Hiring is about awkward tension between "is a trusted referral" and "has specific experience/skills I need." Solve that and you're a unicorn
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small-scale "guild"-type arrangements where members vet each other internally. The integrity of th group is preserved & can be marketed
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That also creates moral hazard within the guild and referrals become more about candidate than hiring party.
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as to moral hazard: I'd want to be very careful conducting myself lest I be ejected from the guild, right?
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Guilds basically turn into unions. That's why they're not really a viable model for 2015.
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The difference with this idea v unions is that the guilds compete against each other.

