Side note: Why is everyone into job boards in 2020/2021? Was there some event or article to push this as an untapped market? Seems like so many people recently came up with the ever same variation of job listing services.
> Why is everyone into job boards in 2020/2021? Was there some event or article to push this as an untapped market?
There is/was a global pandemic making a lot of people unemployed.
If you're a coder and unemployed, what better way to get a job than make a job board? Potential employers will come to you and tell you about their jobs, and then you have a great leg up by saying, "I built the job board you posted to".
> Potential employers will come to you and tell you about their jobs, and then you have a great leg up by saying, "I built the job board you posted to".
I recall Google rejecting Max Howell despite creating Homebrew for not having as solid of a comp-sci knowledge as they were looking for. Despite flaws of the product that he'd be the first to acknowledge, creating it should've been evidence that he has strong potential to grow into a person that could benefit the company.
And I guess I'm not surprised. Some of the interview questions I've seen people post online from their experiences with FAANG are so detached from the code programmers write on a day-to-day basis.
A lot of college grads go into the recruiting industry as a means to get entry level tech sales experience, a lot of people are also unemployed and thinking about unemployment solutions, finally job boards are a good means to collect data that is interesting: the resumes of everyone.
Job boards are a major part of the zeitgeist of collapsing middle class America.
Why now? And I am seeing this in Germany as well, which of course suffers a social divide, but much less extreme, or existentially threatening, than in the US. I assume the "job exchange" market is a natural monopoly, at least for its respective sections, and now there seems to be a race for it. But weirdly it's for the most part all the same: Listings. There doesn't seem to be a sustainable model, which avoids the problems of the past's iterations. Therefore I assume it's driven by business folks, not people with ideas.
I don't know, but apparently they weren't perfect or otherwise there wouldn't be such a rush for it, no?
I guess it's still a tedious experience for all parties involved.
I wonder why there isn't an OkCupid for jobs, but I think the problem is an asymmetrical interest in a "good match", unlike dating. As usual people fail to come up with good metrics and incentives and it's Goodhart's law all the way. Some problems just can't be solved by technology. But that never stopped anyone from trying over and over again... hyping their overfit tech to non-tech people.
I think the actual problem is with management on the employer side, not the job boards. They need to bite the bullet and accept they need real human interactions to measure productivity and reward it case to case.
Job board industry veteran here. Job boards are pretty easy to get started. You can write a nice job board in a weekend so a lot of boards start when a developer doesn't like the job search experience. This seems to be an example of that. That said, getting traction and making money can be hard because it is very competitive with Indeed, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google gobbling up traffic.
That said, there are lots of good sources for backfill (job posts) and there are still lots of really great ways to monetize users and applicants via direct sales to employers and pay per click or pay per application programmatic networks.
Side note: Why is everyone into job boards in 2020/2021? Was there some event or article to push this as an untapped market? Seems like so many people recently came up with the ever same variation of job listing services.