Re:Recruiting Humans with HTTP Headers
by jgrahamc on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:20PM
(#7400321)
While we haven’t yet closed the loop and hired anyone from this method
That's the key measure. To be honest, this is such an old technique that it doesn't seem especially cool or interesting. We've found writing good blog content and working on open source to be effective at finding good people.
Re:Recruiting Humans with HTTP Headers
by aalpbalkan on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:11PM
(#7400247)
This was cool in 2008, maybe even earlier. It's not anything fancy anymore. I was able to view headers of pages when I was 15 and it is probably the worst way of getting applications. Instead, put up a few problems you had while development of your product and get solutions to your recruiting email. See if people can come up with similar or better things. This will make you find better engineers. Headers will get you script kiddies.
Re:Recruiting Humans with HTTP Headers
by EGreg on Friday March 14, 2014 @02:14PM
(#7400724)
How about an X-Human recruiting message with a LINK to some problems you have?
Very few people will see that link and it would be your onboarding process for new hires and it will save you time reading resumes and interviewing candidates.
That's the key measure. To be honest, this is such an old technique that it doesn't seem especially cool or interesting. We've found writing good blog content and working on open source to be effective at finding good people.
http://www.humanheaders.org/ and https://github.com/randomdrake/human-headers/
randomdrake actually built a few browser extensions that will read out the headers and show them to you if they exist, which is pretty cool.
Very few people will see that link and it would be your onboarding process for new hires and it will save you time reading resumes and interviewing candidates.
X-Human: Work for us! {first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}@startup.com
[0] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3916173
http://higg.im/humans.txt
Mine is nothing special, just a simple quote. There is even a whole site that crawls these files.
http://humanstxt.org/Standard.html
Some of them are gold. Get ready to see lots of ASCII art :)