Joe Ganley writes "You are a data processing superstar, and you are looking for work. I diagnose this happens approximately rarely, which is part of my problem. But stipulating that it happens, how do I, as a company looking to hire such people, connect with them? Put another way, how do you the artificial intelligence languages mogul go about looking for a company that seems like one you'd like to work for? The company I work for is a great place to work; we only hire really great people, we work on hard, interesting problems, and we treat our employees well. We aren't worried about retention or even about how to entice people to work here once we've found them. The problem is simply finding them. The signal-to-noise ratio of the big places like Monster and Dice is terrible. We've had much better luck with (for example) the Joel on executive job boards, but that still doesn't generate enough volume." What methods have other people used to find the truly elite?

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