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Re: Please Poach Me

#91

Post by vidarh »

lpolovets wrote: post #78
angelbob wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately that's very error-prone from the potential employer side. It's not a very strong signal that they're actually looking.

Very true. However, the impression I've gotten from recruiters emailing me is that most of them are just sending uncustomized emails to a lot of people who match some keywords. If that is the case, then contacting 100 people instead of to 25 people means an extra hour of work. I don't think it's worth paying $5/contact to avoid something that takes so little time.

Conversely most e-mails from recruiters get ignored. I'd be far more likely to take an e-mail that I know someone had to pay to get to me seriously, on the assumption it'd likely be better targeted.

Re: Please Poach Me

#92

Post by bobbles »

Jach wrote: post #48
iam wrote: post #34

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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.

Any company that punishes you for exploring your employment options probably isnt worth working for anyway

Re: Please Poach Me

#93

Post by vidarh »

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?

You should tell him you'll take it as long as your severance package once they fire you because you have no clue about what you're doing is at least 7 digits. Then if you got the job, make sure that your first act is to ensure that recruiter will never be employed by that company again - that alone will probably make the cost of the severance package worth it for the company in question.

Re: Please Poach Me

#95

Post by sdfjkl »

If I wanted to look for a job anonymously, the last thing I'd want to do would be to sign in with my LinkedIn profile. I'd probably rather make an extra email account somewhere and use that.

It seems way to easy to implement a third column to this offer: Companies! Find out which of your rat bastard employees is about to abandon ship for only $50 (per month). Get email notifications as soon as one of your employees logs into our site and use our handy Word template to fire them automatically!

Re: Please Poach Me

#96

Post by PakG1 »

damncabbage wrote: post #88
PakG1 wrote: post #52

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Hey Josh, That's interesting! Curious what you think about mine if you have time? :) We just launched publicly. I imagine you guys must have people who are working on something similar to us as well. Here's a writeup. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/socialcheckme/

Hello. Your site interests me, but I've no idea what you do. I need to provide an email address to find out. This is not a good value proposition for me. Could you perhaps make your site more informative, please? Thanks.

Hehe, yes, we're making all that good stuff actually this weekend. :) We felt tired of working on little details and wanted to immediately push out to get some feedback. But we've realized we need more detailed information and how-tos available also. I'll email you when we put it up!

Re: Please Poach Me

#97

Post by tchock23 »

Maro wrote: post #85

Some feedback: 1. About the name: Non-native speakers may not know what "poach" means. I've lived in California for four years in the past and I was confused. 2. The cartoon fox looks like it's about to steal my mouse. It looks like you're trying to sell me lockpicking tools... 3. I think you should better explain what recruiters get out of this versus what LinkedIn offers. 4. Your landing page is really two landing…

Just curious about your fourth point above... Why do you think two landing pages would be better?

I've seen this approach used on a number of other sites that are seemingly successful, and am debating the single landing page approach for a project of mine, so I would be interested to hear the pros and cons.

Re: Please Poach Me

#98

Post by jurre »

sdfjkl wrote: post #95

If I wanted to look for a job anonymously, the last thing I'd want to do would be to sign in with my LinkedIn profile. I'd probably rather make an extra email account somewhere and use that. It seems way to easy to implement a third column to this offer: Companies! Find out which of your rat bastard employees is about to abandon ship for only $50 (per month). Get email notifications as soon as one of your employees l…

I think that goes completely against the whole point of the website, it's a platform where you can let people know your interested in finding a new job without your employer finding out about it.

Re: Please Poach Me

#99

Post by nodata »

jurre wrote: post #98
sdfjkl wrote: post #95

If I wanted to look for a job anonymously, the last thing I'd want to do would be to sign in with my LinkedIn profile. I'd probably rather make an extra email account somewhere and use that. It seems way to easy to implement a third column to this offer: Companies! Find out which of your rat bastard employees is about to abandon ship for only $50 (per month). Get email notifications as soon as one of your employees l…

I think that goes completely against the whole point of the website, it's a platform where you can let people know your interested in finding a new job without your employer finding out about it.

I think he was being sarcastic.

Re: Please Poach Me

#100

Post by Maro »

tchock23 wrote: post #97
Maro wrote: post #85

Some feedback: 1. About the name: Non-native speakers may not know what "poach" means. I've lived in California for four years in the past and I was confused. 2. The cartoon fox looks like it's about to steal my mouse. It looks like you're trying to sell me lockpicking tools... 3. I think you should better explain what recruiters get out of this versus what LinkedIn offers. 4. Your landing page is really two landing…

Just curious about your fourth point above... Why do you think two landing pages would be better? I've seen this approach used on a number of other sites that are seemingly successful, and am debating the single landing page approach for a project of mine, so I would be interested to hear the pros and cons.

I'm not really an expert on landing pages, it just seems to me that coming up with a good landing page for one set of users is hard enough...

This isn't that bad until the first horizontal line (except for the fox), where it's clearly targeted at the users, with a smaller link for companies. But I don't think it works below the line.

I think they should focus on the users and assume that the recruiters are professionals willing to jump through more hoops.

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