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Won't this have the same problem as linkedin, programmers will delist themselves when they started getting daily calls from desperate recruiters ?
In the spirit of XKCD Explained: Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software. He thinks those people are cool and he really likes how their time, effort and reputation on his site are something they can sell to recruiters for additional revenue. This is literally his dream come true.
It's only a very, very roughly a programmer-search engine. It's much more an extension of the stackoverflow community.
In the spirit of XKCD Explained: Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software. He thinks those people are cool and he really likes how their time, effort and reputation on his site are something they can sell to recruiters for additional revenue. This is literally his dream come true.
I think you have this characterized a bit wrong - he thinks that people that use his website would make for good job candidates.
Technical recruiters make ridiculous amounts of money for moving people between companies. If this is successful it will be very lucrative for FogCreek.
But that's because traditional recruiters usually take a % of the person's salary. Stackoverflow only charges a subscription fee for searching the database so they probably won't make as much. If you are a hiring manager, you can test-drive our search interface any time and get an idea of how many matches you'll find. No surprises here. But if you'd like to view candidate details and make contact, you'll need a subsc…
Won't this have the same problem as linkedin, programmers will delist themselves when they started getting daily calls from desperate recruiters ?
Also, you can easily remove yourself from the search results.
I'm too lazy to look at the site, but I'm wondering how they are solving the problem of people forgetting/not bothering to uncheck the "available" option? I suppose if they charge a small fee, people would have an incentive to delist themselves after they find a job.
I'm too lazy to look at the site, but I'm wondering how they are solving the problem of people forgetting/not bothering to uncheck the "available" option? I suppose if they charge a small fee, people would have an incentive to delist themselves after they find a job.
In the spirit of XKCD Explained: Joel Spolsky thinks we should all hire people who regularly use his software. He thinks those people are cool and he really likes how their time, effort and reputation on his site are something they can sell to recruiters for additional revenue. This is literally his dream come true.
You're right. I wonder if this was part of the plan for stack overflow from the beginning. This is an ingenious way to monetize its existing user base while creating incentives for stack overflow users to keep creating valuable content for free.
This is interesting Joel is just now discovering this. As the co-founding CTO of Hotjobs.com, we provided this functionality on the very first version of Hotjobs in 1996, and subsequently ended up purchasing Resumix to provide a very in depth technical solution to allow employers this exact functionality you're describing. Of course, we had tens of millions of resumes in every possible industry imaginable all searcha…
Not to take anything away from hotjobs, but I would argue that the real value Stack overflow careers offers is the fact that an employer can not only see your CV, but at least somewhat determine your level of expertise through your stack overflow account/reputation. I imagine Joel believes this has more value then just the data extracted from a resume.
What stops people from linking to their stackoverflow accounts? Many people already link their CV to their github accounts.
This is interesting Joel is just now discovering this. As the co-founding CTO of Hotjobs.com, we provided this functionality on the very first version of Hotjobs in 1996, and subsequently ended up purchasing Resumix to provide a very in depth technical solution to allow employers this exact functionality you're describing. Of course, we had tens of millions of resumes in every possible industry imaginable all searcha…
Not to take anything away from hotjobs, but I would argue that the real value Stack overflow careers offers is the fact that an employer can not only see your CV, but at least somewhat determine your level of expertise through your stack overflow account/reputation. I imagine Joel believes this has more value then just the data extracted from a resume.