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Before we discuss the details of how to build a recruiting strategy, we need to dismantle the destructive thinking that surrounds technical recruiting today. This chapter details six specific misconceptions about recruiting and proposes some alternate ways of thinking.
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Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 2nd Edition. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995: p. 30.
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Nicholas Carlson, Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! Twelve, 2015: p. 262.
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For further reading on the nascent telepresence robotics industry, I recommend Parmy Olson’s overview, “Rise Of The Telepresence Robots,” in the July 15, 2013 issue of Forbes magazine.
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Tyler, J. (2015). Six Destructive Myths About Technical Recruiting. In: Building Great Software Engineering Teams. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1133-5_3
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