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Ask HN: Ideas to reach experienced, but unemployed professionals

3 points by mikescoffield ↗ HN
Please lend me your ingenuity. I'm trying to reach the market of business professionals w/ 5+ years of experience, but are currently unemployed. Ideally, I'd like to find people in the following business functions: corp marketing, corp strategy, biz dev, supply chain/logistics/sourcing, and corp finance.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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[dead] PythonDeveloper
It would seem to me that you want ACTIVE unemployed candidates, not ALL unemployed candidates, right? I mean, who wants candidates that are convinced they won't find work and unwilling to engage?

That said, one passive method is to start linkedin groups for your targets. You could start vertical groups, targeting the specialty (biz dev, finance, etc.) or a broader "corporate career finding tips" group that might catch some outside your defined targets, but generally hits your mark.

You could also contact the professional groups that these people generally belong to and ask for either a targeted list to communicate with. Granted, more expensive than the previous idea, but faster to implement.

You could also use this group (and others like it) to mine for candidates: http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?companyId=1134279...

Cheers!

sbhatla
Can you share why you want to reach them? Give a little, get a lot.
seanccox
I'd like to echo that sentiment.
mikescoffield
Sure. I'm working on a startup that's a marketplace for corporate business documents (e.g. business frameworks, financial models, presentation templates). The marketplace is based on the principle that companies/employees waste a lot of time/effort/$ recreating the same documents and redoing the same analyses.

I'd like to reach out to experienced professionals and offer them the proposition of joining my marketplace as sellers. I would like them to have worked for 5+ yrs, so they have the skills and business insights to build quality, relevant documents. I think my value proposition is more attractive to unemployed folks, since they're in need of money and have time on hand to create documents.

Let me know if you need any more detail.

Here is the site: http://flevy.com

maximgsaini
I know companies can get profiles of people looking for jobs through certain job search websites. Can you try and get them?

Are you looking for an easier way out? Or a more 'mass' method?

mikescoffield
Do you know what the process is for getting those profiles? Does getting profiles also include a way to contact them?

I would prefer a mass method.

Thanks for the suggestion.