Resource Availability
Fortunately in today’s information-rich business environment, there is easy access to vast amounts of research on CD and via Internet-based research…including subscription and pay-per-query websites. As a result, our resources rival those of even the largest search firms.
“Do we have thousands of people in a proprietary database,” Scott asks. “Yes,” even though he admits the large firms have bigger databases. “But that’s not where my hires have come from…even when I worked at the big firm. I never remember hiring someone from the database. They’ve always come from ‘real-time’ recruiting and networking…not databases that tend to get stale pretty quickly.”