It's no secret, the amount of information on the Internet is its greatest strength and weakness. It's wonderful to have such resources at your disposal, but it can be difficult to provide or locate key information when it's needed at a particular time.

With its short message and limited ability to hold one's attention span Twitter has difficulty providing a effective level of persistence. There is no doubt it will play a role in the world of social networking and hiring, but a major shortcoming is the lack of information being conveyed and staying presence.

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It's funny to hear talk about recruiters being replaced by online social networking systems in the next few years. It reminds me of the late-1990's when people thought that accountants would become replaceable with the advent of TurboTax & other tax software packages. Now we know; as long as tax law continues to be complex, there will be a need for good accountants to interpret and apply that information on our tax returns.

But let's back up to the reason recruiters are brought on board in the first place. In many cases, they are more effective at locating ...

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