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Re: Show HN: College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

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Post by amcintyre »

hacknut13 wrote: post #3
klbarry wrote: post #2

It's cool, but I wish there was a way to separate what jobs you want mail for. (different types of programming, marketing, seo, product management, there is a lot of variety.)

That's definitely something we've got feedback on and would implement in the next few days. Thanks!

Similarly, it would be nice to let students specify whether they are graduate/undergraduate, and maybe their field of study/interest.

I can imagine if I was paying to send an offer out to find people to solve hard CS or math problems for me, I'd be disappointed to find that 90% of the recipients were (for example) undergrad marketing majors.

Re: Show HN: College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

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Post by jfi »

Welcome to the recruiting space, try not to go crazy :) To get your service started, using email as the main messaging medium is smart as you want to build up your candidate-base, so offering something (in this case, information and job leads) will help you win adopters. Charging on a per job posting basis is a difficult sell as there are literally thousands of others offering very similar services. Showing job-seeker numbers can help motivate the employer to go with you as can past success stories. I'd recommend focusing on achieving those before you start charging. Think about offerings above and beyond just job postings, those are a commodity.

I've been running CollegeJobConnect for the past year and be happy to chat with a fellow entrepreneur who is trying to make student recruiting better. This is a really, really difficult space to be a startup in, so as much as we can all help each other the closer we will be to bringing improvement.

Re: Show HN: College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

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Post by Techmeetups »

PricePoint is key in any service. We started a similar service for The London Silicon Roundabout called TechStartupJobs and started at about £5 (about $8) to test market within our community of 1000+ tech individuals and companies. Once you prove value price can be adjusted. Didnt mean to preach but this is 101 Pricing Services that we mentor to our Startups (http://www.techstarthub.com/startup-mentoring/) Best of luck anyway!

Rgds Shawn Techmeetups

Re: Show HN: College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

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Post by genystartup »

amcintyre wrote: post #11
hacknut13 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's definitely something we've got feedback on and would implement in the next few days. Thanks!

Similarly, it would be nice to let students specify whether they are graduate/undergraduate, and maybe their field of study/interest. I can imagine if I was paying to send an offer out to find people to solve hard CS or math problems for me, I'd be disappointed to find that 90% of the recipients were (for example) undergrad marketing majors.

When applicants receive the jobs in their inbox, when they click on the job to apply...they are asked a number of questions including being grad/undergrad, if they have github profile (for those applying for engineering jobs) and many more.

But we do have a great mix of backgrounds..about 30% marketing and the rest are engineering and design.

Re: Show HN: College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

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Post by rumpelstiltskin »

KevinMS wrote: post #16

How is this not automated ageism?

For the same reason facebook's "college students only" rule when it first launched wasn't ageism.

It's a hook, catering to a very specific niche of ppl. If it catches on, you can bet that they'll expand with MBA2Startup and others, for more 'seasoned' vets.

Re: Show HN: College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

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Post by KevinMS »

rumpelstiltskin wrote: post #17
KevinMS wrote: post #16

How is this not automated ageism?

For the same reason facebook's "college students only" rule when it first launched wasn't ageism. It's a hook, catering to a very specific niche of ppl. If it catches on, you can bet that they'll expand with MBA2Startup and others, for more 'seasoned' vets.

Not buying it. If there was a facebook rule for "college students only", it was because facebook was for college students.

I have no doubt that many companies and headhunters look for recent graduates not because they have just been taught the finer points of development, but because they are most likely young.

If this website was slightly less veiled it would be called 20sToStartup.com, and you wouldn't even dare call that acceptable niche marketing. Maybe that's ok for cars and music, but not for peoples livelihoods.

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