" If I'm offered a position with the company I agree to accept it. " i'll... pass.
even if the salary offered is 10 bucks a day...
Show HN: Non-technical founder MVP = Hustlebee
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Re: Show HN: Non-technical founder MVP = Hustlebee
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah definitely the next blog post will be about how I launched the page/what I'm using in terms of tech. I am probably as non-technical as they get...I've been reading HN for a while now but have done no db programming before and my skills are limited to front-end stuff (read the blog post at http://www.hustlebee.posterous.com if you want to know more about my background). Re: the required field, the goal of the sit…
No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first. Working for hustlebee might be my dream job but if I were offered $0.50/hr then you could probably imagine what my response would be. No check box on a recruiters sign up page is going to change that. More importantly it's almost certainly not binding and so the applicants have no reason to not check the box. If I were launching this…
> No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first
Quite. I list a few obvious reasons why a candidate wont want to take a job in a thread above - but this is not to mention the Service Agreement / Employment Contract which could be pages and pages of detailed legalese and, particularily with startups, could have lots of contentious stuff with stock options and so on.
Having your USP as "the candidate promises to accept your job offer" is unreasonable, unrealistic, impractical and most likely unlawful.
Re: Show HN: Non-technical founder MVP = Hustlebee
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first. Working for hustlebee might be my dream job but if I were offered $0.50/hr then you could probably imagine what my response would be. No check box on a recruiters sign up page is going to change that. More importantly it's almost certainly not binding and so the applicants have no reason to not check the box. If I were launching this…
> No sane person is going to agree to take a position without seeing the terms first Quite. I list a few obvious reasons why a candidate wont want to take a job in a thread above - but this is not to mention the Service Agreement / Employment Contract which could be pages and pages of detailed legalese and, particularily with startups, could have lots of contentious stuff with stock options and so on. Having your USP…
Agreed.
There's a lot of room for disruption in recruiting as many agencies/recruiters have poor/unethical practices. Unfortunately this misses the mark for me as an employer and would scare me away if I were looking for work as an unreasonable requirement.
Re: Show HN: Non-technical founder MVP = Hustlebee
#24To be brutally honest, your product makes no sense to me and I have reservations about the problem it is solving actually being a problem.
It's defining hook, that people using it must accept any job offer, is outlandish. On further inspection I can use Hustlebee to submit applications to multiple companies. Doesn't that make the promise of more dedicated employee leads empty? Why doesn't it at least check the email address to allow only one submission?
If you decide to go back to the drawing board you need to re-examine your views of the job market. There are many more potential employees than there are employers, that is why people apply for multiple jobs at the same time. It really isn't that big of a deal to a company when they extend and offer and it is turned down. Essentially, you are solving the wrong side of the problem here.
Re: Show HN: Non-technical founder MVP = Hustlebee
#25So what happens if this takes off and you get 10 / 100 / 1000 seekers for a job at X? Is it on Hustlebee to pre-qualify? Are you now a technical recruiter taking some % of the annual salary for the first 6/12 months? Why is hustlebee better than applying directly? You only place designers/engineers? Even if the company has other openings? Can you have a page that shows all the opening from that drop-down of companies…
1) I'll be sending applications to companies and they can choose whether or not to interview candidates. 2) I haven't figured out specifics but I'll probably charge companies that successfully make hires through us something similar to what they'd pay via employee referrals. 3) Hustlebee is better than applying directly because companies will treat you as a more serious candidate (just like if you were to create a we…
From personal experience I would say #3 is a myth. It's reasonable for "success" stories to emerge more often that "failures" not because there are more but because people don't like to talk about it after they failed.
Re: Show HN: Non-technical founder MVP = Hustlebee
#26Have you talked with anyone of the companies on your site about whether the problem your site solves is in fact a problem for them?
If not, and you are still committed to finding product-market fit, perhaps their feedback would be helpful as you refocus on a different problem.