I recently had a situation in my day job where more work than we could handle. I needed a qualified group of five internet developers with varied skill sets such as: XHTML/CSS, Flash, .NET, PHP and we needed them quickly.
Formally we would try two things:
- Mine existing freelance resources
- Go to a local staffing firm that specializes in interactive to find the desired candidate(s)
We tried option one, and everyone we knew was committed. Option two takes time and we were under the gun with tight deadlines.
So what do you where you in a bind and need to recruit in a vacuum? Networking 2.0 utilizing your social networks!
Within a few hours of identifying the need I hit my LinkedIn network. By the end of the day I had answers and people lined up to do the work. It was instant validation to me of the power of social networking tools like LinkedIn, and putting my network that i'd built overtime to work for me.
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