[danielvaughn]

What I'd really love to see is a way to find candidates via their former employers. As a CTO who recruits in a specific industry, I need to find employees who used to work at companies A, B, C.

[warrenm]

sidebar - if your hiring criteria demands people who've worked at A,B,C companies before (either one, multiple, or all) ... you're artificially limiting yourself to a tiny portion of the potential candidate pool

[warrenm]

Doesn't LinkedIn search more-or-less accomplish this? Look for people who have worked for J, Q, and U companies?

[Mezzie]

This is very industry dependent. Some industries make heavy use of LinkedIn, but others never touch it.

For example, if they need educators, LI is pretty useless.

[htrp]

Not very well.... even when you pay for their recruiter packages.

[danielvaughn]

maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I find it to be pretty difficult to search by that dimension