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Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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Absolutely agree — I think that's the most important thing we want to test with this iteration :) I'd think that people would choose the professional connections they trust rather than their stoner roommate from college, but there's only so much hypothesising we can do without real people trying it out! I'm not a huge fan of Bob Marley either, but I know what you mean. It could be your friend who is, say, a prominent…

Awesome, I'm glad your really thinking everything over. To be honest, it wasn't entirely clear to be that you can pick the friends you want to tweet about you. I guess now looking at it that seems rather obvious, haha. It would be really cool to see a recommendation engine, for example, "We think you should ask your friend John Doe to endorse you because he has a massive Twitter following, speaks regularly to compani…

The first few very, very early prototypes were built because I, then my girlfriend, then some of my closest friends were in the situation where they needed something like this - so I'm quite passionate about making it work :)

That's an amazing idea — we hadn't thought that far ahead yet in terms of NLP stuff, but we can definitely do some amalgamation of Twitter and, say, GitHub data to help you know who to target :)

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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Having been to the HN London and heard the talk from Makeshift, I hope this doesn't disappear in 3 months! As a dev in London looking for a job, i'll give it a go. Good luck.

What kind of work are you looking for?

Looking to move into a position as a Python developer, with a mix of front and backend work.

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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Interesting approach to a real problem.

Talking out of my arse but could you use the list of "friends" to get a rough idea of who the candidate is? Amongst a given set of friends there may only be one Rubyist with JavaScript and Karate skills...

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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Interesting approach to a real problem. Talking out of my arse but could you use the list of "friends" to get a rough idea of who the candidate is? Amongst a given set of friends there may only be one Rubyist with JavaScript and Karate skills...

Good point - quite possibly, depending on the mix of how you describe yourself (e.g. if you just copy your Twitter bio), the sum of the people you choose to endorse you, and the density of the people with your skillset in your social graph/geographic location.

Selfishly, I've always worked in London/San Francisco where almost everyone I know is either a designer, front-ender, Rubyist, or an awkward mix of the above, and everyone knows each other.

I'm not sure how this would work out in more specialised disciplines, other industries or other locations, but the only way to find out is to see how people use it :)

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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What kind of work are you looking for?

Looking to move into a position as a Python developer, with a mix of front and backend work.

I know EDITD are looking for talented people — http://editd.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer/

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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This is really a great idea. It has the potential to offer a practical end-run around recruiters for potential employees in this situation.

As an employer, I'd love to be able to sign up and have your system DM me any time there's someone in my area looking for a job. Heck I'd even pay a small fee for the service!

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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What kind of work are you looking for?

Looking to move into a position as a Python developer, with a mix of front and backend work.

Cool. We are looking for strong JS developers at Skimlinks. PHP and Python would be a huge bonus. My email is in my profile. Give me a shout if interested.

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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As everyone has said, good idea, but I see one big pitfall.

Don't become LinkedIn's "endorsement" system. I'm not an employer, but I think it has ended up losing it's meaning (people just endorse each other willy nilly or a scratch-my-back-and-I-will-scratch-yours kind of thing) -

I'm thinking one way to escape this whole is finding a way to enforce/emphasize talking up friends that you have personally WORKED with for extended periods of time, to get more honesty

Re: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job

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"Sign in with twitter". Don't have an account, don't need one right now. Thanks and bye.

Twitter is a lot better than Facebook IMO, and a Twitter account is easy to set up and easy to delete.

Why not implement your own as well, for people who do not want to connect to another account?

What about google?

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