Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005)
This is one of my favorite Joel articles.  The conclusion is relevant to us both as business owners and job seekers: any publicly available job will get spammed to death with offal, accordingly, the best jobs and the best candidates for jobs will both be placed privately.<p>I literally have not had a resume since I read this, with the exception of a pro-forma one to give my ex-job so that they could pretend I was hired on the basis of what was written on my resume as opposed to, say, hired as a favor to a vendor who owed me a favor.  We brought the resume to the job interview that happened after the decision had been made to employ me.