Why Social Networking Won’t Replace Good Search Consultants

I met a prospective client last week to discuss a search they need to fill for an important position. In the course of discussing the job and what they had done to fill it, the CEO told me that he had posted the listing on a social networking site and received over 800 responses! He went on to tell me that he had to hire two contract recruiters to go through the responses and they still weren’t sure if they had any candidates, which is why he called me. On the ride home I got to thinking about what has happened in the last 20 years...

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