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Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
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Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
#42A 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…
This is a little tone deaf and lacking deeper thought. Surface level stuff like x color buttons are ugly is not really helpful. Telling a guy who has been focused on this for months he should spend more time dogfooding - again, not helpful. What really got me though was complaining that you could not upload a resume. Seriously, give it some thought. Parsing non-structured data in an accurate way is a very hard proble…
I've given it three years of thought, particularly on the resume parser. It's not tone deaf either. Do we want to give everyone who has built something a pat on the back, or do we want to help them build something awesome?
Also, you complain about that my feedback is too hard to address, but then simple stuff like non-ugly buttons is unhelpful?
re: dogfooding - often folks will build something and then not holistically test it. You don't need a user study to try something from end to end and pretend to be a user. Just a helpful reminder to do the simple stuff to make something great.
Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
#43There is a memory leak or some ridiculous sized photos on the site, it ate 1.5G of my system memory in 30s of use.
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#44"OkCupid for Jobs"
So, after countless hours of wasted time and continual rejection, I am finally granted an interview, and my interviewer turns out to be fatter than expected?
Or is that just what it's like in the Bay Area?
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#45Awesome. Great to see more good work out of Michigan!
Great idea as well
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#46Holy Cow this is a very good idea.
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#47Greetings 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…
Why don't you have a search for jobs in Chicago?
It is a city where it has a strong yearning, connections wise and work ethic, to become a strong tech center. It won't be the next silicon valley but the results will be consistently good.
Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
#48There is a memory leak or some ridiculous sized photos on the site, it ate 1.5G of my system memory in 30s of use.
This.
Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
#49Greetings 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…
Please make use of this:
```css .clickable-stuff { cursor: pointer; } ```
Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
#50Greetings 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…
Hrm I think I love the tagline more than the site. I really like what OkCupid has done and would love it if someone actually built a jobs site that worked in the same way. Both sides have lists of questions which are presented to them and they answer them and/or rate how important the answers of their prospective parter are. How would this work for a job site?
Q. What's your favorite CSS preprocessor?
- sass - less - I don't write CSS
Q. Do you want to work in an office where there are dogs?
- absolutely! - that would be cool - don't really care
etc.
I think there are a LOT better ways to find good employee/employer matches than pulling in job listings and resumes. OK Cupid for jobs is a great idea, I just hope you end up building it!