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I started the "Who wants to be hired?" threads over 5 years ago [1] after dang giving his blessing on it [2], and was super excited that it led to the job [3] that I still happily hold today.

I really wish these threads were more active -- and received more upvotes -- relative to the "Who's hiring" threads, as it seems like the signal to noise is so much better, and also seems like the success rate would be quite a bit higher.

I'm not sure if a) people aren't aware of the threads, or b) people don't have confidence in their success rate.

But as someone whose career -- and as a result, life -- got a big boost from it, I highly recommend anyone considering a move to try posting there. Seems like it could only help!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682189

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251

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I've thought about it and my concern with using the thread if I were job hunting is that if a coworker saw me on it, it might come out that I'm looking elsewhere when I'm not wanting that out yet.

The Who's Hiring Thread would help me keep my search more private.

I think this is the major reason for the difference in volume of posts between the two threads.

And this is the reason why your online persona needs to be separated from your real life persona.

Or, just use throwaways (with throwaway contact info) when you want to post but remain anonymous (assuming you don’t need to go into details that would otherwise identity you).

I'd love for the whole 'hiring' section to be made a permanent fixture rather than a thing that only happens once every month. A spot in the top bar would be best.

There's already a jobs link there

The jobs link is only for ycombinator companies.

I didn't know that, but it makes sense.

Yes, it's one of the perks of being in YC, I believe.

There is always https://whoishiring.io which is collecting job offerings from those threads and some more

I think they would be more active if there were more variety in the type of work sought? Almost every post is seeking the same thing: full-stack dev, dev ops, and ops eng. If you're seeking something outside those constraints (i.e. pentesting, threat intel, risk management, compliance, etc) there's not much there. And although this is getting better, so many companies are still stuck on location-specific hiring constraints. HN has a global audience, posting here and constraining yourself to Nowheresville, Nebraska does you and your company a huge disservice.

Thanks for creating it! As for me it was certainly the "people don't have confidence in their success rate". Also was always a bit afraid of recruiter spam.

Here's the link of this month's edition, if anyone wants to give it a go (I finally did!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325923

Is there an aggregation tool available anywhere for these threads equivalent to hnhiring.com for the "who is hiring" threads? I'm often looking to hire for startups within my network but sometimes the threads can become tedious to parse through.

I was hired into a life-changing job as a result of one of your threads. It seems I owe you a debt of gratitude. So thank you!!

I wonder how many people on HN are like me; no STEM background, no fancy degrees, no fancy qualifications, and thus don't even open either variety of thread because we're pretty confident we will never find listings in the one variety we are remotely qualified for and know that it is extremely unlikely anyone will want to hire us from the other variety.

Then factor in people also like me in Indy, that do not live anywhere near the bay area or other large tech center and have no interest whatsoever in relocating.

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