Programmer search engine
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Programmer search engine
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#2Ah, it's literally a "Search engine for programmers."
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#3So these are people who are unemployed or risking getting fired by looking for a job in public?
Isn't it better to find people who already have a job they like and try to convince them that they would be even happier in your company?
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#4I said it before and I'll say it again -- charging people looking for jobs is ridiculous. I don't know who the kid in Houston looking for an OCaml internship is, but how the heck does he have $100 to spend on this?
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#5So these are people who are unemployed or risking getting fired by looking for a job in public? Isn't it better to find people who already have a job they like and try to convince them that they would be even happier in your company?
Why would that be better?
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#6I said it before and I'll say it again -- charging people looking for jobs is ridiculous. I don't know who the kid in Houston looking for an OCaml internship is, but how the heck does he have $100 to spend on this?
I believe students get SO careers memberships for free. They only charge non-students. I think they mostly want active job searchers, but $100 does sound a bit high if I just want my resume out there.
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#7So these are people who are unemployed or risking getting fired by looking for a job in public? Isn't it better to find people who already have a job they like and try to convince them that they would be even happier in your company?
Posting you resume on a jobs site does not necessarily mean you are actively looking for a job. And I highly doubt an employer would fire someone just for having their resume publicly posted. Besides, if you’re employer is that fickle, maybe you should have your resume out there, just in case.
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#8So these are people who are unemployed or risking getting fired by looking for a job in public? Isn't it better to find people who already have a job they like and try to convince them that they would be even happier in your company?
You can set your CV to private and only searchable by employers. Unless your employer is signed up for SO Careers I don't think you'll have a problem.
Anyways, it can simply be thought of as your personal resume. You don't have to actively be seeking a job to fill out a CV.
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#9So these are people who are unemployed or risking getting fired by looking for a job in public? Isn't it better to find people who already have a job they like and try to convince them that they would be even happier in your company?
I'm not sure I understand your first sentence.
Is being unemployed a bad thing? Well, yes it generally is for the unemployed person but it doesn't mean that they're a bad hire. Sure, one could say that if they were really good, they would be busy with multiple projects at the same time, or have people waiting for them as soon as their current job ends for a reason or another. But it sounds a little bit condescending to me to imply that being unemployed means you shouldn't be hired.
As for "people risking getting fired", besides the fact that I doubt that it happens that often (and when it does, one could easily argue that it's a sign that it wasn't a good place to be in the first place), I don't see that as a bad thing for somebody hiring.
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#10Yeah, charing for participation is silly. It reduces the number of potential candidates. Headhunters have the equation right: Charge when you actually hook people up.
Not sure how you'd solve the problem of people finding each other on Programmer Search and then just emailing each other externally.