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Re:What's wrong with HR? on Monday January 23, 2012 @10:11AM (#3500580)
Any idea about how to solve this problem? Recruiters cannot do that: Most of them just add another layer between candidates and hiring managers, usually because of lack of a tech background and deep understanding of the business' needs. Any suggestions? Any HR people out there?

What's wrong with HR?

I keep of hearing of candidates trying to get in touch with hiring managers and hiring managers trying to bypass HR. It seems that way too often HR has the last - negative - word even when it comes to hire technically adept but poorly socially-talented employees, let alone the cases in which CVs go directly to /dev/null. What's your experience?

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Re:Startup in private beta needs co-founder on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:32AM (#3186346)
I added a short description at the top of the discussion. I've just generalized and extended privacy settings that Facebook and Google+ offer for content residing within their platforms. On the one hand it's possible to assign permissions to web content not embedded in a social utility, on the other, I can provide degree-of-separation ranking of the content users have created, for example comments/reviews. So, out of the hundreds (or thousands) hotel reviews on Tripadvisor, you could get just a bunch, written by people close to you (in a social-network degree-of-separation sense). If I could only get Tripadvisor on board...
Re:Startup in private beta needs co-founder on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:22AM (#3186324)
In a nutshell, it's a document db coupled to a graph db to provide degree-of-separation based permissions on whatever users want to place on the web. I'm just extending Facebook's privacy settings to web content sitting outside of Facebook.
Re:Startup in private beta needs co-founder on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:14AM (#3186305)
Yes, I'm based in Zurich, Switzerland and very willing to relocate.

Startup in private beta needs co-founder

I'm working by myself on this project: zeel.ch I launched the private beta a few days ago and I badly need a co-founder to help me out with marketing/PR. Having also a hacker on board would be great. Is anybody interested?

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