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Who downvoted this? And why?

I certainly didn't but it was more than likely because they are a recruitment company - http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/who-we-are.html

Yup, we're a recruitment company (amongst other things). However, we're very specialized. We focus on international IT recruiting where companies are willing to sponsor you for a work permit (or the local equivalent). This is because my wife and I are both serial expats and we believe that people should be able to live anywhere in the world they want (we're not saying it's practical, but it's still our dream).

Thus, since we have a lot of background in this area, I'm moderately well-known in the IT world and I keep getting companies contacting me to help them find people (because of my "how to become an expat" blog http://www.overseas-exile.com/), we decided that we'd create a company to help people live their dreams.

We're proud of the fact that we help people move to other countries. We're particularly happy with one young developer who escaped a violence-filled, high unemployment country. Of course, since we're "just recruiters", we're stereotyped and there's no easy way to shake that, but I'm proud of the work we do.

Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm certainly not saying you deserved to be downvoted. I'm an ex-agency recruiter and I know better than most how much hate recruiters get on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753958

I was simply shedding some light on why I think people are downvoting you.

That's a fair point and a very enlightening post. Thanks for sharing it :)

So far we've not really gotten much direct hate from folks, but it happens from time to time. I suspect the fact that we're trying to help people move to other countries might make us look a bit nicer, but it's tough to say.

My first guess is that the downvoter(s) think this is for booking.com...I initially did (but I didn't downvote, because on second look, it isn't clear).

There are a lot of bad stories about working at booking.com...one of those things you don't even know how you know, but you realize it must get brought up a lot for that association (and only that association) to exist with the company.

edit: now I did downvote it for posting a duplicate where a simple list of countries would have sufficed.

> edit: now I did downvote it for posting a duplicate where a simple list of countries would have sufficed.

Um, uh, er. Yeah, you're right, darn it. I didn't think about that (duh), but in retrospect, it should have been obvious to me :(

I won't make that mistake again. Thanks for pointing it out!

He doesn't actually say who is hiring because it's an agency and has posted multiple times to the thread.

Not what we want on here at all. The Who is mightily important and he won't say.

It's an abuse of this thread.

If you take a look at the ads, instead of skimming them, you'll see each ad is for a different company in a different city. So it makes sense to have multiple posts and it is in no way spamming.

Just consider a single post saying "Hey, we have several positions in several places in the world", that does not convey any information.

They are trying to be helpful and you're replying with "screw it, they're recruiters".

Disclaimer: I use their services. They are in no way a shitty recruiter service and in the first e-mail exchange they say which is the company.

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