On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Ben Tilly wrote: > There are other ways to address that. As a random one, you could > publicly archive the list of requested job postings and the response > on each one. That way companies can look through it and see that > there is no bias.
The failure mode that I can see here are headhunters who specifically send postings knowing they will be rejected, but boston.pm will still be advertising the postings in the public "reject" page. (it would be a similar problem to spam, who cares if the response rate is low if the cost per acquisition is low. > Unless they are really clued in to Boston.PM, they will not know that > Uri is a headhunter. If they are clued in, they know enough about Uri > to not worry. Where is the problem? There are a couple of other ways that an evil headhunter who was in charge of the boston.pm job postings could use the position to their own private advantage. (I'm not talking about uri here, but a headhunter who is actually evil.) * If he or she had a couple of potential candidates for their own job listings, they could delay posting a different good job to the list until the candidate accepted the job. (encouraging the job candidate down the path that would give evil headhunter a financial advantage.) * If a headhunter had a job listing from a company and evil headhunter had received the same job opening notice from the company, evil headhunter could make sure that he or she submitted all of their candidates before posting the rival headhunter's posting to boston.pm. * If the evil headhunter was also a competent perl programmer, he or she could apply for the job (or suggest their contracting services) as competent perl programmer and then once finding out who the company was beg out of the hiring process and recommend their own recruitment services. * When responses or questions wind up going to the moderator rather than the headhunter posting the job (c'mon anyone who has done any sort of online moderation experienced receiving the most ridiculous questions) the evil headhunter/moderator can respond to the messages as headhunter rather than moderator. These are just a few that I could think of off the top of my head. I'm sure if I spent more time think of more or better ways a combined job posting moderator and headhunter could abuse their position. (but I probably won't. I'll probably find some probably some entirely unrelated system and examine it for potential flaws. Its what I do.) Again, I'm not saying that uri would do anything like this. (Uri is too strong of a personality to be a force for evil. Evil has to be much more subtle or else it will drive away the people it wants to commit evil upon.) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
