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Jul 2007

You Get What You Ask For

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Nothing screams “easy money” like headhunting. Twenty-five to thirty percent of your recruit’s first annual salary? Twenty dollars off the top of each hour worked by your contractor? With that kind of bling, who wouldn’tsign up as a headhunter?

Of course, recruiting good people is no trivial task (that’s probably why it costs so damn much), but that certainly doesn’t stop a whole lot of wannabes from trying. Like the fine folks behind this email that Chris M recently received …