I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads
A little off topic... but I love this because it gives me an idea.I've been looking at LinkedIn with some immensely negative feelings for some time now. I've always wished someone would just disrupt the hell out of them, because they don't deserve the near-monopolistic position they're in. They just don't care about their users!And before someone says, "well [pushes up glasses] their real users are recruiters that they sell $20k/year seats to their search tool". Yeah, as a hiring manager I've tried using it. Awful! :)And jobs boards are nothing new, I guess, but something feels really nice about how much bigger these "Who is Hiring?" threads are getting on HN. Maybe we really do need a jobs-centric "social network" for industry verticals. Beyond terrible UX and general disrespect, LinkedIn also just doesn't do enough with their data to make it useable. Maybe that's because it's just too hard to do for every job and industry out there.And maybe that next-gen professionals' social network can be the first open and free one?Or maybe I'm just wishing too hard for something that can't/won't be done.