<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Bill Woodcock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woody@pch.net" target="_blank">woody@pch.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
On Nov 19, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Adam Nelson <<a href="mailto:adam@varud.com">adam@varud.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I presume there will be involvement of one or more recruitment professionals?<br>
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</span>Speaking from my own experience on the ARIN board when we had a similar transition to make, I’d say that “recruitment professionals” are an unmitigated disaster. They’ll find you a set of generic and mediocre candidates, none particularly prepared for the task. After two false starts using “recruitment professionals” we gave up on them and hired someone we knew was capable of handling the job, and who wouldn’t flake out. And that’s worked out really well for us.<br>
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-Bill<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I totally agree and have never actually seen outsourced recruitment professionals do a better job than what an engaged and thoughtful organization can do internally. Not only do they typically fail miserably but they waste alot of precious time. I still presume they will be involved though and would like to know more about the groups ahead of time so the community can meaningfully help.</div><div><br></div><div>-Adam</div></div><br></div></div>