Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by floppydisk on Monday December 03, 2012 @02:36PM
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Hooray! Now that recruiter who really wants to offer me a world class position(tm)(r)(c) at a unnamed world class company(tm)(r)(c), just like Facebook but located in my metro area, can call me at dinner time to inform me of the good news!
Oh, I have to install an app to my phone for this to work. Phew, still safe! Just more cross-service account linking, nothing to see here, move along.
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by potatolicious on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:26PM
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I really dislike "mystery meat employer" recruiter contacts. Just like charities, if I can't research it myself I'm not even a tiny bit interested.
I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by floppydisk on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:32PM
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I had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on LinkedIn.
To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a % commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by scott_to_s on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:48PM
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Word. That reminds me, I need delete my LinkedIn account - spammy as hell, and wilfully obstructive when it comes to offering levers to opt out of stuff.
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by mikemoka on Monday December 03, 2012 @02:11PM
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plingm users can call for free, this is just clever marketing, it is like if skype (free skype to skype calls) lets you check if your facebook contacts are skype users and then brags that facebook users can now call for free, seems legit :)
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by eungyu on Monday December 03, 2012 @02:45PM
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I would be surprised to see this call service take off. Isn't the whole notion of using social network like LinkedIn (asynchronously) phone call (synchronous and disrupting) alternative in the first place?
Oh, I have to install an app to my phone for this to work. Phew, still safe! Just more cross-service account linking, nothing to see here, move along.
I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.
To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a % commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
Update: Done!