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Hello, I'm working Alex on Sourcing.io. Please feel free to ask me a question here or email me at any time (richard@sourcing.io).
I get enough spam already from recruiters on LinkedIn - even though I've said I'm not looking for work.
If you want to make this useful, become opt in only. As a recruiter, I don't want to waste time emailing people who aren't looking for work.
Yikes, on the one hand this sounds like a very useful search tool for technical recruiting. On the other, it sounds like its usefulness depends on how many members of your team you sign up for it...and once someone is signed up they scrape all their data and add it to their "database".
Although the social connections feature is really helpful, there are lots of other ways you can use Sourcing.io to search for engineers. There a lots of other ways to filter the data: location, project contributions, language experience, current employer, et al. For example, to find people who might be a fit for your DevOps role at Perfect Audience, you might want to see all the engineers that had contributed to Graphite's web app (https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web) or have lots great DevOps people following them on Twitter--we try make these kinds of searches really easy to do.
Hello, I'm working Alex on Sourcing.io. Please feel free to ask me a question here or email me at any time (richard@sourcing.io).
I asked this on Twitter and never got a reply - how do I opt out? I get enough spam already from recruiters on LinkedIn - even though I've said I'm not looking for work. If you want to make this useful, become opt in only. As a recruiter, I don't want to waste time emailing people who aren't looking for work.
Apologies for the delay in responding your tweet--I found it here(https://twitter.com/edent/status/415537481829068801). I'll get back to you over Twitter as soon as we've removed you from the index.
We are working on a set of tools to allow engineers to manage their profile on Sourcing.io (and opt out)--I hope that they'll be good enough to encourage you to re-join.
Right, so I'll just come right out and say this: What the flying fuck? I already get a TON of recruiterspam (much of it hilariously inaccurate, like offering me a relocation bonus to move to the city I was living in). Based on their "How do you find engineers" answer > We scour the web, and use multiple different sources of public data to find candidates. Next we put all that information through a variety of differen…
(I'm working on Sourcing.io.) We don't currently have a quick-and-easy way for you to opt out--we will do soon. If you'd like to email me on richard@sourcing.io I'd be more than happy to find your profile, show it to you, and remove it permanently. As an aside, we really hate recruiter spam too. We've just got started but our plan is to build a tool to help great recruiters manage engineer-to-engineer outreach--it's…
I don't understand. They say "we find you developers from our database of 4 million devs" but later say that they find them from YOUR github/fb/linkedin/twitter connections? So is this a sort of web scraping tool?
Apologies for the confusion here--we're going to be adding a much more detailed explanation of what we do to the homepage soon. In the meantime, this blog post gives a broad outline of what we're doing: http://blog.sourcing.io/hello-world
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(I'm working on Sourcing.io.) We don't currently have a quick-and-easy way for you to opt out--we will do soon. If you'd like to email me on richard@sourcing.io I'd be more than happy to find your profile, show it to you, and remove it permanently. As an aside, we really hate recruiter spam too. We've just got started but our plan is to build a tool to help great recruiters manage engineer-to-engineer outreach--it's…
Email sent. Looking forward to hearing back.
won't this just enable recruiters to spam developers?
While that is a possible outcome, we're working really hard to make sure that doesn't happen. We'd hate to be responsible for an increase in the volume of recruiter-spam sent to engineers every day. Although this isn't on the homepage, we are planning to add a set of tools so that engineers can manage their profiles and companies' technical recruiters can coordinate engineer-to-engineer outreach. We believe that it's a lot better when engineers should receive cold recruiting emails from the people they'd actually be working with.
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I asked this on Twitter and never got a reply - how do I opt out? I get enough spam already from recruiters on LinkedIn - even though I've said I'm not looking for work. If you want to make this useful, become opt in only. As a recruiter, I don't want to waste time emailing people who aren't looking for work.
(I work with Alex on Sourcing.io.) Apologies for the delay in responding your tweet--I found it here( https://twitter.com/edent/status/415537481829068801 ). I'll get back to you over Twitter as soon as we've removed you from the index. We are working on a set of tools to allow engineers to manage their profile on Sourcing.io (and opt out)--I hope that they'll be good enough to encourage you to re-join.
Please, I urge you to move to an opt-in only model. Otherwise you run the risk of being as despised as Klout and other similar forced participation sites.
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(I work with Alex on Sourcing.io.) Apologies for the delay in responding your tweet--I found it here( https://twitter.com/edent/status/415537481829068801 ). I'll get back to you over Twitter as soon as we've removed you from the index. We are working on a set of tools to allow engineers to manage their profile on Sourcing.io (and opt out)--I hope that they'll be good enough to encourage you to re-join.
Thanks. Although, in the spirit of HN pedantry, I cannot re -join as I never joined in the first place. Please, I urge you to move to an opt-in only model. Otherwise you run the risk of being as despised as Klout and other similar forced participation sites.
I completely understand your perspective. The problem for companies who want to recruit great people is that most of them aren't looking for new a job (several studies put the percentage at around 80%). Therefore, companies are forced to reach out to those people to pique their interest. There's a subset of great companies who take the time to craft personalized, relevant emails to these people; there are some who even get their engineers to write the initial email. We want to work with these kinds of companies.