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I don’t wanna do your dirty work. No more.

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> Hey Sudheendra, Do you know Vivek? With 2.5 years of experience in PHP he seems like a good fit for our next big startup. Thanks to LinkedIn, I noticed you are his 1st connection. Would you mind connecting us?

Wow. "Uh, no"? "Go away"? "Leave me alone"? I'm not going to help someone spam my friends.

This. I barely want to deal with the people approaching _me_. Much less people I know. And what's more I don't think being a 1st level connection on linkedin really carries that much social proofing to the point where going direct is any worse.

:) Well that's up to you :)

Perhaps I misunderstand English but how is asking for a referral as in "Do you know any good developers?" a BAD way to ask for a referral? And how is asking about a specific person's abilities a better way to ask for a general referral?

If you are new to the area and are looking for a good pizza place: Good: "Hey, do you know of any good pizza places around here?" Bad: "Is Tino's over on 4th any good?" The later asks about a specific location, and doesn't tell you if there is anything better. Nor does it help you if the answer is "No"

Hey Chris, perhaps I should have put it in a better way. Asking for a pizza shop is different from asking for a developers. Pizza shops are everywhere and you can walk into any shop any day, developers are usually working on something. I can't randomly point all my developer friends to the guy asking for referral. I would need to talk to my friends first, do some research who is looking for a job and then make a referral. So, All I want people who are asking for referrals to do is find whom they want to connect to and why? HN/Github/StackExchange are some good places to find great programmers and LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter tells you how you are connected to them :-)

hasjob.co is also there !

Yep Harsh, but we are an exclusive hiring platform. You will find only really interesting and meaningful job opportunities at growing Indian Startups :)

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