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I wanted to make an app to make job searching easier. It's a pain in the ass on both side and imo current tools on the market suck.

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fallingknife|3 years ago

Is this really a problem that can be fixed by an app? It seems more like a human behavior issue to me. There is a filter, and people are trying to get through it. It's adversarial, and automating the process makes it easier to game, which is why those solutions have not been adopted.

SuoDuanDao|3 years ago

I think it could, in theory. I've had the idea of approaching it more like a sorting problem. Scrape social media of the candidates and the company, use NLP to provide a 'cultural fit' metric that circumvents the interview process...

snarkypixel|3 years ago

I think the problem is how the vast majority of inbound job requests are spam or irrelevant, while at the same time there are a few gems out there that can't seem to reach the right candidates.

beranabus|3 years ago

https://xkcd.com/927/

snarkypixel|3 years ago

lol :) I have a new take on it that I haven't seen yet, but yeah it seems like such a crowded space not sure I want to get into this mess.

onemiketwelve|3 years ago

this has been done a hundred times since it's the low hanging fruit that every engineer has gone through. The biggest pain at this moment in time as someone who's searching is that I have to hand build a table in notion of:

1. hiring freezes from twitter/blind 2. specific insurance providers from corporate info/ glassdoor 3. salary ranges from levels.fyi/glassdoor 4. specific roles and tech stack from google jobs/glassdoor 5. finding refering relationships through linkdin/blind 6. general company reviews, work life balance, from glassdoor/blind 7. then the actual application through the company website

It's a huge pain in the ass to hand-populate and research. Every platform has a piece of the puzzle but it's not in once place.