The Art of Recruiting, Part II

I received an email from Craig James that contained superb insights into the art of recruiting. With Craig’s permission, I provide it below.

As the chief technology officer of eMolecules, Craig is responsible for the design and development of the http://www.chmoogle.com chemistry search engine. Craig worked with chemistry, chemists and chemical databases his entire career, including management of a low-cost (<$50K) mass spectrometer project while at HP Scientific Instruments (now Agilent) and as director of core engineering for Accelrys. He can be reached at [email protected].I had the pleasure of being on the recruiting team at Hewlett Packard that had the highest success rate in the company, measured by the retention rate and the eventual performance of the people we hired. Our team leader taught me something that you don't mention at all in your chapter on recruiting.Full Story: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/03/the_art_of_recr.html***The Art of Recruiting by Guy Kawasaki http://www.matr.net/article-17920.html