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So I actually thought that “good” companies like Microsoft don’t use job boards. Bah!

I thought that since so many knowledgeable recruiters always speak of the best candidates being passive candidates that recruiters from top companies would not use job boards. How naive!

Well, now that my little misconception has been resolved and I know that top companies do recruit off the job boards, I will continue my crusade against recruiters who maintain that passive candidates are better then active candidates.

I was out with a couple of friends a week ago and my embedded engineer buddy happened to put his foot in his mouth in a nasty way. My other friend is a Linux Architect, probably one of the better Linux guys in the NE, happened to have posted his resume on Dice. I found him and placed him into a top game development company. So my embedded friend says to us:

“Why would anyone use you? Don’t only the guys who can’t find anything use recruiters?”

I prevented a brawl, but his comment struck me especially hard because his view is not only arrogant and ignorant, but unfortunately held by too many recruiters who tout the superiority of passive candidates.

I love the recruiters with 20 years in the industry heralding the passive candidate banner. I love those companies that specifically ask for recruiters not to use job boards.

Please continue to neglect Web 2.0… while I make $$$.

We have a client in Boston that was looking for a Data Analyst for over 6 months. None of the vendors they were using could find this elusive analyst. It took me an hour on Monster to find a candidate that will most likely get the job. I have no complaints about job boards or “active candidates”.  The candidates was for a perm job too…

 Happy Hunting!

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