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Great question. I have no answers, but some thoughts. It depends a lot on the job being offered. Soulless job boards are decent when you're looking for fairly
by nudge 16y ago
Great question. I have no answers, but some thoughts.
It depends a lot on the job being offered. Soulless job boards are decent when you're looking for fairly fungible workers, but if you're looking for employee #7 at your startup, no way. So a first thought would be that you could do better by focusing on certain types of jobs. You would be able to tailor your recruiting method, and you would also benefit from a marketing perspective.
If it's programming, I think the online-application-form-including-a-difficult-programming-problem route is pretty good. It weeds out those who can't do what you want them to technically, and also those who aren't motivated by solving difficult problems. It's not the full solution, but it gets you a shortlist.
- ig1 16y agoFor job boards I've been thinking about one of the talks given at #launch48 a couple of weeks ago where they had a UX designer talking about how websites should be an experience. The experience from current job sites is pretty awful, when in actuality it should be the exact opposite. Job boards should be pleasurable and fill you with excitement, they should be more like dating sites, full of potential opportunities that'd you'd love to take. Although how you build a job site like that is a tricky problem, because you have to get the companies posting the jobs to stop being soulless.
- lsc 16y agoOne potential solution: a job board needs to focus on being a place where the potential employees show off. Recruiters (or other employees) can go /find/ people they like rather than waiting for people to come to them.
- kranner 16y agoIf I may self-promote: the application-form-compatible programming-problem bit is exactly what I'm trying to solve with http://codeboff.in/ http://codeboff.in/