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Unless they happen to read your resume and see that your experience directly lines up with what your company/team is working on?
Or they see requests to pleasepoach.me in their network logs, which depending on their resolution can nail you to a wall pretty easily.
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?
If the recruiter doesn't have excellent technical judgement (few do), the approaches basically pay the same.
This is connected to an employee's LinkedIn profile, so why wouldn't an employee just change their contact settings to "I am open to career opportunities"? I know a lot of people that have that setting on, even if they are very happy with their job, and I don't know of a single person who has gotten flak for it from their employer.
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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.
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…
Is it? How much do (large|small|startup|) companies pay for recruiting? In my experience, referral bonuses paid to employees are thousands of dollars for a single candidate. In aggregate (staffing, advertising, sites like LinkedIn and pleasepoach.me that provide some quality of filtering) it has to be a lot.
It comes down to how well pleasepoach.me can match candidates to your organization per dollar versus other methods.
This is connected to an employee's LinkedIn profile, so why wouldn't an employee just change their contact settings to "I am open to career opportunities"? I know a lot of people that have that setting on, even if they are very happy with their job, and I don't know of a single person who has gotten flak for it from their employer.
Unfortunately that's very error-prone from the potential employer side. It's not a very strong signal that they're actually looking.
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…
"Charging $5 per profile view ($50 per 10) is simply outrageous." Is it? How much do (large|small|startup| ) companies pay for recruiting? In my experience, referral bonuses paid to employees are thousands of dollars for a single candidate. In aggregate (staffing, advertising, sites like LinkedIn and pleasepoach.me that provide some quality of filtering) it has to be a lot. It comes down to how well pleasepoach.me ca…
I like the idea. Two implementation critiques: 1) Let recruiters see the value before making them pay (e.g. wait until people want to reach out to somebody). 2) Come up with payment terms that don't discourage use. You want people to pay you and then use your service religiously. Per-use pricing forces people to ration the extent that they use your service which gets in the way of maximizing the value you provide the…
Take a lead from dating sites - tease and squeeze.