Even as unemployment spiked at the end of 2008, the monthly NFIB survey of small business owners from December found that 75 percent of those trying to hire reported few or no qualified applicants for the job openings they were trying to fill.
Can't afford the cost of a head-hunter firm? Tired of failed and costly searches for the right person to fill a post?
Maybe it is time to join the entrepreneurs using Web 2.0 to bootstrap the recruiting process. From US News:
While searching Twitter for comments about his clients, San Francisco PR entrepreneur Jason Throckmorton noticed a post from a University of Oregon undergraduate. Searching further, he found a blog from the same student discussing how the PR industry was evolving. "We said, 'This is the kind of person we're interested in,'" says Throckmorton, 34. The co-founder of $5 million LaunchSquad contacted the student, invited her to visit and wound up adding her to his staff of 35.
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