There's something there, although I've thought a lot about this too and here's my free idea for @vs2370 or LinkedIn: let me control how many job opportunities I receive (unlimited, 1/day, 1/week, 1/mo, etc), then auction off those slots to companies/recruiters.
Really, what I want is the best offer every so often to keep my head in the market, and (I assume) the amount recruiters would pay to contact me is basically meaningless to me but nontrivial at scale for the platform.
Or maybe Dutch auction and send me the top 3, then I can ignore them if I want but I can at least pick my favorite(s) to give some signal back upstream for what kinds of jobs I might actually be looking for (or let me "thumbs up" any that are particularly interesting, etc), even if I don't actually respond to that individual contact.
thanks for sharing your thoughts. Its a great idea.
One thing that I was thinking was to provide ability to recruiters to push jobs to my job stream but based on my filters/preferences a recommendation engine will sort them and also collapse them if they are irrelevant(like some quora answers) .. that way limiting how many jobs I would take in my feed is also one of the parameters
Really, what I want is the best offer every so often to keep my head in the market, and (I assume) the amount recruiters would pay to contact me is basically meaningless to me but nontrivial at scale for the platform.
Or maybe Dutch auction and send me the top 3, then I can ignore them if I want but I can at least pick my favorite(s) to give some signal back upstream for what kinds of jobs I might actually be looking for (or let me "thumbs up" any that are particularly interesting, etc), even if I don't actually respond to that individual contact.