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Unfortunately it works both ways as well. I would love to tailor my resume to highlight what makes me awesome for your company and particular problem/domain, bu

Unfortunately it works both ways as well. I would love to tailor my resume to highlight what makes me awesome for your company and particular problem/domain, but so often I see job descriptions that are just lists of buzzwords and some pathetic attempt to sound cool "we have ping pong! (read: I swear we're hip)", "we're looking for a rock-star (read: slave)". Then to top it off, when a hiring manager realizes that he doesn't have time to deal with hiring, he passes it off to a recruiting agency -- something that makes it even harder for me as a job seeker to help sell myself to the company. Am I the only one that hates the secrecy that recruiters use in describing their clients positions? They make it sound like I might possibly be working for the CIA or something with their lack of details on what matters (e.g. Company name so I can research their history and what they need) and they give me an exhaustive list that nobody could ever possibly have had experience with unless they had already worked at the company! No I don't have 10 years experience with $_OBSCURE_TESTING_PLATFORM, but give me a few hours and Google and I can figure it out. But how can I relay that via a resume? Especially one that will be filtered by either a computer or an HR drone that knows nothing other than buzzword bingo. This is an area that is ripe for someone to come in and revolutionize the arena.

idan 16y ago
We decided to focus on the employer side of things at launch, for several reasons: * We have to start somewhere * Easier to ship a tightly-focused product, easier to build a message around it. * Not sure where the revenue is on the candidate side. * Honestly, it's just scratching our itch :) We've given some thought to the candidate side, and hope to do something there in the future, though. You're spot on about the recruiter firms.
- digitallogic 16y ago
  As someone who is looking for a job, I'd be more than willing to shell out a couple of bucks if I knew it would put me in contact with people I'd want to work with. Right now on the candidate side of things it's pretty much the same situation. Go through job listings, send resumes to any that sound interesting, do about 4 phone interviews a week, pass on roughly 3 of them because they either aren't working on something I find interesting, the position itself isn't something I'd enjoy, or my gut tells me to walk away due to the impression I got from the person I talked to. I will pay you to not have to deal with this.
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago
  This may be totally stupid, but couldn't you have a database of companies looking for a job ("need 8+ PHP, 6+ MySQL") and developers ("have 7 PHP, 7 MySQL, 9 Ruby on Rails")? Of course, actually getting that going would be difficult, but Monsterboard et al. seem to be making a lot of money...

idan 16y ago

We decided to focus on the employer side of things at launch, for several reasons: * We have to start somewhere * Easier to ship a tightly-focused product, easier to build a message around it. * Not sure where the revenue is on the candidate side. * Honestly, it's just scratching our itch :) We've given some thought to the candidate side, and hope to do something there in the future, though. You're spot on about the recruiter firms.

digitallogic 16y ago
As someone who is looking for a job, I'd be more than willing to shell out a couple of bucks if I knew it would put me in contact with people I'd want to work with. Right now on the candidate side of things it's pretty much the same situation. Go through job listings, send resumes to any that sound interesting, do about 4 phone interviews a week, pass on roughly 3 of them because they either aren't working on something I find interesting, the position itself isn't something I'd enjoy, or my gut tells me to walk away due to the impression I got from the person I talked to. I will pay you to not have to deal with this.
JoachimSchipper 16y ago
This may be totally stupid, but couldn't you have a database of companies looking for a job ("need 8+ PHP, 6+ MySQL") and developers ("have 7 PHP, 7 MySQL, 9 Ruby on Rails")? Of course, actually getting that going would be difficult, but Monsterboard et al. seem to be making a lot of money...