Recruiters can provide you a group of _average_ engineers, and do not protect you from a heap of junk. If you need a 100 new persons for your call center - it's a good way. If you are looking for _Windows administrator, 100 desktops all Win2K or WinXP, anti-virus, 2 domains - it is good method too. If you are designing new software, using new protocol and have 10 patents - use other methods. Vadim is right, such lists (as nanog) can be much more effective in finding _highly skilled_ engineers. Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fisher, Shawn" <SFisher@Bresnan.com> To: "Nanog List (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:16 PM Subject: This may be stupid but..
If this question is inappropriate for this list I apoligize in advance.
I have several open engineering positions that I am trying to fill without the use of a recruiter. My thoughts on using a recruiter is they end up extracting a fee from the employer that would be better put to the future employee.
My question, what is the most effective way to recruit quality engineers? Does anyone have experience or opinions to share?
TIA,
Shawn