"Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret: AngelList is disrupting the hiring industry", or "AngelList is useful for hiring people (as just about everyone already knows)"<p>Is AngelList Jobs unknown (never mind a secret!) amongst start up founders (who generally have AngelList profile for both themselves and their companies)?<p>Is this <i>job board</i> "disrupting" the hiring industry which is composed of other job boards and recruiters that post to other job boards?
The last time I looked at them, the salaries and equity shares advertised on many of their job listings were mostly chuckle-worthy at best. Some were appallingly lowball. If they're truly "disrupting" the hiring industry, it certainly isn't to the benefit of the labor pool.
I imagine if it become mainstream, it'll not have the same level of talent and it'd become just another board. It will remain special so long as it does not broaden.<p>So long as it focuses on the creme, then it'll disrupt that 'market' but it cannot disrupt the 'hiring industry' because at that point, it would become diluted and another 'disruptor' would cater to the 'cream'.
It's great on the applicant side, too. I got my last job from AngelList, and they have gotten me the best-quality leads (apart from referrals from friends) this time around as well. The profile has most of the relevant information for job-seekers that you would never get from an intro from a recruiter (investors, total investment, etc).<p>Salaries are always negotiable, but seeing them up-front gives you a good idea of what the company is looking at paying.
AngelList is acting as a niche job board. It's definitely cool, but I wouldn't call it disruptive or revolutionary. As soon as people figure out how to use it as an efficient hiring channel, AngelList will become saturated with companies hiring & candidates looking, just like every other formerly disruptive hiring channel.
I dunno. I tried advertising on AngelList for someone to make big-ticket sales to big companies. I keep getting responses from people who claim to be able to grow website traffic.
This is my favorite bit:<p>"I emailed everyone I knew, posted the job on LinkedIn, got it posted to the jobs list at several universities, and also posted on some paid sites. End result: nothing very good to show for all the effort."<p>Exactly how much effort was 'all the effort'? Did it take you all of 2 hours to post the job on several sites?
I propose we change every occurrence of "disrupt" to "perturb". Or better yet: "Angellist is promoting perturbations" Seems more appropriate, and I'm sick of seeing "disrupt" everywhere.
I got my current job in Germany via AngelList, although I was living in UK at the time. I got several other interesting options in Europe too. It's definitely a great tool in my book.