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Yes, sometimes people can say that they want one thing, but in reality they probably don't.

My theory was that there can be some complex set of criteria, including the emotional match, that can determine a better job fit for each person. The challenge here is to determine that set, and develop an assessment tool for both the job seeker and the company/team.

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That's an interesting idea. You'd probably need a psychologist to come up with the questionnaire and then maybe you could convince a company to let you run the study. You'd need paired feedback to0... I guess you could ask people to reveal their performance evals anonymously but that might undervalue employee-employer fit. You'd probably want to have these ranked by some outside metric of each company's success. Someone must've already done this, if not it'd be a good research project for a psychology or business school grad student. Sounds like a worthwhile YC startup. Maybe something like "work at a startup" could factor in or run this type of study too.

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