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How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 2 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that filters out low-effort recruiters
From 2 comments
Love the idea and I'm interested to see if anyone bothers. As you say, if the recruiter cares and isn't playing the numbers game, it's not a huge task for them to go through for…
dasboth on HNWhile I doubt any recruiter will ever take the time to fill this out I love the idea. That said it would take a miracle before I would work with a third party recruiter again and…
joshstrange on HN
Well done
From 1 comment
Well Done!
Emilmikhailov on HN
Objections
Seen as obnoxious and placing a bar candidates at other companies don't face
From 2 comments
I've signed offer letters and hired about 300 people in the last 5 years, and I still consider myself chief recruiter... Two comments: 1) This is obnoxious in the sense that it's…
davidu on HNA good recruiter is worth its weight in gold, I think this is useless against recruiters who are just spamming; because it's a numbers game for them, and they don't have the time…
mpeg on HN
Third-party recruiters rarely have the information asked for
From 2 comments
A vast number of recruiters are not in-house recruiters so they will never have most of this information anyway.
pkaye on HNProbably great specificity, but close to zero sensitivity. I guess thats fine if you have no intention of changing jobs though.
laxatives on HN
Recruiters spamming in volume will not fill out forms
From 2 comments
A good recruiter is worth its weight in gold, I think this is useless against recruiters who are just spamming; because it's a numbers game for them, and they don't have the time…
mpeg on HNWhile I doubt any recruiter will ever take the time to fill this out I love the idea. That said it would take a miracle before I would work with a third party recruiter again and…
joshstrange on HN
Requests
Ask about equity in a way that explains its value
From 2 comments
Personally, both from experience long ago, and from what I gather is the case today with exits being difficult and good ones very rare, I'd make the stock options a "Equity"…
hga on HNI've signed offer letters and hired about 300 people in the last 5 years, and I still consider myself chief recruiter... Two comments: 1) This is obnoxious in the sense that it's…
davidu on HN
Use it to generate better recruiter email templates
From 1 comment
this should rather be used by recruiters to generate an email template that will definitely get more attention and higher response rate...
vishalzone2002 on HN
Add an auto response to recruiters
From 1 comment
I like this idea a lot, do you have an auto response set up in your email or manually send it to them?
whiskykilo on HN
Questions
How many recruiters have filled it out?
From 1 comment
How many recruiters jump through this particular hoop?
opless on HN
What is the green lock at the bottom for?
From 1 comment
What is the green lock at the bottom for?
captn3m0 on HN
Is the Foosball table item positive or negative?
From 1 comment
Is the "Foosball table" item a negative or positive?
michaelochurch on HN