[ale] SSN and jobs-list

[JD]

Specific skills are only 25% of a job, IMHO.

Soft-skills and how the applicant "fits" into the team matter much more than any
specific skill ... unless the company wants a one-trick-pony.  Hiring a smart
person, willing to learn and fit into multiple needs, is really what companies
should be seeking.

It is very hard to screen for these things.

On 06/06/2013 08:41 PM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> I've often said there's money to be HAD by doing the recruiting thing "right".
>  Of course, you'd need to get the word out, but imagine this...
> 
> You get some architecture level folks on your staff...  A Sr. Systems person for
> the *nixes and one for the winders.  A DBA with a good broad swatch of dbs, a
> dev who's got a wide array of things... you get the picture.  I mean, you'd have
> to spend quite a year to staff, but everyone you represent would have to pass
> your "experts".  Maybe even for startup you could use folks like that on a
> retainer basis, eventually bringing them full time eventually.  
> 
> 
> The candidates could be assured they wouldn't have a google monkey playing
> "search and destroy" with a keyword from your resume from over a decade ago that
> you only worked on for one project and now it's the thing that'll get them paid.
> 
> The clients would be assured that a highly technical recruiting staff would put
> the candidates through a gauntlet of evaluation they MUST pass to be submitted
> to the client.  Those experts would ensure they weren't wasting anyone's time in
> whom gets submitted.  Either you've got the goods or you don't.  
> 
> Finally, the recruiting firm itself wouldn't work on some multiplier of the
> hired person's salary or some arbitrary headhunting fee, but would be a flat
> rate per head based on the quality of the eval/selection.  The firm could charge
> more because the quality of the selections would be so much higher.
> 
> 
> Obviously there's a metric crap-ton of details surrounding that to be worked
> out, but I bet it could work.  
> 
> 
> --j
>