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 ...