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Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

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Re: Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

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Post by mtmail »

Interesting concept

"By paying £500 now to endorse Paul, you will receive £1000 if Paul is hired and passes probation.

If Paul is hired and fails probation, your payment of £500 will be donated to charity.

If Paul is not hired then your payment of £500 will be refunded."

There are interactive demo pages https://gethigher.io/endorse/demo https://gethigher.io/dashboard/demo linked on the homepage, that qualifies for the "HN users can try it out" (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) even though the service isn't launched yet.

Re: Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

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Post by gethigher »

Hello! Adrian and Paul here, we conceived of Higher almost 2 years ago now, partly inspired by a HN thread! The other part was Paul being asked to endorse a colleague he had worked with before, he did so positively, however the owners asked him if he'd bet anything on it and he retracted his endorsement!

We invented the concept of a confidence curation market as a spin off from content creation markets, the system wide effect is those who rise to the top have the most network confidence in passing probation.

We also wanted to bring the human element back into recruiting, giving control back to the candidates to indicate their keenness and applicability for a role whilst staying informed (it's amazing how many recruiting processes right now DON'T update you), candidates can self-endorse or reach out to their network for endorsements.

It's a big idea with lots of nuances and we've just launched our MVP, we're happy to answer any questions!

Re: Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

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Post by gethigher »

mtmail wrote: post #2

Interesting concept "By paying £500 now to endorse Paul, you will receive £1000 if Paul is hired and passes probation. If Paul is hired and fails probation, your payment of £500 will be donated to charity. If Paul is not hired then your payment of £500 will be refunded." There are interactive demo pages https://gethigher.io/endorse/demo https://gethigher.io/dashboard/demo linked on the homepage, that qualifies for th…

AD: The service has been launched! However it's a manual on-boarding at the moment :)

Re: Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

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Post by gethigher »

mooreds wrote: post #3

This might also be worth reading, if you want to learn a bit more about the project: https://medium.com/get-higher/talent-ranking-evolved-introdu...

AD: I'm very over-due on the second part to this series... On my third re-write. I promise to have it up very soon. It covers why human-centric systems are important particularly in this space.

Re: Show HN: Peer to Peer Recruiting?

#7

Post by gethigher »

gethigher wrote: post #4

Hello! Adrian and Paul here, we conceived of Higher almost 2 years ago now, partly inspired by a HN thread! The other part was Paul being asked to endorse a colleague he had worked with before, he did so positively, however the owners asked him if he'd bet anything on it and he retracted his endorsement! We invented the concept of a confidence curation market as a spin off from content creation markets, the system wi…

AD: It's worth pointing out that Harvard Business School just published a report[1] on what they deem as 'Hidden Workers' - one of the major factors in these workers remaining hidden is that their CV or digital profiles can't get past the AI filtering engines almost all ATS system use... We've side stepped AI filtering systems with peer-to-peer collateralised endorsements, humans are doing the match-making and at scale.

[1] https://www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/Documents/re...

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