Mr Bush outdid previous Republican presidents in recruiting his personnel from the conservative counter-establishment.

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These workers deal with personnel drudgery like benefits packages, but they also handle recruiting, interviewing and hiring.

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Their startup, called BrassRing, would go after the job-recruiting market by hosting career fairs, running Internet job boards and developing software for corporate personnel departments and university career-placement offices.

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