The last source of candidates that we, and most organizations, have used is job boards. These are websites where for a fee an employer can post a job and then receive a flood of applicants. Popular examples are Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, and Indeed. The Google experience has been that job boards generate many, many applicants and vanishingly few actual hires. Our hypothesis is that, since Google is fairly well known today, a more motivated candidate will show the modest initiative required to actually go to Google Careers and apply directly. A less motivated candidate will apply to lots of
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