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Tech Recruiters that Pay to Contact you Through Email

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I’m starting up a website called http://www.ubercapable.com/professionals.html, for passive tech professionals that want a buffer between them and recruiters or people who are looking for tech co-founders. It's currently in beta and active.

The way it works is when you sign up we create an email address for you. And when anyone emails you at this email address they will have to pay certain price to reach you. We will then send you a notification in which you could accept or deny this request

When you accept this request we will link you and requester up to engage in conversation with them and the money they paid to talk will be waiting for you.

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I sincerely can't see anyone paying for this service. Sure you're solving a problem for tech people but you're not solving any problem for recruiters, the people you want to actually pay for the service.

This solution is born out of frustrating of constantly being spammed by recruiters. If you have this as the only email address they can contact you at and you enforce it they will have no choice but to bend to that.

That concept only works if the majority if tech professionals use the service.

Well to reveal more of the strategy behind that, my team and I are tackling the DMV area first. The recruiters are pretty aggressive with contacting professionals in this area. The developers have developed a blindness to these type of emails. The theory is if we create a pay wall only serious inquiries will pass through and create better response rates to recruiters from tech professionals.

Yes this is exact problem I see in this idea. But at the same time don't recruiters already pay $1500/mo to merely call/email passive professionals on sites like Dice and Monster with no results?

Maybe this site needs to place emphasis on the problem of getting experienced professionals. Monster and Dice don't help at all when it comes to getting passive professionals.

Recruiters don't. Recruitment companies do. Companies that are notoriously slow adopters. They rarely shell out for niche services.

Also very true. These guys will definitely have to pound the payment to drum up staffing agency business.

Excellent idea - charging per email should cut out most of the spam. I have no plans to leave my current employer anytime soon, but I'd certainly at least consider it if the right opportunity came along so I keep a profile on Stack Overflow Careers. Charging recruiters should produce even lower volume and higher quality "head-hunts" than that.

Exactly but this email address can be used also for people that try to contact you for advice. I know when I go to meetups people who have THIS GREAT BUSINESS IDEA feel the need to present to me with no validation and try to bring me to their team. This email will be given to them and produce higher quality requests being sent in general.

So this is like LinkedIn Inmail except I get paid instead of LinkedIn? lol

Exactly lol

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