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Re: Sourcing.io

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Post by ameralimanovic »

maccman wrote: post #36
ameralimanovic wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate this idea leveraging data from Twitter and GitHub and truly believe that's the better way to find professional engineers which are associated with your community somehow. What about intelligent algorithms to evaluate and to display engineer skills (points or school grades)?

We actually originally started generating a 'score' for engineers, and it's still part of our API. However, we dropped it from the interface since it was confusing a lot of people, and the score tended to reflect how popular an engineer was, rather than how good they were. As you can imagine, figuring out the latter is a very complex problem. For now, we've removed it.

That's true. It's nearly impossible to evaluate accurately how good an engineer was, but for me personally it seems to be useful to display similar informations to companies. Something like "geek cred" (coderwall.com) or open-source track record, because building many projects is one of the key-factors of experience. Coderwall published that they work with statistical methods like central tendency. https://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-05-the-companies-id-want-...

Re: Sourcing.io

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Post by xerophtye »

X4 wrote: post #6
xerophtye wrote: post #3

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?

Time for the damn GitHub to introduce more privacy, instead of putting all you ever do in a PUBLIC activity feed, with no opt out.

i thought they gave privacy options to paying users, no?

Re: Sourcing.io

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Post by richardburton »

mpermar wrote: post #38

First of all, best of luck with this guys. This approach has been already tried many different times. I've got some friends that really pushed really high on that whole "recruiting via web scrapping" thing - https://masterbranch.com/ ( feel free to contact them, they are really nice guys ). I wish you luck because I understand this approach never really worked for anyone. IMHO, it's simple [Disclaimer: I created a su…

Thanks for sharing the link Masterbranch--it looks like they're catering to both sides of the market place. I'd be really interested to hear more about what you learning during your foray into recruiting--could you email me on richard@sourcing.io?

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Post by octaveguin »

Scraping data of engineers not looking for jobs with the purpose of recruiter spam?

Sounds like that dating site that scraped facebook and called it their userbase:

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/02/facebook-dating/

Honestly, sometimes this stuff really works and only seems shady before it takes off.

But sometimes it's just shady.

Re: Sourcing.io

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Post by undecisive »

msy wrote: post #30

That they launched with a price tag and functionality for recruiters but nothing to even let developers see the profiles they've assembled, without consent, by scraping public data tells you all you need to know about their respect for engineers.

I'm not sure you quite understand the concept of "public".

It's a specialised search engine. It aggregates public data, data you have said the world should see, and presents it in a form that a particular userbase might appreciate.

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Post by pacofvf »

Ok, It's good that you are working in an opt out, but how about of an opt in?, many developers don't have a public profile to scrape their abilities..

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Post by poseid »

mtrimpe wrote: post #35
richardburton wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm working with Alex on Sourcing.io.) Hi Chris--I completely agree that an engineer's ability to learn is a huge part of their value. With that said, many companies are searching for engineers who are intimately familiar with particular languages or frameworks. Anyone can get comfortable with a new framework over a weekend--it takes much longer to be become an expert. Your idea for a better Glassdoor is an interest…

I don't know if it's universal (Dutch freelance IT); but I would loooove to have a tool that would: * broadcast my availability to a group of approved (company) recruiters * let recruiters propose companies to me (and have me list companies I already have contacts at or was introduced at.) * let me set up job interviews with the interesting opportunities * and, most importantly , let the recruiters/companies place bi…

That is an interesting idea to have some kind of broker platform where you trade skills against rates. I have been exploring a small job platform idea too, and maybe anyone out there wants to chat more?
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