I'm performing a recruiting search, and wanted to see if anyone knew the Seattle recruiting market well. Specifically, I have a client that wants to hire a recruiter, and I need to ask some candid questions about the client.

Anyone open to having their brain picked?

Cross-posted at StlRecruiting.com



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I'm going to change the way you recruit, in less than 5 minutes a day.



My new webinar on August 12th is about Recruiting 2.0 Tools. We're going to surf the world-wide web and repurpose social media tools to use in recruiting. Calendars, video slideshows, click-to-call sites, and microblogging are all on the menu. This will be like nothing the recruiting world has ever imagined.



Sign up for 1:30 EST, August 12th at Hireability.



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