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This is mostly an angry rant, pretty amusing to me how upset the author actually becomes at times, I think its quite harsh. I did like this idea towards the en
by dates 11y ago
This is mostly an angry rant, pretty amusing to me how upset the author actually becomes at times, I think its quite harsh.
I did like this idea towards the end of it:
"To employers – ask your staff to help find new hires. Offer a bounty – enough to get their attention, say a fortnight’s salary. It’s a lot less than [a recruiter] would cost. And their incentives are all positive: no-one will hire an idiot if they have to work alongside them and new staff with social ties to your team are far more likely to stay. You’ll be amazed how effective this can be."
- hoorayimhelping 11y agoThis is completely common in America. Is the London job market scene just messed up?
- crusso 11y agoThis is completely common in America Except for the use of the term "fortnight". :)
- ckozlowski 11y agoI took a job abroad after coming from the U.S., and updated my LinkedIn accordingly. Soon after, the spam shot up through the roof. All of the same, non-descript, no-details contacts the author describes. It's been striking.
- robotkilla 11y agoI torched my linkedin account a while back after recruiters wouldn't stop hounding me. I also despise social networks of all sorts so that contributed to my decision. Before I torched it though I tried a little experiment. I left my tech skills in place, but also added things like "Blacksmithing" and "Former POTUS" as my skill set. I also said "Do not contact me" and "I hate recruiters" and something along the lines of "if you contact me, you clearly didn't read my profile" - the spam seemed to increase for a while before I finally deleted the profile completely.
- vonmoltke 11y agoMeanwhile, I consider two LinkedIn hits in the same month to be a lot. :/
- robotkilla 11y agoI never made a dime or had any positive experience with Linkedin. Just recruiter spam and "friends" begging for endorsements... so I don't think you're missing out on anything.
- hoorayimhelping 11y agoInteresting. A similar thing happened when I moved to New York City, it might just be a new node appearing in a network.
- mavdi 11y agoIn London no one has any friends to begin with.
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- fredkbloggs 11y agoIt's common in the US, sure, but it rarely works. It's not that we don't all know a few people we'd be glad to work with again, it's that they're mostly happy and well-compensated where they are. Offering me an extra few grand isn't going to change that, and it isn't nearly enough to make splitting it with the candidate a game-changer either. Occasionally someone you want will be available during a bust (which often means during a hiring freeze, too) or under some unusual personal circumstances, but it doesn't happen often enough to make up for attrition much less grow a team.
- bostik 11y agoYes. We ran some back-of-the-envelope numbers last week at the office. Wolfram provided us with a ballpark figure that there are about 70k "IT industry professionals" in London region. Of this, 10-15% (so maybe 12k) are the good ones, and absolutely everybody is fighting for them. There are more than 10k tech industry companies in London alone. [0] Competition for talent is fierce, to say the least - and every single startup I know of is hiring. Us included. 0: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/10/tech-city-uk-ceo-gerard-grech-qa-wired http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/10/tech-city-uk-... (24% of 47k)
- gotchange 11y agoActually the solution he suggested might not be helpful at all as this recruitment methodology may lead gradually over time to favoritism, cliquism, cronyism, tribalism you name it in the workplace as everyone is vouching their friends and acquaintances to key and select positions inside the organization to help them cement and consolidate their power and hinders the progress of the organization as a whole in the process.