I help make http://yesgraph.com a competitor to TalentBin. Their approach is to get your company's network indexed, and let recruiters search that network.
This doesn't make sense for a few reasons:
1- you are a better judge of your relationships than a recruiter
2- it's a bit weird exposing all your contacts to your company's hiring team.
Recruiters spend a lot of time spelunking into these relationships, when there is a much better way.
YesGraph follows the same referral recruiting mission, but gets employees involved. Here is an example job for a software engineer. You can connect to Facebook and LinkedIn to get your network, and then see some contacts to make referrals. No one is contacted in the process, this is just an example job: https://www.yesgraph.com/job/i/r3AG-5-m6bx5CqzsJBFeT0/g
In less than a minute, you can be more productive than a recruiter in hours. That's because you know your contacts much better than they do. Oh, and we don't hand over all your contacts to the company. We only show if you're connected to a referral.
Overall though, I think FirstRound's content is really great. You can learn a lot from the article.
Feel free to get in touch with more questions: ivan@yesgraph.com
This doesn't make sense for a few reasons:
Recruiters spend a lot of time spelunking into these relationships, when there is a much better way.YesGraph follows the same referral recruiting mission, but gets employees involved. Here is an example job for a software engineer. You can connect to Facebook and LinkedIn to get your network, and then see some contacts to make referrals. No one is contacted in the process, this is just an example job: https://www.yesgraph.com/job/i/r3AG-5-m6bx5CqzsJBFeT0/g
In less than a minute, you can be more productive than a recruiter in hours. That's because you know your contacts much better than they do. Oh, and we don't hand over all your contacts to the company. We only show if you're connected to a referral.
Overall though, I think FirstRound's content is really great. You can learn a lot from the article.
Feel free to get in touch with more questions: ivan@yesgraph.com