[toomuchtodo]

I love the direction and attempt. What I think is needed to encourage good behavior is a system that scans company job postings, archives them (Internet Archive), performs analytics as to whether these jobs are being filled (compare to LinkedIn data as best as you can, there will always be leakage), and potentially report non compliance around salary transparency to whomever in each state regulates that. LinkedIn doesn’t care, state regulators aren’t going to do this.

Think in systems. If the desired outcome is more honest and transparent behavior from job posters, the way to get there is public data and analytics to suss out signal of undercurrent intent internally. It’s an observability platform at its core.

Consider partnering with the hiring.cafe folks (search HN for relevant threads) if you want to achieve scale wrt feedback capture from applicants to drive analytics.

[6stringmerc]

I’m doing a long term (read: takes months to collect data) investigative journalism piece regarding hiring practices in the United States that tracks with your musing. As in, I’m using tools to actually document who obtained positions and comparing those visible profiles and credentials with the actual listing put out by companies. The motivation has been through personal experience and seeing…patterns…that I wish to document to the best of my ability in a professional writing project.

I’d be willing to expand my scope if there is interest by any group or entity to support such a project - as in, expand my pool of people actively seeking and applying for jobs (in my case about 10 per week, all within reasonable % of qualification) to explore if data reveals any patterns. It’s a nuanced thing. Basically poking a hole in the “meritocracy” narrative is potentially able to expose other bias at play (age, gender, ethnicity) with a willingness to put such findings into a well researched article / study.

[pogue]

I'm unable to support, but can you share where you'll be publishing this so I can see it when it goes up?

[6stringmerc]

Found a flaw in my methodology but I’m continuing to work on it and unfortunately don’t have a timeline. I may need to partner with an established outlet to access the resources to get the data needed.

That said, I do have an article coming very soon about a related aspect of the application process.

[pogue]

Do you have a website/newsletter/social media or anything so I can find out when it gets eventually published

[dtgmzac]

Thanks for the suggestions! Internet Archive is a really interesting approach. I'd say there are a lot of tools out there that scan job postings and if there were some kind of open standard that everyone used, it would definitely make the job search more transparent.

[Schiendelman]

I could be mistaken, but doesn't Indeed do this already?

[toomuchtodo]

Indeed is an interested party, and their incentives do not align with the general public and jobseekers.