I got a call yesterday from a friend asking me if I am available for work. I was not and I ended up calling some of my developer friends to ask them if they are available to take on the tasks. They were not, but they said they will ask around. I find this problem often and I am amazed that no one fixed it. I do not always know when my friends are available for work or if they look for someone to help them with tasks and just looking at their Linkedin profile doesn't always mention this.
So how to make this process easier? Is there an app that lets you share between your groups that you are looking for a developer or that you are available for work ( does not include searching for people you don't know or not in your area).
Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of some promising, brand new, social-recruiting-app-platform. No one has built a killer app just yet.<p>Here's one announced just today> <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/smartrecruiters-revolutionizes-how-companies-find-and-hire-great-people-with-the-next-generation-of-its-hiring-platform-2014-07-15" rel="nofollow">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/smartrecruiters-revolutioni...</a><p>> So how to make this process easier? The best method is still a bit Old School. On a regular basis, reach out to your network, actually talk to people live, catch up over beers. The accumulated personal insights will be deeper and more profound than a mere online connection.
Until date no company was able to tackle that issue. There's some startups trying to solve that, for instance <a href="http://www.jobbox.io" rel="nofollow">http://www.jobbox.io</a>, but I think that problem will be solved with a mix of machine learning and referrals.<p>This problem is very difficult to fix because we're dealing w/ people and their careers, which bring confidentiality into the equation and that messes up a bit.<p>Also, this issue is exponentially horrible when it comes to tech recruitment. No one is f* available nowadays but there are plenty of passive tech workers.
As someone who works specifically recruiting for Startups and i have worked with some pretty fast growing ones the main challenges any of these startups is helping recruiting "passive candidates". What i mean by passive candidates is someone who is not actively looking for a job.<p>I believe a platform will come that does cut out the middleman and i am actually working on a few ideas but the harsh reality good companies want the best talent and that talent isn't always looking for a job.<p>Referral apps are a great way to attack the problem but i do not believe will be the only angle.<p>Michael
I remember a few London startups trying to tackle that. Their names are eluding me at the moment.<p>I reckon the reason they didn't get successful is due to challenges in monetization.