https://www.news.google.com/search?q=ghost+jobs - ghost jobs are a real problem - I don't know if this is the solution.
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Has a registered business that's been around longer than 6 months. Has a confirmed business phone number, called by a human that verifies another human is on the other end. Has a confirmed business address (mail them the confirmation code). Has a website that's been around longer then 6 months. Has a Google Maps location that's been around longer than 6 months.
Aren’t people researching the companies they are applying for? Also, I don’t think I have ever applied to a fake job.
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#113Verified how? The poster has an account? No The poster has confirmed an email address? No The poster has a confirmed email address that is associable to the business? Maybe The poster has a confirmed email address that is associable to the business and their name is verifiable as HR/Hiring Manager/Someone in a legitimate position to post this offer? Sure
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#114Verified how? The poster has an account? No The poster has confirmed an email address? No The poster has a confirmed email address that is associable to the business? Maybe The poster has a confirmed email address that is associable to the business and their name is verifiable as HR/Hiring Manager/Someone in a legitimate position to post this offer? Sure
Has a registered business that's been around longer than 6 months. Has a confirmed business phone number, called by a human that verifies another human is on the other end. Has a confirmed business address (mail them the confirmation code). Has a website that's been around longer then 6 months. Has a Google Maps location that's been around longer than 6 months.
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#115This won't help in countries like Singapore. When you are a jobseeker, yes, you don't want to apply for job post that is destined for internal transfer. When you are someone who is in the process of internal transfer, you want this JD has many applicants to prove to the government that this roles has applicants but they are not as strong as the one being transferred. When you are the hiring manager, you want the proc…
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#116Cyrpto had some interesting takes on these sort of problems that we haven't really applied more broadly. The way I'd design a job board is require the applicant to escrow X and the job poster to escrow Y*X. Y is is the trust ratio. Given a bad experience, either the side can 'burn' the other and send both escrowed amounts to charity. An okay trust ratio might be 10, meaning they'll give you 10:1 burn ratio. A good on…
What is the incentive from the company side to use this? Any rejected candidate is going to say they had a bad experience.
The company's incentive is they get strong talent without the expensive of recruiters, they have a way to signal they're serious about hiring and aren't going to waste people's time.
A rejected candidate may burn the company but it requires burning their own stake as well so the incentive is really only there if they feel they've been significantly mistreated.
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#118I am building something in this space: teeming.ai/jobs While we are focused specifically on technical roles in AI startups, and we don't "verify" per se, we do enrich jobs data with investor-grade intelligence on the startups themselves, so you can see which companies have legitimate backing.
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#119Cornell ILR is trying to build out a job board [0] like this -- but I feel like it's failing because it's simply an aggregator of other job boards, with limited value add. [0] https://jobsearchplatform.ilr.cornell.edu/
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#120Cyrpto had some interesting takes on these sort of problems that we haven't really applied more broadly. The way I'd design a job board is require the applicant to escrow X and the job poster to escrow Y*X. Y is is the trust ratio. Given a bad experience, either the side can 'burn' the other and send both escrowed amounts to charity. An okay trust ratio might be 10, meaning they'll give you 10:1 burn ratio. A good on…
What is the incentive from the company side to use this? Any rejected candidate is going to say they had a bad experience.
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