Recruiters say job boards like LinkedIn are dead. Here’s how to hire instead

The best recruiter I know is going to spend the next three months hiring without posting to a single job board website, like Indeed or LinkedIn.

“LinkedIn?” She laughed. “You mean Facebook for thought leaders? No, I won’t be using any of those sites.”

“Rosa” is head of HR for a large tech startup, and someone I trust to tell me what’s really going on in the world of professional recruiting and jobs—the unflinching truth. The last time we talked, she had finally taken back control of her company’s recruiting process...