Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
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Re: Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
#2Very cool company with engaged founders! CTO reached out to me last week via GitHub when a new HackerSurf user wanted to see JOBBOX scraped: https://github.com/scotthasbrouck/HackerSurf/issues/9
Re: Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
#3Very cool company with engaged founders! CTO reached out to me last week via GitHub when a new HackerSurf user wanted to see JOBBOX scraped: https://github.com/scotthasbrouck/HackerSurf/issues/9
Thanks! Glad you scraped us :)
Re: Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
#4I second the very cool company.
I applied to a job there (went on an interview, waiting for the results), one of the founders prior to the interview even had a Skype Call with me regarding the interview and gave me a few tips.
So far, really nice experience. And they're very open to feedback, I've made a couple of suggestions which where implemented quite fast actually (simple suggestions, nothing very fancy)
Re: Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
#5I second the very cool company. I applied to a job there (went on an interview, waiting for the results), one of the founders prior to the interview even had a Skype Call with me regarding the interview and gave me a few tips. So far, really nice experience. And they're very open to feedback, I've made a couple of suggestions which where implemented quite fast actually (simple suggestions, nothing very fancy)
And you're one of our top candidates! :D The other suggestions will be implemented but will take some more time...
Re: Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
#6Refer to the top comment in this post.
Re: Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded
#7Refer to the top comment in this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908067
Hi Andrew, you're right on multiple points, please let me not go TL;DR on this one:
- Referrals for the sake of taking advantage of your friends are rubish. I'm with you on that one. Like you, I know multiple referral-only platforms that went bankrupt already, many more will and I do not wish us to become one of them.
- JOBBOX.io started out as a pure referral-based mechanism, however, compared to other referral mechanisms, it was quite hard to push through a referral as you needed to write down a propper recommendation letter (we checked all of them) and your friend needed to apply. We launched on March this year and soon realised this was definitely not enough.
- We then implemented the "apply now" mechanism as a result of user feedback (http://blog.jobbox.io/listening-to-feedback-and-making-chang...). In order for an application to go forward the candidates needed someone who could refer them. Again, before the application was approved, our team did a "5-minutes check" just to make sure everything on the application made sense. This small step prevented "crappy" applications from being sent over to the employers.
- We realised that, from our 3 key users: employers, candidates and referrers, the candidates were the ones that we needed to focus on. So, we've re-built our entire homepage communication from being referral-oriented, to become candidate-oriented.
- Since then we've been shifting away from the referral-oriented communication and we're heading into a candidate-oriented one.
- What next? We're building core functionalities that support candidates, like talent advice, evaluation tools and job offers scoring. Still, we're keeping (and improving) the referral system as we believe that someone should get rewarded for making an on-target referral.
Sorry for the long reply but as I mentioned to @ftpaul early today, your comment deserved a proper reply as I agree with your argumentation, and wanted to give you a sneak peek into JOBBOX.io future.