ATLANTA, GA - Guess who made Business Week's list of The World's Most Influential Headhunters? Hint: Not me! Would you believe that not one of them maintains a weblog? Worse, not a single one of them is registered on RecruitingBlogs.com. 'Sup with that?
They're a pretty secular bunch too, judging from their responses to BW's question "Who's your favorite historical figure?" Percentage-wise, most said Winston Churchill. Not that there's anything wrong with that ...
My personal congratulations to Ulrich F. Ackermann, Ignacio Bao, Sylvain Dhenin, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, Richard Fudickar, Sakie Fukushima, Bjørn Johansson, Pasi Koivusaari, Louisa Wong-Rousseau, Carmen Suarez de Padilla, Judith M. von Seldeneck, Kathryn Yap, Didier Vuchot, and Diane Segalen. You've earned it! I look forward to seeing each of you at the banquet.
PS - Just kidding! This last bit has been added purely for the benefit of Google.
UPDATE 1: Within ONE HOUR of posting this, I am up to #4 on Google for the term Pasi Koivusaari. How cool is that? Hey Durbin and Jason! Can't a brother get a backlink for the phrase Pasi Koivusaari? I repeat: Pasi Koivusaari. No? How about Bjørn Johansson?
UPDATE 2: Recruiting Animal rushes in to defend Pasi Koivusaari and Winston Churchill. International community in uproar. Developing ...
Did Someone say Pasi Koivusaari?
Posted by: Jim Durbin | 2008.02.13 at 10:50
i hear a *scraping* sound over at spamdoza's camp
HRMMMMM
<3
Jer
Posted by: Jeremy Langhans | 2008.02.08 at 15:22
Top-level executive recruiters and their teams leverage the internet in many ways, namely for research. The professionals featured in BusinessWeek's article are flying around the country and the world at any given moment. I am not surprised that they don't have time to blog!
Posted by: Searcher | 2008.02.05 at 10:04
Perhaps they should re-do the article and focus on the best internet savvy recruiters. Me thinks they are missing the boat.
Posted by: Chris Russell | 2008.02.04 at 19:12
It is no surprise that they have not leveraged the Internet.
I work with quite a few headhunters, and I find their marketing skills are less than stellar.
Your knowledge of the Internet represents a unique skill that many small business owners (and headhunters) should envy.
Posted by: Ted Grigg | 2008.02.04 at 18:52