[srconstantin]

www.whitetruffle.com is the best I've found so far.

It matches based on skills and a few other attributes (like location and whether you have a US visa.) I've talked to them, since this is a subject close to my heart and I'm curious, and they're planning on adding a more detailed questionnaire and a little machine learning.

Right now they're restricted to New York and the Bay Area and they're focused on engineering positions, mostly at startups. But they do a pretty darn good job. I'm on there, and I get a job offer every few weeks or so, many from excellent companies.

[tutufan]

Thanks!

I think there's a real opportunity here for someone who can do this well. The current system works okay when you're just looking for a warm body with something dreary and obvious like "15 years of Java". But it's terrible for trying to match people who just f*cking love technology (and have the corresponding broad and idiosyncratic skillsets) to matching opportunities.

[srconstantin]

Oh, I think so too. For a while that was what I wanted to work on, except that I figured Whitetruffle were too good to compete with.

One critical part of a business like that is connections with the recruiting industry, because you're essentially asking employers to let you serve as their recruiter, and you need to build trust. You can't just build the site and wait for people to come. Whitetruffle got that part right: their founder is a former recruiter.