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Great point! Glad to see other skeptics already arrived. I'd love to see a concept like this work but it is very difficult to truly align the incentives betwee
by rajacombinator 9y ago
Great point! Glad to see other skeptics already arrived.
I'd love to see a concept like this work but it is very difficult to truly align the incentives between recruiters and candidates or companies. Like you said it's just like real estate, a turnover game where the broker doesn't really care about optimal outcomes for the transacting parties.
That said this could still add a lot of value for students - I certainly had no clue about career paths when I was in school. So I hope they figure out a way to make it work for everyone.
- anonymous5133 9y agoIt is only good for students that struggle with finding work. Maybe foreign students or students that are very smart intellectually but are weak in social/interviewing skills. For most people (that tech companies/professional companies want to hire), they already have the skills needed to market themselves.
- kevintxwu 9y agoI said this a little earlier in the thread, but I would definitely say plenty of students we work with already have some of the skills needed to market themselves and they'll do fine on their own, but job seeking is rarely a binary of you're either fine or you're not. Outcomes from job seeking fall on a spectrum from underemployed to dream job and our goal is to help get you an outcome that's at least 7% better than what you would've got on your own.