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Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by peteretep »

nnnnni wrote: post #15
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…

The ability to block a company is great! I've seen too many cases where a "job posting" on somewhere like dice.com is really a meta-posting by a recruiter that is looking to fill a position in the actual company and collect a royalty (or whatever it's called) for doing it. I don't want to apply for Recruiters, LLC. I want to apply for RealCompany, Inc. Another reason why blocking is great is because sometimes you'll…

    > I've seen too many cases where a "job posting" on 
    > somewhere like dice.com is really a meta-posting by a
    > recruiter
You make it sound like this is the exception, rather than the 80% of the whole recruitment market it represents.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by Kiro »

justboxing wrote: post #9

I love everything about your site, except the choice of background colors. Why black / dark grey? It's really really hard on the eyes and I have seen that dark theme used only for nightclub websites and boxing websites (and it doesn't make sense even there.)

I think it's refreshing.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by gabemart »

Something is seriously wrong with the gif slider on the front page. It eats unbelievable amounts of memory and makes my machine much less responsive. Are you actually hiding the gifs properly when they're not the slide on display? Are you doing opacity transforms on them? Whatever it is, it's extremely noticeable.

Chrome 38.0.2125.111, Windows 8.1

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by tibbetts »

keithwarren wrote: post #35
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…

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…

It's all the right stuff to be thinking about. Pull from linkedin or something if you can't extract from a resume. Or hire some low wage work at home english majors to manually extract the resume data and offer people a "build my profile for me" option where they just send a resume.

And it's easy to spend a lot of time on dogfooding.

If people don't want free advice, they wouldn't need to post here.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by eggbrain »

panon wrote: post #55

Probably somebody is panicking over this, but I still thought I should share. Love the concept. "We're sorry, but something went wrong. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."

Doh! This is what I get for falling asleep. I think I need to scale up again, but I'll be watching the logs more carefully now that I'm up and about.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by eggbrain »

tibbetts wrote: post #56
keithwarren wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's all the right stuff to be thinking about. Pull from linkedin or something if you can't extract from a resume. Or hire some low wage work at home english majors to manually extract the resume data and offer people a "build my profile for me" option where they just send a resume. And it's easy to spend a lot of time on dogfooding. If people don't want free advice, they wouldn't need to post here.

> Pull from linkedin or something if you can't extract from a resume.

I definitely do this, check it out in action here: https://i.imgur.com/j4aNIPP.gif

PDF/Word resume support will definitely be something in the pipes, so keep watching http://blog.truejob.com as I'll be adding a bunch of features in the next few weeks.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by nnnnni »

peteretep wrote: post #51
nnnnni wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ability to block a company is great! I've seen too many cases where a "job posting" on somewhere like dice.com is really a meta-posting by a recruiter that is looking to fill a position in the actual company and collect a royalty (or whatever it's called) for doing it. I don't want to apply for Recruiters, LLC. I want to apply for RealCompany, Inc. Another reason why blocking is great is because sometimes you'll…

> I've seen too many cases where a "job posting" on > somewhere like dice.com is really a meta-posting by a > recruiter You make it sound like this is the exception, rather than the 80% of the whole recruitment market it represents.

...ah, then I used poor wording.
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