Jim Panttaja

I am currently trying to fill two positions. A friend sent me an invitation to Doostang. Doostang represents themselves as an online career community. It is invitation only at the moment, and so I used my invitation to sign up. I looked around and found that they have job listings – and that I could list my jobs.

So – I listed my two jobs, and saw a cool feature that let me add them to Facebook as well. Really cool. Then I received the following email:

Hi Jim,

All of us here at Doostang are excited at the opportunity of helping you find great talent. Due to us catering to the current membership base at Doostang, and the small team we have to develop a better product, we’d appreciate if you can please refrain from posting your software/designer/engineering positions for now. When we have better categorization over the next few months, we will be able to handle these positions. In the meantime, if we can help you with any product management/marketing/business/sales/finance/interns etc. positions, please feel free to post all of these on Doostang.

Please let me know whether you have any questions. I would be delighted to answer them.

Thank you for the opportunity to work with you and for bearing with us!

Nat

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Nat Chambers
Community Relations Manager
Doostang

This is my second web-based bait-and-switch in two days. They want my participation. They want me to add my friends to bolster their network. They want me to add jobs, unless it is the jobs I want to fill at the moment. What was particularly puzzling is that their are engineering jobs listed on the site. And one of their categories is a little weird – but says ‘Product Management and Engineering’. So it seems like they want my participation.

But as I told them in my email – its their football – they can bait-and-switch or make whatever rules they want. But I can be offended – and share that with other potential participants.