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What kind of competitive benchmarking would you offer?
by altdataseller 3y ago
What kind of competitive benchmarking would you offer?
- romanhn 3y agoCompensation is top of mind for me. An applicant [EDIT: application, not applicant] tracking system is well-positioned to have a solid, up-to-date view into the compensation landscape, unlike sites like Glassdoor and Blind which are more lagging and self-selecting. Balanced with privacy, there is some real opportunity here. Outside of compensation - all sorts of analytics pertaining to interview process, how quickly competitors fill their roles, that sort of data.
- altdataseller 3y agoWhy is an applicant tracking system have an up to date view of the compensation landscape? Would I be required to submit how much I was offered to your system? Why would that be necessary?
- romanhn 3y agoThat's a fair question - and no, almost all data is optional. But... people do enter this, and companies have roles with open compensation as well. I'm talking about an aggregated view into anonymized data here. EDIT: Just realized I wrote "applicant tracking system" above. Total slip of the tongue, this is an _application_ tracking platform for job seekers, not an ATS used by companies. Though I do sometimes think of Rolepad as an ATS for the candidate.
- altdataseller 3y agoWhy not just gather all the roles with open compensation out there and aggregate that data then, instead of tracking only the ones your users apply to?
- iakh 3y agoI can see value in tracking offers to see how negotiations are going. so if there's standard fields for this, then that's a way he could track comp data without requiring, and even get offer increase info which is probably even more valuable.
- nvy 3y agoI feel like at this point you're also building glassdoor or levels.fyi in addition to rolepad.