I'm really getting the feeling that online applications to jobs are rapidly becoming next to useless, it really feels like this market is ripe for disruption, and I've been thinking for a while about how this could be done.
The biggest problem in this space IMO is that there’s so much more money on the recruiting side than the job-seeker side of this exchange, which means that recruiters are ultimately going to play a much bigger role in the product development than the job-seekers.
Job-seekers don’t want to pay to look for work, but recruiters are more than happy to. Until that imbalance is figured out, job posting spam is gonna reign supreme.
Makes me wonder what effect referral bonuses have on an org. People might be more likely to refer people who are similar to themselves, so you might end up with more of the same. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on who's already in...
It’s hard to say what impact referral bonuses have. I know that most of my network does not appreciate being solicited for new opportunities, but I don’t know how often referral bonuses are actually paid out.