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EmployTown Launches

2 points| sbalster | 13 years ago

EmployTown capitalizes on the flip-flop in supply and demand for talent — particularly in the tech industry. Check us out here www.employtown.com. We created a revers job application that focuses on people and not the open slots at companies. Please let us know any feedback that you may have.

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[+] shpen|13 years ago|reply
First thing I notice: the text. It looks terrible in Chrome, at least for me. http://i.snag.gy/bQQwc.jpg
[+] sbalster|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for pointing that out. We will need to make it so it appears better in Chrome.
[+] anigbrowl|13 years ago|reply
True that. Advent Pro is pretty, Exo is...strange.
[+] jcr|13 years ago|reply
The stuff that could be better:

If I'm an employer, why would I want to eliminate job descriptions?

If I'm a job seeker, why would I want a "reverse job application"

What is a "reverse job application"?

The "People are talking" phrase seems trite and insincere.

The exaggerated size of the quotation marks looks wrong. Since the text between the quote marks is smaller, the trailing quote mark is vertically aligned such that it looks like a pair of commas.

Other than the "Login, Signup, and email" links, there's no further information about your company or what you actually do?

Under a normal/modern browser, everything is black, white, and shades of grey save for the "SignUp" link. The result is drab, like a cloudy day.

The good stuff:

Without logging in, your site seems to hold up well under both plain text (terminal) browsers like lynx, and graphical browsers with modified/forced CSS (used by people vision disabilities). It would hold up well for the blind using audio screen readers.

Your HTML source is unusually clean. Nicely Done.

EDIT: Fonts in Firefox 9 on UNIX (OpenBSD) look fine. Fonts in Chrome on UNIX (OpenBSD) also look find, but I use custom fonts in chrome to make things legible.

[+] sbalster|13 years ago|reply
Thank you for the feedback. Building something is challenging and we are always working to improve. I think you brought up some good questions that we will need to address. Do you think a product video would be more beneficial than using text etc?