Careers: The future of job hunting will involve companies creating the candidate they need and job hunters sculpting the job they need, Nick Corcodilos argues in Perfection: Lost in the database? “The implication is interesting, if there were a truly efficient job board out there.” Perhaps we’re so far from that because such employees and prospective employers aren’t always able to find each other. Columnist’s corner: The classic dotcom ‘victim-of-their-own-success’ struck our Off the Record author’s company way back in the ’90’s, when it turned the company over to a new COO. “Within a couple of months, the suits had fired almost 20 percent of the staff. The worst part was that the firings seemed to be almost random.” The cuts kept on coming until revenues declined nearly 50 percent. The owners, quite naturally, were left asking what happened? Careers