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"Once we have a healthy flow of traffic we intend to lay down a few ground rules to help increase the overall standard of jobs that appear on the site." That s
by michaelmartin 15y ago
"Once we have a healthy flow of traffic we intend to lay down a few ground rules to help increase the overall standard of jobs that appear on the site."
That statement does seem a little worrying to me. I know it's a chicken-and-egg problem, but how will you keep building traffic unless the quality really is very good?
And if anything, it will be easier to enforce that now than later. The site does seem to have a good number of jobs for being so young already, but it's still at a nice level where you can manually screen every application.
Maybe one way to separate jobs from ownership stakes would be another tab in the "Browse" section for "Equity"? In the same way that a job can be both Freelance & Remote Friendly, this could be a good way to keep certain jobs separate?
Enforcing quality is the best way to stand out I think; there are hundreds of job boards out there.
One thing I like about yours already is that quite a few specify the salary range. That's the sort of information that makes it higher quality to me.
- Peroni 15y agoJon's gonna give you a decent reply but I wanted to quickly point out that a massive factor in the quality of jobs (including salary transparency) is down to our decision to eliminate recruiter postings. Plus the highly targeted 'Hacker News User' market tends to fly way under the radar of companies that are seeking generic, underpaid code monkey positions.
- michaelmartin 15y agoThanks for the reply, but isn't that the sort of thing that should be clearer on the site? After going back and reading the big blurb on the homepage, I can see a mention about the recruiters now, but really, who reads big blurbs like that? I just think yous need to do more to emphasise the quality angle and stand out from the hundreds of sites that just bought a job board WordPress theme.
- inm 15y agoI think the solutions we have in development will address the issues at hand here and are along the lines of what you suggest, better categorisation of postings essentially. The main thing that's making this a laborious process is trying to get the UX right (the posting process, discoverability for candidates). The site is largely still in an MVP sort of state and we're trying to start off giving the message of 'being different' by way of our own presence and interactions with people. We release early and often (though it's been a busy couple of weeks since launch so we've not been able to do as much as we'd like) but not all the things on our roadmap are suitable for that. Some things, like this, we see as deserving more time to get right before rolling out.