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Show HN: Land 10 interviews a month with 0 effort

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"We use AI and a team of sales experts to apply to hundreds of jobs and send tailored messages to hiring managers on your behalf"

Your AI helps creating tailored messages and their AI reads such messages to weed out bad candidates. A real time gan

Haha - AI helps. We write tailored messages ourselves though. It's hard to replace super tailored well thought out messages with machines.

It’s not clear what the requirements are for being accepted. I’m assuming each candidate is vetted before they get help. For example, is this targeted at software engineers, or any type of professional? What’s the price of the service? If a software engineer applies, are only certain levels accepted, ie senior engineers or those with some minimum years of experience? Do you work with junior engineers?

It sounds like an awesome service but I find that a lot of these types of companies seem to only target people who already have lots of leverage when seeking new roles (Outco, Triplebyte, Hired, Arc Elevate, etc).

Really good questions and pushback. Thank you.

I've worked with people with 0-15 years of experience across completely different roles and industries.

I look for yes's to the following questions (as well as a few others):

1. Is this person competent in their target role? 2. Does this person lack a sales and marketing background (this costs you a few months more of job searching, lower offers, etc.)? 3. Does this person lack time and energy (e.g. if you're full-time at a company, you probably don't have the time to apply to jobs)? 4. Does this person value their time a lot? (Landing interviews can take several hours a month - some people would rather spend that time in other places).

That helps. Thanks for clarifying!

Let me know if you throw in an app!

It’s a survey that asks you your name, what kind of job you want, how much you want to make, and whether you have more or less than one year available for your job search. Then it says someone will get back to you.

Yep! That's part of the screening process. I'd love feedback. What are your thoughts on the survey?

All of this seems a bit dubious to me considering your previous description of having simply scraped and mass-emailed all the hiring managers on Crunchbase, and Apple employees don't (I don't think) tend to use icloud email addresses that they're comfortable publishing as a point of contact for a testimonial.

https://twitter.com/KareemAbukhadra/status/13280678353236254...

Is this just a funnel into that process or have you done something differently?

Hey! Really good pushback.

1. RE icloud email: That's his personal icloud email so it's unassociated with Apple.

2. RE is this a funnel into the tweet thread: Nope. I do think that's a really good strategy but doesn't tend to work for the best companies.

The main difference with this new approach is we write super tailored messages for you and go for decision makers, whereas the crunchbase approach I published is non-personalized and targets generic company email addresses.

Does that make sense?

I’m intrigued but is this a staffing service? Do candidates or companies pay for your services?

Right now candidates! My background is in sales and marketing so I'm better at helping candidates that I am at screening candidates.

In the future, I'll start helping businesses too.

“Land 10 interviews in a month with 0 effort” gives me pause, because even though “the grind” of getting a new job is annoying, there’s an understanding that results take effort. This tagline reads more like a scam for me and I go into it with that first impression.

Totally fair and really appreciate the honest feedback.

The idea is the candidate puts 0 time and effort in.

My team does A LOT on the back end.

I should probably make this clearer from the landing page.

Does that make sense?

I’m really not trying to be too snarky, but with the labor market as it is in 2021, 10 interviews in a month is achievable by merely possessing a pulse. What am I missing?

How many years of experience do you have? When was the last time you actively searched for a new job?

Agreed. Do a little SEO on your linked-in and have a little seniority and 10 isn’t unreasonable right now.

Super interesting. What's your background? Are you an engineer?

Just dug into it! Looks like you've done a lot and are a senior eng with a lot of experience - your in one of the most sought out roles so I'm unsurprised that you get a bunch of interviews consistently, and probably wouldn't be a fit for the tool.

Do you like the companies you get interviews at?

The site doesn’t really tell me much. Is this a service I have to pay for? A membership? Do you only accept a certain type of applicant profile?

All 3 is accurate. 1. Paid service 2. Monthly subscription so yes 3. Yes! We're results based so if we move forward with someone we can't help, we lose a lot of $$.

These questions are super helpful for telling me what to optimize - thank you for the feedback.

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