Poachbox – Recruit Startup and Tech Talent
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As far as I'm concerned, if you're an employer and something like "I want to leave my job at a top VC backed startup. I’m an iOS Engineer and Designer looking for a new challenge" is enough to pique your interest in a candidate who is ostensibly not motivated enough to reach out to companies of interest and instead wants to sit back and be "poached", you have no right to complain about how hard it is to hire and retain quality employees.
I'm a student and this even looks crazy to me. Who is going to give you an offer when they know nothing about you?
Venture-backed startups tend to hire lots of people, quicky, and there's limited diversity in roles. In my experience, that doesn't always produce great candidates, at least from the perspective of an employer looking to hire truly well-rounded candidates who don't believe they're entitled to $200,000/year because they worked on a spammy iOS app for a company that isn't likely to be in business in 2 years.
I rarely hire anyone without it these days.
It's very difficult to contribute open-source work outside of a day job, especially when you're working on your own side business. The best I've accomplished in the past is getting my employer on-board with the idea of contributing back to open-source for 50% of my time. That's a lot easier at a start-up, however.
If open source becomes the dominant mode for hire screening, it provides an interesting disincentive from taking jobs at open source unfriendly companies.
The sad truth is that most companies are lazy and/or inept at hiring. Once you recognize that, you can either accept that you're playing a numbers game, or you can decide to evolve beyond playing the role of employee.
Despite a lot of talk about remote work on the rise, I've yet to see most companies encouraging it or able to manage remote workers.
Least you could do is make it check for the users location via geo or at least ip and make that the placeholder text.
What I don't like about your approach is the fact that the entire experience of applying/signing up to be poached feels half-assed.
You guys didn't make your own form and the embedded version doesn't really match the rest of the site and looks just thrown together.
There's horrible design inconsistencies (serif fonts mixed in with sans-serif fonts on the same line, and no.. it's not design).
This feels like a badly done DeveloperAuction/Hired clone with an anonymous aspect.
Why make prospective employers apply? It feels like a better experience for both parties would just be a listing of candidates, their skills, their location, etc with the ability to start up a conversation (via email or private message or something). If the guy gets hired, he can remove his posting.
Maybe they should poach an entry level web dev!
That said, even though this would have been a great April Fools' joke, it's also part of a developing trend to provide hyper-liquidity in the hiring market. Besides this company, I've seen at least two "Tinder for hackers" hiring sites in the past couple of months (HackMatch and Blonk) that claim to be making a lot of successful placements.
However, this seems like a decent idea. Kind of a mix between ebay and odesk..sort of.
Got too many downvotes on the previous comment, so here is your chance again to downvote me. If I am a shitty employer, why the phuck is one sticking with me., you only want to flirt with me, that I shouldn't and can not allow. the point I had made was going totally against the employees which is under-stand-able, however I had raised my concern as an employer.
And there are quite a few non-design related comments as well.
> Get at least 5-10 real job offers in 24hrs. Sometimes less.
Isn't that contradictory? Cool idea though.
Great work, keep up :-)
It won't be hard to assume, one of their employees is on the job hunt. So being anonymous might be little of no value, at the end of the day.
And If you are a CEO, you would know which of your employee he/she is, the moment you see the ad ;)
And as an employer, I do not get the idea, it would be more of pain in the asrse than of any 'real' value for employers. And I hate this service.
>Every day, top employers like Google, Apple, Facebook and others use services, tactics and tools like Poachbox to recruit top talent like you.
they use poachbox or a (any other) service like poachbox? If the later, what is the point of even mentioning it, except for deceiving users? If the former. wow! it's incredible.
so bottomline is, you are making shifting ass from one company to another easier, while one could save his/her ass. You know, I am an employer and I am already getting upset. ;)
aaa! downvote. no worries, Mr. Employee. If you ever grow up to become an employer, you would have less or more the same feelings ;)
And! yes consider yourself dead ;)