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Thanks for posting this straw-man, Brian [disclosure - I'm an investor in RescueTime, and talked to Brian about this idea earlier]. If I might kick off this di
by mckoss 16y ago
Thanks for posting this straw-man, Brian [disclosure - I'm an investor in RescueTime, and talked to Brian about this idea earlier]. If I might kick off this discussion ...
I think it's a cool idea if done right. If I can summarize your post:
- My RescueTime data *proves* I'm a hot-shot developer.
- I opt-in to receive job offers from top technology companies.
- They get to send offers to a pre-screened group of targeted devs.
- I remain anonymous unless I want to pursue an offer.
- I score an awesome job with a company I already love.
Seems like a nice process to get around the pre-screening aspect of the recruiting process. And I bet it would work well for occupations like "developer", "web designer", etc.
Just don't spam users or give out personal information to companies w/o permission.
- bfioca 16y agoGood points. Some of the thinking behind this is inspired by an old site I worked on in 2006 which let you pick tags that represented your skills. This is better because you don't have to pick, we should be able to derive them. That project was engineering focused because that's what we knew best. This is definitely going to start that way since we can manually check that any results make sense.
- fname 16y agoI guess my only problem would be that this really shuts down users that aren't able to install RescueTime on their work PCs due to company security policies. These may be the hot-shot types that are actively seeking a new role and the relative data would be missing for these users unless they do moonlighting of some sort after hours where RescueTime can monitor that data.
- mckoss 16y agoCome to think of it - I'm locked out because I use Linux all day and there is not a good data collector on Linux!