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Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by belzebub »

eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

This is just the post I was looking for. I am from Michigan and currently looking for a software development position! Sadly there is slim pickins in Grand Rapids. While I have your attention, can you add an option to filter for "Remote" jobs? I currently work remotely and have difficulty finding similar positions.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by djokkataja »

redmattred wrote: post #17
eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

AngelList's API or getting a feed from TheLadders.com is probably your best bet for getting structured job data which includes salary data. There are plenty of other options (indeed, simplyhired, monster, burning glass) if salary data isn't a requirement. I also have a job search tool I recently launched (aimed specifically at software engineers) that I'm looking to get feedback on: http://www.codejobs.io/ Any feedba…

Should probably have a separate thread for your site, but it's broken in latest Firefox on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/WNSca8S.png

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by scobar »

keithwarren wrote: post #14

I went to Startup School in SV this year and must have met 3 dozen startups but the only one I kept thinking about was this one. Scott is brilliant and is thinking about this space in a refreshing way. I am actually a bit blown away TrueJob is not in the W15 batch - SamA and team often say they mess up and miss big things, if any partners read this - please take another look, he is the real deal.

I met him the same weekend, and remember him vividly because of his "throwing star" business cards. Unfortunately, we didn't discuss our startups, but I'm very glad to learn of his here and now. I'm very passionate about this domain too. Hiring needs so much improvement, and there's a lot of people trying to find the best solution. I wish Scott the best of luck.

I'll be providing some more thorough feedback to Scott, but at a glance, one thing I really think is great is the JobStats feature. Being rejected with feedback like, "We found someone better for the position," doesn't help struggling job seekers identify areas they should focus on improving.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by notastartup »

eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

Absolutely LOVE the onboarding. the next and previous buttons could be bigger and spaced apart from each other.

would love if this could work in Canadian cities.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by timcederman »

A head's up for Hacker News folks - this is entirely for jobs in Detroit.

Some other feedback:

- Bait and switch sucks. Showing salaries before signing up, and then saying "whoops, we don't have salaries" after signing up is poor form

- Building powerful filters won't help most job seekers. Most job seekers keep the net wide because it's hard to predict what the perfect job is going to have as a keyword in it. (I helped build trovix.com, acquired by Monster, and ran dozens of user research sessions)

- Your tour is way, way too long. At the end, there's a next button that doesn't do anything

- Why can't I upload my resume? I have to cut and paste everything in to your fields?

- I have a 13" Macbook Pro, and the site doesn't even come close to fitting in the horizontal width of my browser

- green/red/blue buttons are ugly

- There are numerous z-index problems around the site

- the video, particularly of the mouse moving back and forth over the star ratings, is super distracting

+ a lot more issues - you guys should spend some time dogfooding this.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by fillskills »

eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

Hi Scott, Excellent to see your launch. It was great meeting you at StartupSchool. Here is a list of APIs where you can get job data: http://www.joobsbox.com/blog/job-search-apis/

Best of luck for the future.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by eggbrain »

timcederman wrote: post #26

A head's up for Hacker News folks - this is entirely for jobs in Detroit. Some other feedback: - Bait and switch sucks. Showing salaries before signing up, and then saying "whoops, we don't have salaries" after signing up is poor form - Building powerful filters won't help most job seekers. Most job seekers keep the net wide because it's hard to predict what the perfect job is going to have as a keyword in it. (I hel…

Hey! Thanks for the feedback.

I mentioned that there were only Michigan jobs in the comments below, but it's good to get more coverage on this.

> Bait and switch sucks. Showing salaries before signing up, and then saying "whoops, we don't have salaries" after signing up is poor form

My salaries I had apparently came from a bad source, meaning they weren't representative of the real job. I want to make sure I'm representing the data correctly, and I don't want job seekers to apply for a job under false pretenses.

> Why can't I upload my resume?

Pdf and word document resumes are notoriously hard to parse. I originally had a parser for that, but people put their data in many places -- bottom of resume, top of resume, etc. Other sources ended up being easier to parse, so I went with them first. Stay tuned!

> ... Doesn't come close to fitting the horizontal width of my browser

I'm just one guy! I tried a bunch of devices, but I'm sure there are things I still need to fix. Same thing for z-index -- I'm sure I'll be tweaking for weeks to come. Stay tuned!

> video is distracting

Sorry about that! I will fix this in the next few days. I have a lot of work ahead of me.

> you guys should spend some time dogfooding this

I am! Up until a few days ago, only about 10 people had ever seen my site. I'll contine to improve it to make it a better experience.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by redmattred »

djokkataja wrote: post #23
redmattred wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AngelList's API or getting a feed from TheLadders.com is probably your best bet for getting structured job data which includes salary data. There are plenty of other options (indeed, simplyhired, monster, burning glass) if salary data isn't a requirement. I also have a job search tool I recently launched (aimed specifically at software engineers) that I'm looking to get feedback on: http://www.codejobs.io/ Any feedba…

Should probably have a separate thread for your site, but it's broken in latest Firefox on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/WNSca8S.png

Ah, thank you for the heads up - should have caught that

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by patronagezero »

Doesn't seem to be a workable way to override the geo-ip location settings. I attempted to set the zipcode which just spins as in-progress indefinitely for me. Finally managed to save the zipcode by hitting save but the listing still shows the previous ip location.

I have to say as a tangent, I hate what the JS-dependent UI people are doing to the internet. The experience sucks with only ghostery enabled and shows as blocking analytics and relic. What happened to the top-shelf web designers using javascript and a UX enrichment as opposed to a dependency?

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