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The outbound sourcing work is the worst part without doubt, but the game took care of that for you. That, and the fact that it was backed by people with good in
by fecak 10y ago
The outbound sourcing work is the worst part without doubt, but the game took care of that for you. That, and the fact that it was backed by people with good industry names, was the beauty of Starfighter. I told Patrick that you already had the two hardest parts covered - engaging with qualified candidates and establishing credibility.
You also had cred with the hiring folks, so that was taken care of as well - hiring clients were going to be easy to identify without much effort.
The hard part would be scaling it to some degree - Patrick and you/Erin wouldn't be able to talk to every candidate if you were going to make serious $, and then you'd have to hire actual recruiters (who are wildly unpopular), and then you're starting to approach the problem of being like everyone else (other than the game) if the recruiters behave like...recruiters.
If you ever want to discuss recruiting stuff, I'm easy to find.
- TulliusCicero 10y ago> If you ever want to discuss recruiting stuff, I'm easy to find. Yeah you are. Do you use this same username everywhere?
- fecak 10y agoIt's my last name, the name of one of my companies, and it's always available.
- elptacek 10y agoTalking to every candidate (the ones that were loosely designated as 'mine') turned out to be my most favorite part of this whole deal. In some ways, even better than having an opportunity to write an AVR emulator. These guys are smart and they have interesting stories, and the enthusiasm they expressed for what they wanted out of their careers plucked my mom strings pretty hard. I always knew that if we continued to grow, that this part would go away, but I would have struggled to keep this going as long as I could. Even if it meant less serious $. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that had we grown to the point where hiring "actual recruiters," it would have been impossible to find ones with the same mindset.
- fecak 10y agoNot impossible, but you'd be looking for the same caliber of recruiter as you were looking for engineers. Perhaps even more rare.