My closest friends are true hackers - curious people who love to create and to master tools and systems. It seemed like companies had no way of identifying these people - at the resume stage, they tend to look like crap early in their careers. So this is for them: they are the best, and we're giving companies x-ray vision.
In the computer engineering world, it means something else, similar to "maker", but with deep mastery and unquenchable intellectual curiosity. Lately it has expanded to loosely include people who can "hack" non-information systems.
Only so far as they both use the same sense of the word "hacker".
Companies which are serious about hiring top talent.
We give you an iframe to put on your website, on your jobs page. You add job listings on your HackerHire account and they appear in that iframe. When applications come in, we email you.
We'll import them.
Applicants apply for jobs on your careers page using our iframe. We encourage them to supply additional Gems beyond the standard resume. A resume counts as 25 completion points, and the more Gems added, the better the score.
Gems include peer-reviewed project portfolios, highlights from their GitHub profile, CoderWall profile, Dribbble, GroupTalent, LinkedIn, TaskRabbit… Everyone is different and can employ different Gems to show their best side.
With the peer-reviewed portfolio, we have a chance to ask those peers whether they would work with your candidate in the future - something you won't learn by contacting the candidate's given references.
And it also acts as a filter: candidates who are serious about working for you are more likely to give a complete application.
You end up so much more informed about the true quality, strengths and skills of your applicants.
No, some subset is fine. The company can select some Gems that they'd really like to see.
While both applicants and companies can use the system for free, companies who would like an SLA can purchase an enterprise plan. We also provide limited search-and-contact access to the database, a la LinkedIn.
The biggest one is the Peers & Projects Gem, which is a peer-reviewed portfolio. There's also GitHub (with a highlights reel you make yourself), CoderWall, LinkedIn, Upverter, Twitter (with highlights), Dribbble, HackerNews (with highlights), CodeAcademy, Udacity, Reddit (with highlights), TaskRabbit, Exec.