Tell HN: PSA about getting hired via Stack Overflow

2 points by aidos 6y ago ↗ HN

We've just signed up for the SO hiring platform in order to contact willing candidates about a role we have going. In the process we've discovered that candidates actually need to go out of their way to enable a link to their SO profile (profile -> developer story -> edit top right -> pick network -> SO).

As both a hirer and a candidate this came as a pretty big surprise to me. It seems a shame to have built up a reputation on SO to not be able to use it when you're trying to get hired.

I thought I'd point it out in case anyone else was using the platform and hadn't enable that flag.

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Max_Horstmann 6y ago ↗

I believe what you're referring to are the required steps to create a public link to a developer story.

This isn't required in order to appear in search results by recruiters. As long as a user has their job search status set to either "Actively looking right now" or "Open, but not actively looking", they will be included in candidate search.

(source: I work for SO)