You probably have read this on Slashdot: How To Get Hired As An Open-Source Developer. Having read through a stack of resumes recently, I can tell you, I'd much rather find or be sent a good resume than sift through 10s of mediocre ones from employment agencies.
"Much of recruiting is just grunt reading through stacks of resumes. That's why good recruiters will often search online for passive candidates [a passive candidate is someone who's not applying for a position but their resume is on their home page or some other community site].
My passive recruiting [searching online for passive candidates and contacting them] lets us target exactly the skills we're looking for and thus find people who can do exactly what we want. And even when they're not interested in the position, they often know someone who is. Passive searching can sometimes be much more fruitful than reading through stacks of resumes especially when trying to find specialized, hard to find, skills."
Posted by stuartcw at December 3, 2002 11:43 AM