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Ask HN: Experienced devs, do you wish for work to find you?

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Re: Ask HN: Experienced devs, do you wish for work to find you?

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Experience can be assessed by asking for LinkedIn/website/resume and checking that. This will probably suffice for the 90%. It's not going to be foolproof. Just because someone has good experience in their background doesn't mean they're good. But neither are interviews foolproof. They can be gamed. I wouldn't need to prove to companies that the vetting is valid. They can see the results themselves. The platform woul…

Sorry but this makes no sense to me. Anyone can put whatever on a resume. I can pay some guy in a 3rd world country to build me a nice looking website. You would be doing even less than a recruiter to vet my experience. You would absolutely need to prove to companies - your customers - that your vetting process - your product - is valid. How are you going to get it going if your only argument is "look, it's been 3 da…

Have you ever not interviewed a candidate presented by a recruiter?

Has a candidate presented by a recruiter never been a dud? Most recruiters I have worked with aren't able to assess my experience anyways.

It is absolutely possible that this can be gamed but the game won't last long. And it's possible that some level of vetting will need to be built anyway. We'll see.

> As a hiring manager,you would literally be taking value away from me since I would be reaching a smaller pool of candidates

No one is saying you're forced to use this as your only solution. Obviously you won't.

Re: Ask HN: Experienced devs, do you wish for work to find you?

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Sorry but this makes no sense to me. Anyone can put whatever on a resume. I can pay some guy in a 3rd world country to build me a nice looking website. You would be doing even less than a recruiter to vet my experience. You would absolutely need to prove to companies - your customers - that your vetting process - your product - is valid. How are you going to get it going if your only argument is "look, it's been 3 da…

Have you ever not interviewed a candidate presented by a recruiter? Has a candidate presented by a recruiter never been a dud? Most recruiters I have worked with aren't able to assess my experience anyways. It is absolutely possible that this can be gamed but the game won't last long. And it's possible that some level of vetting will need to be built anyway. We'll see. > As a hiring manager,you would literally be tak…

Then maybe I missed the point of your thing. What's the value you're providing exactly if I still need to run my interviews? This would not be saving me any time or money.

Re: Ask HN: Experienced devs, do you wish for work to find you?

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I don't now but I tried in the past. Working with individual clients is worse than my day job, so I want to make more per hour, not less. I don't think it can be worthwhile, unless I find myself REALLY needing the money (i.e. unexpected debilitating medical bills). I use my free time for music and family (not in that order)

> Working with individual clients is worse than my day job I can fully relate to this. For this reason, I generally prefer to work with just one "primary" client at a time. Doing any moonlighting alongside a job though is playing on hard mode. With regards to finding a full time job, how do you go about it (when you do)? Just hit up your network?

Network, some go-to websites. It's all looking pretty dry right now.
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