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by brent_noorda 2864 days ago
Huge need for something like this, but I think the business model here doesn't work. Entry-level employees are a dime a dozen ($0.10/12), but you're asking employers to pay $99 ($99/1) to post a job. In other words, you're asking employers to pay over 1 million percent more to advertise than entry-level employees are worth.

I've been wondering about a service just like this a lot recently, because I recently graduated from nursing school and am looking for an entry-level nursing job. Finding who is hiring new nurses is proving exceedingly difficult, as each employer is on their own schedule and uses their own unique language to describe their new-nurse jobs. ("new-grad", "residency", "training", "TTP", "T2P", etc... while "entry-level" usually has a completely different meaning)

I, and thousands of other new nursing graduates, would gladly pay you $99 each month just to know where the new-nurse jobs are, while the employers wouldn't want to pay you anything. Consider this: compared to the tens of thousands of dollars to get through school and our eagerness to start repaying those loans, another $99 for a few months is no big deal.

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I wouldn't feel quite right about charging the job seekers as typically a lot of them are unemployed and thus money can be tight. The incentive for a company here would be cheaper labour so its already a saving for them by having a large pool of potential junior or entry level candidates to advertise to.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give your feedback, I will take it into consideration and see how things work out as time goes on for the site :)

Where you able to find some suitable nursing jobs on the site? If not I will see what I can do to make sure those results are coming onto the site for you and your fellow nurses looking for those jobs.

For most states, no nursing jobs on your site. They're hard to find (none of the aggregators do well) for the reasons I mentioned. Most of us take 6-12 months or more to get our first job and we mostly learn about them through social connections. If you want to know a lot more, send me an email and I can dump everything I know about this on you. Since I was a darn good programmer (and a barely-passable entrepreneur) for over 30 years I'm also glad to share any discussions about how this task might be tackled.
Just sent you an email :)