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When I first crash-landed into the world of recruiting in 1996, the “public” Internet was little more than a toddler, about five years old. Businesses had only just begun to underestimate its potential. Even as a naïve initiate of the staffing world, fresh out of the Peace Corps, I immediately recognized its powers of disruption and disintermediation. I thought it would be a game-changer. And I was right. It was to be the death of recruiting as it was, and the birth of how it would be.