[bilsbie]

I’m thinking the who’s hiring works reasonably well but the other two: freelancers, and wants to be hired are pretty worthless (for job seekers)

Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[joshstrange]

Of the 6 people I hired over the last 3 months:

3: responded to the who is hiring post

1: contacted me based on a comment I made on an unrelated thread

2: from who wants to be hired that I reached out to

In total I reached out to about 30 people from “who wants to be hired”, I heard back from 19 of them, 9 of them went on to interview (the others had already found jobs, I went back a few months looking - at least 1 of my hires had only posted 4 months ago), and I hired 2 of them.

Across all sources I interviewed 30 people (between 1-4 interviews depending on how far they got, around 70 interviews total) and hired 6.

I’m not sure if you think that proves or disproves your point, just wanted to provide the data.

[Arubis]

I've found a few clients through the Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer posts over the years. It's not a huge contributor to my pipeline, but it's not zero.

[mavelikara]

I have hired 4 engineers from “Who Wants To Be Hired” threads.

[bilsbie]

Interesting. How did you chose, just the skills you were looking for?

[mavelikara]

Yes. I emailed them if the listed skills and location matched the job I was hiring