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Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by pbmango »

admangan wrote: post #9
pirate787 wrote: post #8

As a native English-speaker in the US, the name seems problematic. "Kiter" is not a word and feels closer to a profanity rather than a reference to a kite. Further a "kite" doesn't have an aspirational metaphor in US-English-- in fact it is the opposite, "Go fly a kite" is a dismissive phrase. I don't think the name is viable.

Good points. We are both avid kite surfers so did some word magic to come up with Kiter. We also wanted to emulate the image of having a string from your kite so you can have control. A tether from the traditional spray and pray method of applications to something grounded. But being a word wasn't high on our criteria list. For example Uber and Spanx both aren't words.

If you can imagine the job hunt as an exciting experiment it might unlock new approaches.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_El...

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by Zababa »

pirate787 wrote: post #8

As a native English-speaker in the US, the name seems problematic. "Kiter" is not a word and feels closer to a profanity rather than a reference to a kite. Further a "kite" doesn't have an aspirational metaphor in US-English-- in fact it is the opposite, "Go fly a kite" is a dismissive phrase. I don't think the name is viable.

As a non native english speaker, the name is perfectly fine. It's in the line of "er" names: twitter, tumblr, flickr. I'm glad they went with "Kiter" and not "Kitr".

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by MattGaiser »

Are many people actually applying for enough jobs for this to have a major use? I know there are plenty of stories of new grads needing 300 applications to get a job, but how common is that? How many jobs were you applying for to inspire this?

As an aside, I like your use of the Chrome extension as I built something similar at my company for legal research.

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by pbmango »

MattGaiser wrote: post #13

Are many people actually applying for enough jobs for this to have a major use? I know there are plenty of stories of new grads needing 300 applications to get a job, but how common is that? How many jobs were you applying for to inspire this? As an aside, I like your use of the Chrome extension as I built something similar at my company for legal research.

Hi Matt. Great question. Our users typically track You mentioned new grads and that demographic is a big portion of our user base so far. That being said, in todays remote world, almost any talented potential applicant is probably monitoring a few opportunities, even if they are happy in their current role. The plugin (v1) will be a way for someone to capture down a role/company they might find on HN or twitter but are not ready to spend time applying for yet. I hope this is helpful.

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by jeena »

Some early feedback:

I use uBlock origin to block all external scripts and then the page is just white until I disable it, not a nice experience.

I tried to add my first Application and I'm getting: "Sorry, we ran into a temporary bug and can't complete your request. We'll fix it as soon as we can; please try again in a bit!" I basically only put in "Qualcomm" as the company name then https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2403729547/ as the link and "Deep Learning SW Engineer - Embedded-AI-Framework" as the position, nothing more. I created a user with a email address, nothing more.

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by saadalem »

MattGaiser wrote: post #13

Are many people actually applying for enough jobs for this to have a major use? I know there are plenty of stories of new grads needing 300 applications to get a job, but how common is that? How many jobs were you applying for to inspire this? As an aside, I like your use of the Chrome extension as I built something similar at my company for legal research.

I guess whether people are laid off or just looking for new opportunities, it may not be easy to keep all the resumes, responses, contacts and interview results together, also maybe they already applied for this position? to this company? If so, when and why didn't they still have an offer from them? If they rejected, for what reason? what about reference contacts? test assignments?

so an online service for keeping all information about their job search process may be helpful.

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by jeena »

jeena wrote: post #15

Some early feedback: I use uBlock origin to block all external scripts and then the page is just white until I disable it, not a nice experience. I tried to add my first Application and I'm getting: "Sorry, we ran into a temporary bug and can't complete your request. We'll fix it as soon as we can; please try again in a bit!" I basically only put in "Qualcomm" as the company name then https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/vi…

Oh and I'm using Firefox on Linux

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by bogdanoff_2 »

pirate787 wrote: post #8

As a native English-speaker in the US, the name seems problematic. "Kiter" is not a word and feels closer to a profanity rather than a reference to a kite. Further a "kite" doesn't have an aspirational metaphor in US-English-- in fact it is the opposite, "Go fly a kite" is a dismissive phrase. I don't think the name is viable.

"kiting" in the context of video games means continuously moving in and out of range of an enemy in order to hit it and and avoid being hit yourself.

Re: Show HN: CRM for Your Job Search

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Post by admangan »

saadalem wrote: post #16
MattGaiser wrote: post #13

Are many people actually applying for enough jobs for this to have a major use? I know there are plenty of stories of new grads needing 300 applications to get a job, but how common is that? How many jobs were you applying for to inspire this? As an aside, I like your use of the Chrome extension as I built something similar at my company for legal research.

I guess whether people are laid off or just looking for new opportunities, it may not be easy to keep all the resumes, responses, contacts and interview results together, also maybe they already applied for this position? to this company? If so, when and why didn't they still have an offer from them? If they rejected, for what reason? what about reference contacts? test assignments? so an online service for keeping a…

Exactly. Our longterm goal is to not just help with the job you are applying to currently, but to help you get your next job as well.
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