Your Experiences with Recruiters?

companyAdvocate asks "I work in a small, high end IT consultancy. We are currently on a large recruitment drive and our targets are very ambitious. We are looking into alternative, original and cost-effective ways of hiring talented people. Google's billboard ad comes to mind. As we are a consultancy, we need good communicators as well as techies and raising the company profile may be an added bonus. What is the Slashdot community's experience with alternative recruitment methods? Were you hired in an exciting or interesting way? How do you make even rejected candidates leave with a positive impression?"

I have an idea

[mfh]

You have the right idea tapping into this site as a resource pool, but perhaps you should look for talent here as well? Give everyone a job who scores 5/5 on this Slashdot thread. Start with me [mailto], and work your way down the list. I will provide a resume and credentials upon request.

How do you make even rejected candidates...

[YaRness]

How do you make even rejected candidates leave with a positive impression?

Two weeks pay would be nice.

Re:Beware of this

[AndroidCat]

Well, then they probably won't notice when you bury a ton of stuff as hidden text in the Word document that will trip their keyword search software no matter what they're looking for.

Re:Look at on-line forums, Usenet, and so on?

[Anonymous Coward]

...who refers to himself as Linux God, in reality he a communist nutjob...

You must be new here. Those are the same exact things.

Re:"Alternative"? To what?

[mikaelhg]

Know any good developer pickup lines?

Is your resume padded, or are you just happy to see me?

Re:Do not use Word

[maw]

Why do you think Unix sysadmins are good computer science people?

Re:Look at on-line forums, Usenet, and so on?

[networkBoy]

Why did you not bold "too safe they're"?
Just curious...
-nB

Re:Beware of this

[Jesrad]

Kinda reminds me of the saying "Throw half of the resumes in the bin - that way you avoid employing unlucky people."