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Re:Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @04:53PM (#6214180)
> I don't like the space for one major reason (and job hunting is isomorphic with dating): to optimize making money you have to fail to deliver on the expectations of those for whom you're matchmaking.

For job hunting (but probably not dating), its at least conceivable that you can structure the charge model to one where one or the other party (or both) is paying for success in making a match (basically, that's what lots of non-web-based employment "matchmaking" services of various kinds do), so that you can, in fact, align customer satisfaction with profit maximization.

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Re:Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? by nostrademons on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @07:09PM (#6215043)
Another approach is to do something like take a cut of the first year's salary or difference between the first year's salary and what the jobhunter was previously getting. That conditions success not only on making a match but on making a good match, as you get paid virtually nothing if an employee gets hired but then gets fired 2 weeks later. Many recruiting firms take this approach.
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