An old cowboy proverb asserts that "Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."

Recruiting is the most difficult function within HR yet too many seem to be taking low-work shortcuts - like asking for assistance in finding "engineers" after exhausting all their "creativity"...perusing resumes off job boards. Ahem???

Because of this, I offer the second tenet of the Poupon Principle:

Hard work are two four-letter words (come to think of it, GenY is also a four letter word)

[for the quesy GenYers who are sick of being called prima donna whine babies, this isn't what I'm referring to - I just wanted an emotional uptick from the people who actually read my stuff. Laziness is not confined to any one group but there sure are a bunch of recruiters who are afraid to work hard enough to break through a critical barrier]

Why so afraid of the hard work?

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