Dumb whitepaper

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I came across this whitepaper from Hudson about the hot “new” frontier of recruiting – social networking.

# l, S( c. ]3 M4 j. |$ b3 P9 rAside from misspelling "Ryze" in the paper, the author writes:
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, `. l- S8 y: D) W3 e: zXXXXX XXXXXXXX, manager of sourcing strategies at XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX, has investigated LinkedIn, Spoke and the Electronic Recruiting Exchange, a Web site for recruiters interested in electronic recruiting techniques. However, he said Sprint has not gotten to the point of using them as a recruiting tool. “The folks I speak to think that there is some promise to it. Everybody’s not quite sure how to use it yet,” he said.
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0 u" A( N; J% ]- RHe’s technically correct about our social network on ERE.net.  It is probably really frustrating to use as a recruiting tool.
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I experience similar frustration every time I try eating my soup with a fork.
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Anyone who has taken even a cursory glance at our web site (which has not been called Electronic Recruiting Exchange for nearly a year) understands that it was not created in order to be a recruiting tool.  It was created to be an informational and networking aid for recruiters to connect with one another, and it is extremely successful at doing so (we have stats on how many emails are sent over the network that prove it).
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- _4 b: p8 u6 L1 M; e9 \1 ?0 T5 ZComparing the effectiveness of our network with that of LinkedIn and Spoke is not comparing apples with oranges, its comparing apples with asteroids.  They are both round, but that is where the similarity ends.