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Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by damncabbage »

kennystone wrote: post #17
theli0nheart wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, we thought about that. We only provide a way for companies to contact you through an anonymous email (similar to Craigslist) so we decided it wasn't a key feature.

Yeah, but I don't think it would be difficult to match experience and projects to a person, especially if the company is small. I love the idea, though.

And given a lot of people use GitHub or their own blog as their primary method of showcasing what they can do, the anonymity this provides doesn't seem as useful as it might first appear.

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by tkrajcar »

munin wrote: post #53

if you work for a small company (10-200), displaying the company name basically destroys any anonymity. why display your current company name?

Yup, exactly. Decent idea, but this kills it completely.

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by tkrajcar »

theli0nheart wrote: post #8
philco wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool idea! The biggest risk of volunteering yourself to get poached is that your company finds out BEFORE you get poached. Everyone loses :-( If you block people at the same company, that could be a good way around it for sure. Do you think salary is the only thing that motivates people wanting to leave? Ancillary benefits to the job may be greater motivators for current employees to switch jobs, no?

Since the emails are anonymous (e.g. q8XR1BB2TokDXslewseDlGc9E@pleasepoach.me) and your name isn't provided, there's no way your company can find out if you're on the site--unless it's just you and your co-founder :(

except that every potential-employee listed has their current company listed in the results that this site shows...

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by BadassFractal »

Generally speaking the best jobs are given through word of mouth and knowing the right people, so you'd still be far from getting the cream of the crop positions. I think the HN crowd can be more ambitious than this.

Also, startups and small businesses most likely cannot afford this service.

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by nl »

jonknee wrote: post #60
joshhart wrote: post #47

I work at LinkedIn, so I think I'm reasonably qualified to provide my opinion. I'm certain that this won't work well. Charging $5 per profile view ($50 per 10) is simply outrageous. Most profiles will be junk or irrelevant - recruiters work very hard to sift through the chaff. Even of those that ARE relevant, there's a small chance they'll wind up working at your company. You'd have to have an unprecedented algorithm…

LinkedIn likes to brag about how it's reasonably priced... Just $18 per resume. "The cost to obtain a qualified resume on LinkedIn was less than CareerBuilder; $18.33 per resume versus $175.50." http://talent.linkedin.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/cost-per-r... I don't think pricing is going to be the problem here.

That's not comparable at all. Or rather it is, but it makes LinkedIn look exactly the same price, with a bigger candidate pool.

The $18 per resume there is after human screening removed the bad resumes. Pleasepoachme charges $10 per match - and as far as I can see all they do is a text match on the requirements.

In the post you linked to, he had to review 39 LinkedIn resumes to get 11 qualified candidates. Based on the Pleasepoachme rates, looking at 40 resumes would be $200. Assuming 11 candidates were found, that is $18 per qualified candidate.

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by munin »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #54
philco wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool idea! The biggest risk of volunteering yourself to get poached is that your company finds out BEFORE you get poached. Everyone loses :-( If you block people at the same company, that could be a good way around it for sure. Do you think salary is the only thing that motivates people wanting to leave? Ancillary benefits to the job may be greater motivators for current employees to switch jobs, no?

Is it that frowned upon in "industry" to look for other jobs? I'd like to think that whatever manager I might work for wouldn't be irate if he found out I was looking at moving on. This may sound like a naive question and it is. I've only had internships and am soon to go full time at a very large company.

bad employers can think they own you. if they find out you're looking or are going to quit, they can react very poorly. especially if how they find out is seeing your resume on a job site (or worse, if a recruiter brings your resume to your current boss).

"don't work for bad employers then" yeah pretty much! but you need to eat and pay the rent while you're looking for your next job so any way to both get your resume out there while not alerting your current boss is desired. this website is definitely not that (though really, most websites aren't if that's your concern).

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by cnxsoft »

zavulon wrote: post #36
absconditus wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$50 is really nothing for recruiting.

Actually, in recruiting you pay nothing until one lump sump when you hire someone. Here, you pay EACH TIME, and it adds up (even if it adds up to less than 20% recruiting fee, it still feels like constantly paying)

That's true but once an agency finds the right candidate you have to pay a lot to hire him/her, like 3 months salary.

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by NathanKP »

kloncks wrote: post #29
leif wrote: post #13

I'd love "pleasestoptryingtopoach.me".

I got a call from a recruiter recently. Turns out he thinks I'll be a great candidate to be the new CEO of some algorithmic trading/financial services company in New York City...given my decades of experience in the field. MBA required. I'm a 21-year-old who just took a leave of absence to concentrate on Kout.me ; how is it that I'm even a target of these people yet?

I usually get one or two job offers a month, but I always get my contacts via one of my web app projects that I built as a sample of my skills. Surprisingly the offers aren't from ignorant recruiters, and are mostly legit offers from decent startup companies.

Of course I am happily employed full time already so I am turning offers down. However, I don't think being contacted is a bad thing. At the very least I am building a list of email addresses of insiders from reputable startups that I can draw from if I ever am on the search for a new job.

Re: Please Poach Me

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Post by msbarnett »

thenextcorner wrote: post #43

As a hiring manager, why would I hire people who advertise themselves to be poached? In a couple of months, I'm not really sure if they will still be interested, or if they are already on the site again. I guess that depends if you can keep them interested first.

Doesn't that logic apply to every potential hire who comes to you while employed somewhere else?
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