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Some of those things you can figure out on Glassdoor, though I guess having quantitative metrics are better than reviews from disgruntled employees. I like thi

Some of those things you can figure out on Glassdoor, though I guess having quantitative metrics are better than reviews from disgruntled employees. I like this idea, but unfortunately it hangs on the existence of LinkedIn. If for whatever reason LinkedIn changes its structure in a way that makes it impossible to easily obtain this data, such a service would probably sink. > - What schools did employees go to? What is the education distribution of employees? How would you interpret this information? EDIT: On a somewhat related note, I had a side project a while ago that was kind of the inverse, which was a tool for employers where they could track their employee's LinkedIn activity to determine whether an employee was actively looking for another job or likely to quit soon, allowing employers to preemptively fire employees that didn't have a future with the company. I decided not to finish it because I thought it would be a terrible thing to have exist.

ghostpepper 7y ago
>a tool for employers where they could track their employee's LinkedIn activity to determine whether an employee was actively looking for another job or likely to quit soon, allowing employers to preemptively fire employees that didn't have a future with the company While I applaud you for taking the social/ethical value of your work into consideration, I have to wonder how this even seemed like a good idea in the first place?
- zdragnar 7y ago
  If it were only used by recruiters, that would be a nice tool to improve cold contact outcomes- I still manage to get no shortage of recruiter contacts even though I have virtually no linkedin activity (I don't even log in or browse the site). I'm not really sure how one would go about letting recruiters use it but not HR / managers, though. Very much a double-edged blade.
- ravenstine 7y ago
  > I have to wonder how this even seemed like a good idea in the first place? I don't know. It just seemed like a funny, evil idea that I could test my skills with. I wasn't that intent on actually making a business around it, though I won't pretend like I wouldn't have tried if I thought I could make millions. The person I am now definitely would be totally against such a thing.

ghostpepper 7y ago

>a tool for employers where they could track their employee's LinkedIn activity to determine whether an employee was actively looking for another job or likely to quit soon, allowing employers to preemptively fire employees that didn't have a future with the company While I applaud you for taking the social/ethical value of your work into consideration, I have to wonder how this even seemed like a good idea in the first place?

zdragnar 7y ago
If it were only used by recruiters, that would be a nice tool to improve cold contact outcomes- I still manage to get no shortage of recruiter contacts even though I have virtually no linkedin activity (I don't even log in or browse the site). I'm not really sure how one would go about letting recruiters use it but not HR / managers, though. Very much a double-edged blade.
ravenstine 7y ago
> I have to wonder how this even seemed like a good idea in the first place? I don't know. It just seemed like a funny, evil idea that I could test my skills with. I wasn't that intent on actually making a business around it, though I won't pretend like I wouldn't have tried if I thought I could make millions. The person I am now definitely would be totally against such a thing.