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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Thu, 24 Jul 2003
How to hire the "A-Team"
The hardest part about hiring is getting the right people to apply. Posting job openings is a mass media approach which achieves mass media results. The conventional wisdom on hiring is that contacts acquired via personal connections are of much higher quality. One way to view the blogosphere is that it is a publicly visible portion of a person's network. Find a sharp person, then follow the links, trackbacks and comments to find out who they know. It's not foolproof, but it's way better than getting mailbombed with resumes.
I think that
Martin Roell's post on this is right as far as the usefulness of blogs, but wrong about a "Blog-Headhunting Agency". Once people figure this out, everyone will do it. The biggest problem is probably that there aren't enough people out in the blogosphere yet.
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hi ted! been a long time...
another emerging way to see webs of acquaintances, albeit less effective, is through www.friendster.com the service is most popular with the dating crowd, but i have non-dating friends with up to 200 friendsters, giving them email access to 10K. their profiles often mention their profession.
Posted by enoch at Fri Jul 25 21:05:48 2003
another emerging way to see webs of acquaintances, albeit less effective, is through www.friendster.com the service is most popular with the dating crowd, but i have non-dating friends with up to 200 friendsters, giving them email access to 10K. their profiles often mention their profession.
Posted by enoch at Fri Jul 25 21:05:48 2003
Hi Enoch,
Glad you found us. The world is small. The issue with friendster isn't the breadth of the network, it's the ability to judge quality. Having access to someone's blog helps, although it's true that I could be a dog...
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jul 25 21:32:08 2003
Glad you found us. The world is small. The issue with friendster isn't the breadth of the network, it's the ability to judge quality. Having access to someone's blog helps, although it's true that I could be a dog...
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jul 25 21:32:08 2003
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