The main objective of the product is to help job seekers identify which companies are worth spending time for sending an open sollicitation.
75% of the job market is "hidden" (jobs that were filled without the company ever posting a job ad). We help the job seekers to identify this hidden job market.
I find it to be a tool to find and research prospective employees. I've hired multiple programmers from the site; some I found on LinkedIn, some I've looked up more information on someone who sent me their resume.
Like most tools, they are largely worthless unless you know how to use them properly...
Probably to drive sign-ups on their platform by job seekers. It's a metric that they can show to investors that their business is providing a valuable service.
I can't tell if it's a recruiting agency disguised as a service or really for the benefit of job seekers. They advertise that 60% of their candidates make it to an on-site.
Either way though, very cool and exactly what I was thinking, so thanks for sharing.
Founder here. Happy to answer your queries about this product.
Hiring and job search takes way too much time. Most of the bottleneck is at the screening stage for companies, and getting a foot in the door for applicants. This is an attempt towards solving it, although right now our product is focused on the businesses.
They solve the problem of having to manually go through 1000s of applicants. Most jobs these days have over 100 people applying. This software allows the system to easily get rid of unqualified (whatever you set the criteria at) applicants automatically.
I am sure there are many other uses like applicant tracking, job posting, compliance with discrimination laws, etc.
I see it as a useful tool for culling resumes from Monster-type job sites. Submit a job offer, and candidates apply to it by solving a couple of easyish tests. You wouldn't use it to interview promising candidates, but to assist you in filtering out the promising ones from the rest. Think of it as one step above FizzBuzz.
Isn't a product like this tied to the viability of the job market, as in when the job market has a downturn your potential customers are less include to buy?
I think this app is meant to lessen the load on the hiring process in a way that will help a company get a list of people that have at least the base required knowledge for the job, before calling them up for traditional interviews. Imagine a company getting 300+ job applications, someone needs to go through the CVs and pick people to call on the interviews, and even then a good chunk of those people simply don't have even the base knowledge (at least in my experience, the CV can lie a lot), also some of the people that actually do show promise will be discarded simply because someone didn't want to bother with their CV (this happens a lot as well). I think this is meant to replace that "weeding out" process so that companies get people they can call for an in-person interview (lowering the time and cost for the first stage of the interview process ) while people that have the base required (required by the company) knowledge, do get a shot at the job.
Arriving a little late in the conversation and with a little of shameless promotion... we are a small startup from Copenhagen who is about to launch a product to fill this exactly niche. Our launch is scheduled for next Sunday, but since this thread seems to fit our audience let's launch it now: https://www.voorjob.com. (We still have rough edges to fix and text to review but the MVP is usable at this point.)
Our idea is to offer a tool that - at first - aid the job seeker to keep track of job applications, cover letter and CV variations and also provide some insights about the process. Or saying in another form, we want to give you a understanding of your job search. For later we are aiming to have more and profound insights, allow the user to compare his journey with similar population and maybe do some predictions before hand.
Our product is for the final user, the person living the experience of sending 100's of job applications, we felt that the market for applicant tracking system is now really widespread, and we are aiming to give back some control to the applicant.
Feel free to check our page: https://www.voorjob.com we are really interested in any feedback that you can provide given you recent experience in job seeking.
Ps. If anyone have doubts we would be really happy to answer back, but since this is literally our launch, first we are going to drink a bottle (or two) of champagne :D
I use it strictly for job hunting. I receive a lot of offers there and it's a great way to contact recruiters. That was its premise, but they've been working hard to turn it into a social platform.
> Unless you're looking for a job or are recruiting it's pretty worthless.
But if you're looking for a job or are recruiting it can pretty valuable. It has its purpose - one it solves reasonably well. It answers questions like:
"Do I know anyone who can make SuperWidgets using MagicTechnology?"
"I'm interested in working at ABC Corp - did I used to work with someone who can get me a foot in the door?"
We're working on a reverse job board product where candidates will be able to list themselves and have companies approach them, so hopefully that will help a bit too!
Awesome idea! Great companies should love this. It attracts passive job applicants - people currently employed but looking for a better job or company. Passive job seekers are often deterred from looking online because it takes so much time to go through all the irrelevant job posts to find the few they really want. Small companies that are great places to work but haven't received awards or press attention get lost in the mix on job boards. Now they can use this tool to stand out. Benefits both sides.
75% of the job market is "hidden" (jobs that were filled without the company ever posting a job ad). We help the job seekers to identify this hidden job market.
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