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Internal blog pages with descriptions and stuff is what I've used before, and what I think most people use, which makes me think there's a market here for a goo
by petervandijck 16y ago
Internal blog pages with descriptions and stuff is what I've used before, and what I think most people use, which makes me think there's a market here for a good tool, because, at least for myself, those solutions never really worked well. As an example, I once invited someone to apply to a job that I had rejected a few months earlier. As someone wrote here earlier: if people are using spreadsheets (or wiki pages) for problem X, it's a market.
This would add spit, fit and finish. Make it easier to use. Add in easily publishing a page with a job description where people can apply/upload resume. Add an email address where you forward applications that then get automatically organized. Etc. In other words: it would add ease of use and features specific for hiring. (Still trying to determine which features exactly, which is what this post is for, but I've felt the pain myself and I'm sure many people have, so I see the problem part of this fairly clearly. Trying to figure out what a good solution would be.)
Existing recruiting software is aimed at HR and "recruiting". This would be aimed at people like (presumably) you and me, who just need to hire a few people for their team, who want to create their own process. I'm not "recruiting". I'm building a team!
Target market: people like me, ie. I would first go for people in tech firms hiring tech/ux people, because that is what I know best. We all read the "how to hire x" posts, it's not easy. The tools would make it easy to quickly set up a process etc.
Existing recruiting software is aimed at HR, at large companies, in other words, it's "enterprise" crap.
- jdp23 16y agothat makes a lot of sense, thanks. one area that seems ripe for improvement is after resumes flood in, taking an initial pass and marking which ones you want others to give feedback on, and then tracking email and IM exchanges with and about the applicants. at Qworky we used tags in a shared gmail account along with cut-and-pasting the IM logs for this which worked okay but even when we just had a couple of jobs open we messed up several times.