[jedberg]

Usually when someone asks me for a recommendation, I ask them what kind of skills they are looking for and their preferred contact info, and then if I have a friend who might be interested I send my friend the contact info of the person hiring.

So maybe you might want to consider flipping your process. Make it so I can see what skills the companies are looking for and then make it easy to send a message to my friend with their contact info, in a way where you can trace the recommendation back to me.

[amitsy]

Interesting. So instead of recommending your friends, you would be recommending best-suited companies to your friends? I have seen a few of my friends do that when they are helping someone with a job switch.

[jedberg]

Exactly. Then I don't have to give up my friend's contact info without permission.

[thunkshift1]

Thats good point.. what was the name of that company that shared the candidate assessment data with companies without their permission?

[InvaderFizz]

I do exactly this. I get pings from time to time for a position that is a good fit for one of my friends, but does not interest me personally.

I'm far enough in my career that I can be picky and I don't mind the job search taking 3-6 months of mostly passive search.