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Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
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Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#42Suggestions:
-Filter by job, location, salary (as suggested by others)
-RSS
-A "find other poachees" like this one button. (Could use ranges with the filter feature to make it even more convenient.)
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#43It struck me as odd that I would want to hire people this way. As far as I can tell everyone is just asking for more money (big surprise, I know) but it says nothing about what they want to do, are interested in, etc. Do I just blindly reach out to a bunch of people and hope they match my needs?
This is just an introduction service. You're not sending out offers to anonymous individuals. You ask for their resume, talk with them on the phone, bring them in for an interview, and see if they are a fit.
This is just a way to find people who are already working and may be interested in changing jobs, but who do not want to post their resume to monster.com.
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#44It really needs a small "experience" section. It should be small, so a recruiter can still scan; but I really want to be able to differentiate at least between junior and senior people. I also would like to have an "interest". I don't want to contact somebody wanting to do games for my web startup. That just wastes both our time.
Thats what a resume is for.
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#45It struck me as odd that I would want to hire people this way. As far as I can tell everyone is just asking for more money (big surprise, I know) but it says nothing about what they want to do, are interested in, etc. Do I just blindly reach out to a bunch of people and hope they match my needs?
it simply starts the conversation, I'm a X who lives in Y and wants a salary of Z. i'd prefer this to receiving random emails from recruiters.
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#46Maybe instead of "and I currently make ___" you should have "and I have ___ years experience in ____". Or at least have both.
Pay is probably a better indicator though. People can have years of experience and still not be good at the job, but pay highlights what kind of value they are generating. Someone who is not good at the job is unlikely to be in the position to earn top dollar. There will be outliers. Like the talented person who is willing to work for peanuts just because the job is amazing. But that is why there is an infinite numbe…
Well, in my city average pay for programmers is 12 000 $. I know of people earning 35 000 $, but that's the upper limit.
So if I wanted to use this site I would be considered bad programmer.
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#47This is really awesome, so awesome I think that you should think about how to monetize it and make some serious money. (I know that's seemingly against the "hacker ethos", but it's not often that you think of million-dollar ideas).
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#48After posting and reading all the other listings. I've realized I'm one of the few hardware guys on HN. Any other hardware/low-level guys out there?
Yup. Embedded systems board bring-up, device drivers, and embedded GUI/HMI applications.
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#49Any chance we could see a freelance/contract version of the form? About the only difference would be $/hr support.
Re: Show HN: Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack
#50One of the unintended uses for this tool is for founders to figure out what the competitive market salary is for positions they're trying to fill.
Since you don't know the persons background and skill level you still can't accurately determine this - even with the guess that someone has grown over time in compensation because of skill, there are plenty of people who have managed to slip through the cracks or have done enough job hopping to allow them to achieve a higher salary without actually have the knowledge to back it up.