Elain Wherry posted a very interesting study that she conducted on javascript recruiters. She is an executive in a small company and was needing to recruit more developers quickly. She needed to answer questions such as "Is it best to use internal or external recruiters?" and "How important is Linked-In for recruiters?"
She created a fake persona and then watched as recruiters came a calling. This is a less commonly used research design but showed how she could gain important managerial insights with minimal effort.
Elain doesn't mention that the idea of a "honeypot" is a classic tool in monitoring potential computer security threats - I like the elegance of using this as a research design for examining software developer recruiters using Linked-In and other tools.
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