8 yrs ago, I started my career as an Analyst followed by Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Project Manager and few different roles in multiple industries. And every time I commited to a new role, I felt nervous as I didn't have much insight into how the company, people, culture and work environment are like. Luckily few of the roles and companies clicked really well and some weren't matching with my expectation and interests. It was hard to quit the roles that weren't a culture fit as a lot of time and effort went into each role both for me and the hiring company.
Since then, I was always doing a lot of manual research on company's culture and work environment before applying to the roles which did take good amount of time and resources. I was interested mainly around flexibility of roles like work from home, flexible start times and offices with lots of creative space where teams can brainstorm ideas and discuss freely. I looked around for a platform that provides this kind of information in the job search process but couldn't find much to my surprise. Although there are very few sites that give this information but they are niche sites. I felt there is still a need to build something that can cover wide range of roles and companies where everyone can explore and find suitable jobs and companies based on culture, benefits and work environment.
Finally, I'm here with "How's It Like" and eagerly waiting for your valuable feedback!
P.S I'm working on more add-ons for this platform which will be launched in the coming week. Hope this provides some value in your job search!
It looks like this suffers from the same problem as Key Values - the search is an 'or', not an 'and'. I want to know which companies meet all my desires, not just one.
Hi Dave. Happy New Year! Thanks for your valuable feedback. We are happy to inform that we have added this feature now and would be great to hear your feedback - https://www.howsitlike.com
Now you can switch on the toggle beside search option to find jobs only that match all the values you are interested in :)
Thanks for your feedback. I've researched both the options before working on this and there are hardly not many companies where all selected values would match if going with AND. We have around 37 values and each company has a different set of values. Instead we have built tags for each job that would highlight which of the selected values are matching. Additionally, I believe the search bar would help narrow down results to relavant job titles or location which would bring down the results to few. In those filtered results, if a company/job is matching all the values you have selected, it will highlight all of them in the job card. Hope this helps. Having said the above, we are expanding to more companies and roles and there could be 'AND' soon if we could see enough matches. Thanks again!
To be honest...I think this is a secondary concern. Your primary concern should be assigning the values correctly.
For example: If i select work from home, it returns Intuit, if I click apply, it takes me to their ATS...This is good, but it seems they are not offering work from home, so this result is false.
The reason why Key Values is enjoying some success is due to marketing. Right niche, good promotion, good design, good sales. (but even then, not that many companies have signed up. why not? They are probably aware of it.)
This format might work if you go after a different segment of the software industry (maybe?).
I am currently doing something similiar in a unrelated industry, it helps if you can talk the lingo, know some people etc.
P.s Unlesss the companies have already paid to be listed? Then, well done.
Thanks for your feedback. True, in terms of values we spoke to the companies and also employees working at each company before assigning a value to the company. Intuit does offer work from home and here is some public feedback on this benefit - https://www.glassdoor.ie/Benefits/Intuit-Work-From-Home-US-B...
As our product is just out, I believe it takes bit more time for traction but am working constantly to provide more value through the site. We thought of culture itself as a niche as only few companies have their culture defined and also that way we would be able to cover different types of roles and companies. We are on a mission to be the largest and finest culture fit job board. Would love to be the go to place for culture fit jobs in general. I'll promote this more once I have the ongoing features like blog, newsletters and company profiles are integrated so that it can be of more value to our users. Thanks once again for your inputs and a Happy New Year!
8 yrs ago, I started my career as an Analyst followed by Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Product Owner, Project Manager and few different roles in multiple industries. And every time I commited to a new role, I felt nervous as I didn't have much insight into how the company, people, culture and work environment are like. Luckily few of the roles and companies clicked really well and some weren't matching with my expectation and interests. It was hard to quit the roles that weren't a culture fit as a lot of time and effort went into each role both for me and the hiring company.
Since then, I was always doing a lot of manual research on company's culture and work environment before applying to the roles which did take good amount of time and resources. I was interested mainly around flexibility of roles like work from home, flexible start times and offices with lots of creative space where teams can brainstorm ideas and discuss freely. I looked around for a platform that provides this kind of information in the job search process but couldn't find much to my surprise. Although there are very few sites that give this information but they are niche sites. I felt there is still a need to build something that can cover wide range of roles and companies where everyone can explore and find suitable jobs and companies based on culture, benefits and work environment.
Finally, I'm here with "How's It Like" and eagerly waiting for your valuable feedback!
P.S I'm working on more add-ons for this platform which will be launched in the coming week. Hope this provides some value in your job search!