We spent a couple hours grilling Kent Harris on the phone. Kent was the recruiter behind Amazon's growth to 12,000 employees. He worked building the culture at Walmart.com. He's been a recruiter for a long time. These days, he's building a new company called "Other Resources". Like NotJobs and Cruel World before him, he's bound and determined to make the outsourcing for recruiters business work.

He survived the grilling well enough to earn a passing grade (we were certain that no one could!).

It's the Recruiting Management experience that makes him likely to succeed (the large bucketful of brains and sophistication doesn't hurt.) The long term tricks in developing this sort of business involve balancing economic cycles, professional targets, growth rates and regional influences. The prospect of building an integrated plan that really accounts for all of those variables gives us a headache. But, Kent has envisioned an operation that is sophisticated enough to account for the variations that killed off the others.

The value proposition is simple. For $24,000 you get 5 "qualified" candidates in 21 days for each of 20 jobs. Pricing drops from there based on volume. Other Resources does the grunge work, recruiters do recruiting. It's delightfully simple and a great play in the post cost-cutting environment. (In fact, if you are still looking for some cost-cutting measures, this is a great way to reduce costs and non-essential functions.)

Currently, the company has nearly 200 customers, all developed in an extremely stealthy sales mode. They are just about ready for prime time. 

Our guess is that the services are worth more than the current price (customers consistently thought so). That means that the price will rise as the company gains experience and delivers real results. We'd suggest that if you might be in the market for these sorts of services, the time to buy is now while the price is low.

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