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I agree - having recently been through tech recruitment processes its pretty painful - at the end of the day recruiters are just sales people, their single goal
by rhinds 14y ago
I agree - having recently been through tech recruitment processes its pretty painful - at the end of the day recruiters are just sales people, their single goal is to sell you and the roles, regardless of what your goals or skills are.
As a result, with a few friends I have been working as part of a team working on a product to try and disrupt the recruitment industry (was actually going to do a Show HN, as we have just launched two days ago!) - Its a online resume building site, that lets developers plug in to GitHub, stackoverflow, etc, to demonstrate their projects and experiences.
As well as this though, we are working on the companies section, where companies can register and effectively create their resumes pitching to developers why they should work for them (developer hardware setup, training agenda, oss contribs etc) - so making more incentives for companies to register themselves (and less so for agencies), and hopefully reduce that burden of recruiting on companies as they can easily see github contributions, stack answers etc and get a better indication of potential candidates skills.
Feel free to check out the site (in beta) http://nerdability.com http://nerdability.com
- Peroni 14y agoThis is what I'm talking about. Bit of advice, stick up some form of an 'about us' as it's not immediately evident what you are trying to achieve with the site. Had I not read your comment first I would have been a bit confused.
- rhinds 14y agoThanks, thats good advice - we did have an about blurb in one of the early design iterations, but we obviously decided to drop it - will add some details back in. Thanks for checking out the site.
- zalew 14y ago> Its a online resume building site, that lets developers plug in to GitHub, stackoverflow, etc, to demonstrate their projects and experiences sth like https://masterbranch.com/ https://masterbranch.com/ ? except the latter lets you connect other repos than github.
- rhinds 14y agoyep, it would certainly appear so.. Just as we were finishing build I also got a private invite to the StackOverflow beta career profile site (now publicly open i believe) which is the same thing but more mature (connects Stack score and a tonne of code repos etc) So it seems we are not first to the party, but at least we can try and enjoy building a (hopefully) nice product!! Hopefully a differentiating factor might be that we are planning on focusing more on the company profile/job stuff and generally the whole end-to-end recruitment experience, but lets see.. Thanks for letting me know about masterbranch though, seems like a really nice site.
- rhinds 14y agoalso, we are developing further integration with other repos and third parties, but as we are only second day live it will be incremental..!