(2009-07-31) Ries Joblink

Eric Ries [designed](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/startup/lessons/learned/~3/X H8bh Mm S Rs A/new-way-to-recruit-for-and-find-startup.html) Job Link as a new play on the Job Market

• as hiring company, post position anonymously (doesn't Craigs List do this?)

• as job seeker, promote yourself anonymously (once a dialogue starts, I think it's direct via email, but you don't have to name yourself as being on the market) (is this important?)

• as recommender of a job seeker, promote them without revealing their name (again, this is a feature?)

Everything goes out as Twitter tweet.

I Commented that this doesn't seem to scale. Will be too-high-volume with no structure... (I guess that's what makes it Minimum Viable Product.) Eric responded: I actually think the broadcast element of it is the least useful part. I hope people will use this to recruit and share jobs/candidates in their own networks, letting retweets etc. carry the word out wider. The world doesn't need another job directory.