[dennisgorelik]

> One got just as good of results from random selection as from HR-based, profile-based, direct-effort candidate searches.

Do you mean that if you search job board for e.g. "java sql" you would get about the same type of candidates that you can get by stopping people on the street?

[moron4hire]

Yes, both for being surprised with how much a random person could do, and for how little a so-called "qualified" candidate could.