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Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

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empalms wrote: post #7
ztratar wrote: post #2

Woah -- wasn't expecting the quick upvotes! :) Creator here (shamefully submitted myself, haha). Happy to answer any/all questions or ramble on and on about the problem. We basically think there needs to be a legitimately trustworthy service out there. Something that acts more like a a career coach instead of a position spammer. Something that understands your needs and specific situation. Along the lines of "doing t…

Being that you are based in SF, do you think that you are equipped to provide services to job seekers in other cities (i.e. Austin, NYC, Boston, Raleigh, or Seattle)?

We have experts in other cities, but are admittedly going to take an SF-first approach for the next couple months.

Solid question.

Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

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Post by ztratar »

suttree wrote: post #10

Very cool - small thing, there's a spello in the footer "We have helped place candidates at top technoogy companies and startups." Bigger thing, software jobs are pretty much all jobs, or do you mean tech jobs? Either way I like it, nice one!

Snap -- will be in the next push.

We can help people understand the skills for all ranges of software jobs, but prioritize people looking in tech.

Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

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Post by chrisdbaldwin »

ztratar wrote: post #11
empalms wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being that you are based in SF, do you think that you are equipped to provide services to job seekers in other cities (i.e. Austin, NYC, Boston, Raleigh, or Seattle)?

We have experts in other cities, but are admittedly going to take an SF-first approach for the next couple months. Solid question.

Are you willing to coach remotely, or only people you can meet face-to-face in SF?

Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

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Post by ztratar »

ztratar wrote: post #11
empalms wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being that you are based in SF, do you think that you are equipped to provide services to job seekers in other cities (i.e. Austin, NYC, Boston, Raleigh, or Seattle)?

We have experts in other cities, but are admittedly going to take an SF-first approach for the next couple months. Solid question.

Coaching remotely works for us!

Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

#17

Post by schneidmaster »

ztratar wrote: post #12
suttree wrote: post #10

Very cool - small thing, there's a spello in the footer "We have helped place candidates at top technoogy companies and startups." Bigger thing, software jobs are pretty much all jobs, or do you mean tech jobs? Either way I like it, nice one!

Snap -- will be in the next push. We can help people understand the skills for all ranges of software jobs, but prioritize people looking in tech.

Another typo - "Thus, if you're base offer is $100k" - should be "your" :)

Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

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Post by abathur »

ztratar wrote: post #6
sageabilly wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have women on your panel of experts, and if not do you have plans to add women to your panel of experts? Asking not because "OMG MORE WOMEN IN TECH" but because the experience of being a woman trying to navigate a tech job is going to be different than a man's experience, so I would have more confidence in signing up for/recommending your service if I knew it catered more towards my specific demographic. Also,…

We have multiple women in our expert network. I should have highlighted them... doh. We'd love more! https://jobstart.co/experts This was a pivot -- we started off as a mentorship platform, so we're not actively using all of our expert pool at this time. After realizing the nuances of mentorship were making us solve the mentorship problem instead of the job placement problem, we moved onwards. Fun fact: we didn't hav…

> We have multiple women in our expert network. I should have highlighted them... doh. We'd love more! https://jobstart.co/experts

Getting a good candidate:expert match sounds integral to your model, so it may be useful to have a process for leveraging your expert network to review the pairings (including the advice they produce and candidate feedback) to identify places where the coaches may need coaching, or the fitting process may be able to improve.

Re: Jobstart – Personalized, expert guidance to land your next software job

#20

Post by thirdtruck »

ztratar wrote: post #2

Woah -- wasn't expecting the quick upvotes! :) Creator here (shamefully submitted myself, haha). Happy to answer any/all questions or ramble on and on about the problem. We basically think there needs to be a legitimately trustworthy service out there. Something that acts more like a a career coach instead of a position spammer. Something that understands your needs and specific situation. Along the lines of "doing t…

Are you hiring? While I'm hunting for tech work in NY even now, but have had a frustrating enough experience that I'm open to just tackling the problem directly.
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