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I'll reiterate a desire for someone to actually make an OkCupid for Hiring. Both sides answer questions and get matched. (If this exists please let me know)

davedx 8y ago
I just played around with KeyValues (also posted in this thread), and it looks like it takes an approach in that kind of area. What do you think of it? https://www.keyvalues.com https://www.keyvalues.com
philip1209 8y ago
Working on it at https://moonlightwork.com https://moonlightwork.com. We treat work as a matching problem. We have an application process, but we accept every developer and designer who has 2 years of experience and a complete profile.
oriolid 8y ago
Funny, the first message I got on actual OkCupid was from their recruiting. My profile did have one passing mention about programming, maybe it was that or maybe some values / attitude / some other thing they caught.
aries1980 8y ago
We tried at Intern Avenue, hammered it for 5 years. IA was a startup which created a self-service platform to find an ideal early-stage talents (interns and graduates) for businesses, using machine-learning. We had a good success and high retention rate at smaller size businesses, especially in non-STEM sectors, such as marketeers or journalists. We made many mistakes, but the biggest one was to assume that the recruitment decision makers in medium-size businesses are interested in the hiring process. That's not the case. We had to realise, for these internal recruiters hiring is a pain, an extra mile above their day-to-day responsibilities. Hence they hire recruiters. You can't apply ML on the behaviour and preference of the recruiter and expect an optimal output for someone else.
- iandanforth 8y ago
  Could you say more? (If there's a post-mortem post on this I'd love to read it.) When I'm in a lead role or participate in hiring I'm definitely interested in the hiring process. I'm not sure how setting up a job profile (i.e. answering qualitative questions about what I value, what the team values, etc) would be much more work than writing the job description in the first place. I suspect I'm not fully understanding your statement though.
prattl 8y ago
I work for a company that is trying to change how hiring and recruiting is done in the legal industry (https://hireanesquire.com/ https://hireanesquire.com/), and we are always comparing ourselves to OkCupid in terms of how we should be matching our candidates to our jobs. This analogy holds true. In fact, we recently launched our fit score assessment system which essentially boils down to (you guessed it) both sides answering questions. Dating websites are actually really good at matching people, and recruiters can learn a lot from them.

davedx 8y ago

I just played around with KeyValues (also posted in this thread), and it looks like it takes an approach in that kind of area. What do you think of it? https://www.keyvalues.com https://www.keyvalues.com

philip1209 8y ago

Working on it at https://moonlightwork.com https://moonlightwork.com. We treat work as a matching problem. We have an application process, but we accept every developer and designer who has 2 years of experience and a complete profile.

oriolid 8y ago

Funny, the first message I got on actual OkCupid was from their recruiting. My profile did have one passing mention about programming, maybe it was that or maybe some values / attitude / some other thing they caught.

aries1980 8y ago

We tried at Intern Avenue, hammered it for 5 years. IA was a startup which created a self-service platform to find an ideal early-stage talents (interns and graduates) for businesses, using machine-learning. We had a good success and high retention rate at smaller size businesses, especially in non-STEM sectors, such as marketeers or journalists. We made many mistakes, but the biggest one was to assume that the recruitment decision makers in medium-size businesses are interested in the hiring process. That's not the case. We had to realise, for these internal recruiters hiring is a pain, an extra mile above their day-to-day responsibilities. Hence they hire recruiters. You can't apply ML on the behaviour and preference of the recruiter and expect an optimal output for someone else.

iandanforth 8y ago
Could you say more? (If there's a post-mortem post on this I'd love to read it.) When I'm in a lead role or participate in hiring I'm definitely interested in the hiring process. I'm not sure how setting up a job profile (i.e. answering qualitative questions about what I value, what the team values, etc) would be much more work than writing the job description in the first place. I suspect I'm not fully understanding your statement though.

prattl 8y ago

I work for a company that is trying to change how hiring and recruiting is done in the legal industry (https://hireanesquire.com/ https://hireanesquire.com/), and we are always comparing ourselves to OkCupid in terms of how we should be matching our candidates to our jobs. This analogy holds true. In fact, we recently launched our fit score assessment system which essentially boils down to (you guessed it) both sides answering questions. Dating websites are actually really good at matching people, and recruiters can learn a lot from them.