Where have the stars been?
Recruiting.com has a long article by Shally & Robbie McIntosh of Microsoft. It has two parts.
1. What is Peer Regression Analysis.
2. How to build a candidate pipeline.
Here's a short take on PRA
1. Pick someone you'd like to hire
(even if you think you'll never get her).
2. Find out where she's working now -- and where she's been.
Those are probably good sources for people like her.
3. Research Tools: search engines, online databases, social networking sites
Example
Sometimes you'll find a professor and, like, ten students in her class became very influential in their industry. She's gotta be a good source.
Warning
PRA is time consuming and there are no guaranteed results. A lot like life.
Now You Try
Here's Shally's resume. According to the theory, it should help you track down people like him.
Join Shally's mailing list. (click on the red splotch in the middle of this page).
