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The Recruiter Honeypot

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RileyJames wrote: post #100
dools wrote: post #68

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Have you guys checked out recruitloop.com.au? They're on the same road: ie. changing the industry by changing the incentives (their's is an hourly pay model).

Yea we've seen recruitloop. Anyone attempting to solve recruitment problems is a friend of ours. We're primarily looking at the needs of freelancers in creative and digital industries at this point. Keen to meet the recruitloop team, we'll be in Sydney at the end of next month, do you know them?

Hi, yes, sorry. They are good dudes give Michael a ring. You should drop into Fishburners anyway :)

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nathan_long wrote: post #131
pawelwentpawel wrote: post #114

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I understand using github/twitter a lot if you're a developer. When you work on something you might want to get some immediate feedback/testers on it. Yet still, linkedin (even though useful) scares me away a little bit. Each single time I get back, I see more and more people inventing longer and more exotic job names and descriptions, pitching around with some void statements and uploading their pictures in suits.

My problem with LinkedIn is other people. People want me to say I know them when I don't (hey, networking!). People want me to recommend them when I have only seen them in the hallway and don't even know what they do. I am very conservative about these things. Does LinkedIn's own model disagree? Does it push people towards larger networks, instead of smaller, higher-value ones? Am I doing it wrong, or is (seemingly)…

There is quite a lot of recruiters/randoms just adding as many people as possible. Without any introductory message, I would just consider that as spam. However, if you know somebody in person but don't know him very well then I don't see a huge problem. I get quite a lot of invites from my former class mates that I had no real connection with. But hey, you never know where your life takes you. Those connections might accidentally come in very useful one day.

As for the recommendations - they've got nothing to loose really. In the worst case they won't get one.

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