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by Silhouette 2273 days ago
Looks like it could be useful in the current climate.

You might like to consider whether allowing the linked job details to be hidden on walled sites like LinkedIn is harming your signal/noise ratio. Opinions among the good people I know are pretty divided about even the more credible sites, some arguing they can still be a useful source of good leads, others that they're just recruiter spam magnets and more trouble than they are worth. Anecdotally, as one of the latter group, if I'd been looking right now then I'd just have had a poor first experience of your site and probably wouldn't bother bookmarking.

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Hi! So the plan is to include job details on the primary site (i.e. gowfh.com) itself, but if I'm hearing you right, the website shouldn't list jobs that require you to sign in to be able to see the job details and/or apply - right?
That might be an improvement. Those kinds of listings are of no immediate value to someone who doesn't use whatever site they redirect to. More than that, though, they could make your site look like just another middleman trying to muscle in between viewers and the real source. The web is full of low quality sites like that, and usually they're somewhere around the clickbait to scam part of the scale, which I assume isn't the impression you're hoping to create.

This is just MHO, of course, and keep in mind that I'm not actually in your target audience at this stage in my career. I might simply be past the point where I'm willing to play those games and lucky enough to have better options by now, so take anything I'm writing here with a large pinch of salt.