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Ask HN: Global Employee Exchange platform
I'm working on a platform that enables companies to groom their future leaders via short term employee exchange programs.
These programs would not be more than 3 months long and individuals will get to work full time in an entirely new place, with new people and learn new things.
This will help companies address seasonality as well.
Currently, such opportunities / projects are floated intra company or by governments.
What's your take on this idea?
- tbirrell 9y agoWhy would I want to receive X number of "new" employees and spend time training them on my systems/architecture just to have them disappear after 3 months?
- hellorahul 9y agoLet's consider an example. A startup may not afford a CFO / CMO, but can get someone via this platform without long term commitment. The incoming individual may be a Sr. Manager or Director at a larger organisation and may be interested in this opportunity to learn how to run the entire show and see how agile startups work. In a non-competing category, people say from US can go to a company in China to learn about a new tech, or vice versa.
- tbirrell 9y agoSo basically this will be a temp agency for higher-level positions?
- hellorahul 9y agoYou can say that. Though, higher-level is a relative term. One company's Sr. Manager can potentially become CXO in a relatively smaller company. Idea is to allow employees to have working sabbaticals and groom by working in diverse cultures