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0 pointsktsmith14y ago0 comments

No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first. Working for hustlebee might be my dream job but if I were offered $0.50/hr then you could probably imagine what my response would be. No check box on a recruiters sign up page is going to change that. More importantly it's almost certainly not binding and so the applicants have no reason to not check the box. If I were launching this site I'd be more worried about how this would hurt the number of people that take you seriously. Going back to the first point, if I'm not going to agree to accept a job without seeing the terms I'm also not going to work with a recruiter that requires me to accept any potential offer.

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retube14y ago

> No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first

Quite. I list a few obvious reasons why a candidate wont want to take a job in a thread above - but this is not to mention the Service Agreement / Employment Contract which could be pages and pages of detailed legalese and, particularily with startups, could have lots of contentious stuff with stock options and so on.

Having your USP as "the candidate promises to accept your job offer" is unreasonable, unrealistic, impractical and most likely unlawful.

ktsmithOP14y ago

Agreed.

There's a lot of room for disruption in recruiting as many agencies/recruiters have poor/unethical practices. Unfortunately this misses the mark for me as an employer and would scare me away if I were looking for work as an unreasonable requirement.

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