carved dreidel too many? Jesus says, “Thanks for the Dreidel, Judas. I’m glad that my carpentry session on dreidel building 101 at The 92 Street Y paid off so handsomely. But why don’t we make Channukah a more drawn-out celebration that’s ten times festive by celebrating my birthday for the entire month of December after Hannukah.”
Matthew says, “Yeah, but Jesus wouldn’t Hannukah then be considered a forgettable warm act, that gives you ball balls just thinking about it. You were born my immaculate conception, right? Yet by the time your 4 brothers James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon were born, the magic was gone baby, baby gone.”
Jesus replies, “Yeah, but I had a vision in desert last night about a future comedian named Billy Crystal bemoaning in his autobiography, Baby Boomer Arrogance Never Dies, about how Jews bend over backwards to adopt Christmas traditions, so they don’t feel so old world clingy Jewy. Nobody cares anymore about the rocking band of Maccabees reclaiming the Great Temple of Solomon because they’re not the polytheistic whores like the rest. Taylor Swift is the number recording artists in the future, and she grew up on a Christmas Tree farm for Christ’s sake.” Hillary Hammer Time Cankles strikes again, Challah. Thank you very much.
Matthew asks, “What’s a Christmas Tree Jesus? “Jesus says, “A camouflaged cross, but it’s going to be tricked out in lights that run on electricity, which will outshine any burn a mile of minute candles on a Menorah. Any Jewish record executive would jam a pinecone up their ass if they promised Taylor Swift more inclusiveness gayness spirit to be produced on her next Christmas album.
Now, I used to get very tense about the mention of Jesus, but not anymore, since my invention of a new tradition, Jesus Fridays, which allows me to break my Koshertarian diet of the past 2 years and counting. Understand, I’ve been following the Koshertarian Diet for 2 years now. Finally, I’ve allowed myself the inclusion of shellfish for a special occasion because who cares about eating soulless shellfish? Plus, Jesus, the original super Jew rocked the Pescatarian diet. So, if it’s good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me. I also like the idea of acting less like an all-knowing exalted prick. And celebrating Jesus Fridays inspires me to connect with my fellow Gentile like a retired fireman who runs the best deli in Westchester in North White Plains. Outside my new office, after just resurrecting my IT Headhunter Writer career. Where I’m getting paid to creatively sell job opportunities for Software Engineers, digital designers, and Information Technology workers in general, whose job prospects have more legs than Lieutenant Dan. I like Jesus Fridays because it divorces me from perpetuating any messianic complex of my own, which screams, the original version of the Bible is better than second part that I’ve barely dabbled in for the most part. And I’m tired of being that old timer Gen X guy that just bemoans new age Simpsons episodes as woke filler compared to season 1 through 7 without even dabbling in the newer versions to make any ultra judgy informed decisions of my own. Like when I saw Juno, ages ago and got angry about how everyone was hailing the hardcore hilarity of it, when I saw Juno as nothing more than a poor girls’ Jeanne Garafalo. I wrote a blog about the movie being overhyped, yet I told myself afterwards, don’t be a critic, hack breath like the rest. It’s way better to originate, then merely pontificate. So, I wrote mini porn parody that I turned into my 1st screenplay, Juno Does Williamsburg, later named Brooklyn Blogger. Edgeless titles suck pinecone dick, Challah. Thank you very much.
At the same time, I’ve worn Jewish pride on my sleave for the past 5 years and change as host of the Do It All Dad Year Podcast, responsible for banging out comedy records such as Big Mouth Moses, Koshertarian Offensive, and the Pig-Headed Jew, Challah. Thank you very much. I’ve also written and published The Great American Jew Novel, which Diane Sullivan from the Midwest Book Review described as a “Hilarious exploration of New York Comedy and Culture.” Which proves that my material wasn’t too overtly Jewy pushy annoying for the Heartland’s tastes. And for the past 2 months, I’ve renamed my Do It All Dad Year Podcast, the Shabat Shalom Ramble, in honor of my dad accusing me of never being on point, despite him proclaiming 5 years ago before I launched my podcast, how nobody cares about my political opinions anyway, 45 thousand page views on my Do It All Dad Year blog later.
Well, I haven’t read the news since Dominion Machines won. And I don’t see Kari Lake recruiting Linda Hamilton as her VP to take down the new Sky Net For good. Plus, how much more can we stomach talk of Alex Jones being bad Santa versus John Fetterman being a burnt out offering of the Democratic party who looks like the Good Will Grinch who showers in Bong Water. So, more than ever 3 million Jews in the US, according to Alexa, which is most likely an inflated claim, like Antifa still being nothing more than an idea in Patton Oswalt graphic novels, about a gang of wannabe Punisher vigilantes, in hoodies, could use some miraculous ways to modernize Hannukah and make it more festive than Christmas than Google ever would. Because I want other Jewish American Dads to derive extended Nachas from pronounced Jewish pride from their offspring when they proclaim to Daddy how they get butterflies in their stomach every day before each night of Hanukah begins, which was the opposite of my experience growing up. Getting a Pinball Machine one tear one year for Hannukah was unbelievable, despite being woken up every night prior to Hannukah because dad couldn’t resist the urge to play with it himself and break it in personally. Which made my younger brother and I believe that Aliens from Space Invaders were raining Gama Rays on top of our house eight nights prior to Hannukah because my dad was making his best Hannukah gift all about his own self-enrichment over ours. Still, my dad was raised an only child, so you can’t blame him for occupying his inner loneliness in his forties the week before Hanukah, because playing Dreidel by himself, gets played out faster than trying jerk off with your left in honor of shortest-lived New Year’s resolution yet. Which only leads to more played out blue ball’s devastation. So, here’s 8 ways to start making Hannukah more festive than Christmas. There are 14 million Jews worldwide. So, if this post goes viral, my Hannukah wish of 8 million butterflies can come true. And you can’t knock the miracle of mitzvah moves, Challah. Thank you very much.
Michael Kornbluth
Michael Kornbluth
What’s my lopsided love remedy?
Text my brother on his birthday with this.
Happy Birthday bro, despite you not acknowledging my birthday since I came out as a Stay At Home Shemale Comedian outside of texting happy birthday bro once in 7 years.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, don’t do heroin on your birthday.
And get Hanukkah gifts for all 3 of my kids if you want to rekindle any semblance of a relationship with them ever again.
You’re getting the entire inheritance anyway, once you share this text with mom soon after.
And when you give thanks for Thanksgiving with mom and dad in Arizona without me, my wife or 3 kids, thank your demons for convincing mom and dad that your ex-wife was the driving force behind your decision to add heroin to your resume into your early forties as if doing blow for 4 decades straight, after only hearing last call from the bathroom stall wasn’t enough.
I don’t care about being the sloppy second son anymore.
I don’t care about mom and dad betting against my capacity to achieve full blown independence again.
I don’t care about you being a sketchy, sniveling, drug addict bitch who can’t even muster the class to wish me good luck at my new job on Monday, which is the 1st full time opportunity I’ve had to feed my family in 7 years.
I don’t care about your life always being deemed more important in mom and dad’s eyes because of your innermost need to feel special, compared to the other mere spoiled, dumb son over here.
I don’t care about your opinions on anything, including mom and dad’s judgement of my talents, direction or beliefs anymore.
I don’t care that mom and dad would do dick for me if I wanted to get divorced.
I don’t care that mom and dad don’t treat you like the regrettable dumb fuck one.
I don’t care that you talk shit behind my back in the service of preserving your drug money from mom and dad.
I don’t care that dad gets an extra glint in his eyes when trying to upsell your endless fuckitude again.
I don’t care that mom made Yom Kippur all about whether I’d help you move.
I don’t care that mom wasn’t feeling the need to wish me a happy Jewish New Year in return because she was all over your morose dick again.
I don’t care about how you’re the sorry excuse for why and mom and dad, never spend more than a week or 2 back here every summer to see the kids.
I don’t care that your legal fees and divorce lawyer fees are the reason they reneged on taking the kids to California for Spring Break allegedly.
I don’t care about you not being a conspiracy theorist.
I don’t care about you playing the forced intermediary on mom and dad’s behalf anymore, whenever they want to meddle in my life again.
I don’t care about mom breaking into cankers sores on your behalf anymore.
I don’t care about mom only focusing on the center of your existence whenever she visits back east to see the grandkids allegedly.
I don’t care about lopsided love anymore because God put me on this earth to ensure I don’t make the same mistake with my 3 Pescatarian Comedian friends, that being my children, Matilda, Arthur, and Samuel.
That’s right, like mom and dad you refuse to acknowledge the fruits of my labor, in this case being my book The Koshertarian Comedians, which will sell huge, mark my words, no thanks to any emotive encouragement from you, mom and dad, that’s for damn sure. The follow up sequel hit book will be the Pescatarian Comedians, forget about it.
I don’t care about trying to impress you, making you laugh, or making you feel special anymore, because you’re just going to focus on you and not my kids.
Mom says, you’re making money now. I say, “Take the boys out to a baseball game.” And all I get is more bullshit promises in return.
I don’t care that you, mom and dad are A plus narcissists times infinity compared to me anymore.
I don’t care that lying, deceiving, downplaying, and minimizing has become second nature to you all.
I don’t care because I’m the star parenting genius and your enablers aren’t.
I don’t care because come Monday at my new job, will mark the greatest recruiter winning streak of all time.
I don’t care because I’m taking my family to fucking Jamaica man for Spring Break and you’re not, because you don’t have a family, but I do despite mom yearning for versions of you the most inside.
I don’t care because all of my kid’s teachers want to clone future versions of them.
I don’t care because I’ve got 3 masterful books to self-publish or sell.
I don’t care because I get to work for an older Jewish woman with style, class and a sense of humor now, who’s a loving, local, involved Grandma no less.
I don’t care because I’ve got 136 comedy records to convert into 99 cent E books for sales while having my genius artist son design all the covers after his 3rd grade teacher last night described him as the best art student she’s ever had. Especially, after she laughed long time when I said. That’s why, I call him Millionaire By 10 for a reason, Challah. Thank you very much.
I don’t care about lopsided love from mom and dad anymore because I’ve endless sheets of comedy gold, endless a plus, laugh yanker nicknames for my 3-fuss free, pitch perfect children and Dad doesn’t it, Waste Of Height, because it’s a term of affection but a great title lead for my all-star collection of funny man flash fiction stories, Waste Of Height, Really Short Stories. I like getting milage about my dad’s endless assholishness on my behalf.
I don’t care because I’ve got one more final comedy record special to record from home on Sundy called Spoiled Dumb Son before I start cashing checks 20K commission checks on the regular while you’re hooked up to a weed pen on a forklift.
I don’t care because my Shabbat Shalom Ramble is going to kick into extra fucking high rollicking gear tonight.
I don’t care because before my birthday in April, I’ll have a screenplay Gum King Of New York to blow Tarantino away with.
I don’t care about your hurt feelings of dejection in the face of my towering genius anymore because now I live for watching hacks cry.
I don’t care about lop sided love because this is the winter, I don’t drink a drop of alcoholic, even hard fucking Kombucha, so I can finally achieve Do It All Dad Dunking out glory on my lucky 47th to make Dragon’s Lung’s year finish on fire.
I don’t care about lopsided love anymore because it only illuminates what beautifying magic the opposite can be.
Like Ayn Rand said, “New love is always waiting around the corner. And I plan on being its biggest spreader as I become the Relo King Recruiter of North White Plains as I scurry to score jobs and monster commission rips for any remaining in demand tech talent who hasn’t gotten the fuck out of New York, yet. As Jimi sang on Jimi Hendrix Blues, “I hear my train coming, and pretty soon I’m going to buy this town and put it all in my shoes. That’s what I’m going to do.” Jimmy lives, Challah. I might even pretend to give a shit about my freedom buying success that will allow me to kill on stage eventually down the line too.
Lopsided Love woes in my bruised heart are the off the fucking list, starting now, forevermore.
Thank you, sweet Lord, for my lopsided love remedy blog post very, very much.
Michael Kornbluth
Why do kids today want puberty blockers again?
Growing up, puberty couldn’t come soon enough.
Especially when younger brother of 3 years hits puberty before you do, in addition to banging the 3 hottest girls in his class. That I tried to jerk off to at the time but couldn’t. One year for Hanukkah I get a book from my mother called the 12 Stages Of Puberty. I freak out immediately.
“Mom,why would you present me this book in front of my younger brother? Jonathan can play with himself whenever he wants?”
Mom says, “But you do that all the time upstairs with your GI-Joe figures.”
If I caught my son playing with his big sister’s Barbie Dolls, I’d think banging my GI Joe figure way past the acceptable age was incredibly gayer, especially while I had Gung Ho manhandle Cobra Commander like his gimpy bitch in Pulp Fiction.
“Welcome to my Terror Dome dick, Major Blood.”
“It’s Cobra Commander.”
“You wish bitch, bottoms away. Yoh Joe! Hasbro lives up your gaping anus hole.”
Challah. Thank you very much.
Michael Kornbluth