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That statement does seem a little worrying to me. I know it's a chicken-and-egg problem, but how will you keep building traffic unless the quality really is very good?
And if anything, it will be easier to enforce that now than later. The site does seem to have a good number of jobs for being so young already, but it's still at a nice level where you can manually screen every application.
Maybe one way to separate jobs from ownership stakes would be another tab in the "Browse" section for "Equity"? In the same way that a job can be both Freelance & Remote Friendly, this could be a good way to keep certain jobs separate?
Enforcing quality is the best way to stand out I think; there are hundreds of job boards out there.
One thing I like about yours already is that quite a few specify the salary range. That's the sort of information that makes it higher quality to me.
After going back and reading the big blurb on the homepage, I can see a mention about the recruiters now, but really, who reads big blurbs like that?
I just think yous need to do more to emphasise the quality angle and stand out from the hundreds of sites that just bought a job board WordPress theme.
The site is largely still in an MVP sort of state and we're trying to start off giving the message of 'being different' by way of our own presence and interactions with people. We release early and often (though it's been a busy couple of weeks since launch so we've not been able to do as much as we'd like) but not all the things on our roadmap are suitable for that. Some things, like this, we see as deserving more time to get right before rolling out.
Always interested in hearing any feedback, good or bad, so have at it!
Depends on your perspective really. The company is legit and the ad is for a technical co-founder. If you apply and are successful then you have a job to do.
If you're set on allowing them at the very least can you provide an option to filter these out? You allow for filtering of all other types so it seems sensible people (like me, or maybe just me...) can get rid of the university student with an idea type postings.
There is no barrier to entry on having an idea, anyone can have an idea, a non-technical co-founder can spend half an hour thinking of a name and pitch and then make a post on your site, that is (to me) not the sort of thing I expect from a job site.
Once we have a healthy flow of traffic we intend to lay down a few ground rules to help increase the overall standard of jobs that appear on the site.
In terms of filtering out those jobs, we're working on that already. We've been waiting for the database to grow as it was overly restrictive when there were only a few pages of jobs on the site.
I was really commenting on "We've been waiting for the database to grow as it was overly restrictive when there were only a few pages of jobs on the site". If you have high standards for jobs being posted, I'd suggest you apply them with full rigor now rather than waiting till later. As my impression of the site now affects whether I'll remember you guys in 6 months time.
I'm of the opinion that co-founder searches aren't really valid, but if they are seperated into a targeted site then thats just as good for me.
It's might seem counterintuitive now, but letting a lower standard in now will set the tone for the site - and that not only affects the standard of job-posters you attract in the future but also the standard of potential hires you can attract.
What will impact your growth is offers no one is interested in. Better to post a few jobs that everyone is talking about than have 100's of jobs no one is talking about.
set.the.tone.early.
Simplicity & quality was always top priority for us.
One of my biggest bugbears with job boards is the sheer amount of pointless clutter, share buttons, ads, external links, promo fields, etc.
We want to avoid that slippery slope like the plague!
Applicant Quality: Top 50% 25% 10% 5% 1% 0.5%
Salary for this pos: Top 50% 25% 10% 5% 1% 0.5%
In short, it would be great to call out those companies that want employees in the top 1% but are only willing to pay in the top 50%
Every single employer values the top 1% differently. Take permanent Ruby Developers for example, I know of a company who's valuation for the top 1% is absolutely spot on. I know of another company in the same area that values the top 1% at about £10k less per annum. The point is, they both genuinely understand what the skill level and experience level of said 1% is, they just significantly disagree on the value of said 1%.
What I need:
* A wide range of employers who provide a shortlist of what they consider to be the factors that define the top 1%, 20%, & 50% in any given skill set plus a respective list of appropriate salary levels for said skill set.
* A list of employees who fit into each criteria and their average, current salary.
You would then need to source that data for every geographic region.
TL;DR: It's theoretically possible, it simply requires a lot of grunt work and co-operation & honesty from employers & employees.
One job you dislike doesn't imply the overall quality is poor.
The specific role you're referring to is a paid internship and they specify Have you played around with the platform?. Not exactly a high barrier of entry to a company that is known to be one of the better Android publishers out there.
We want the site to be as clean and as seamless as possible so adding further caveats to 'Remote' positions might be counter-productive.
Location search is a definite requirement however the site in it's current format is almost entirely in MVP stage and we will roll out features and upgrades over the coming weeks and months.
Right now the only solution is to do a keyword search on your area which isn't ideal but it usually works.