[kops]

> Discover companies and roles you've never considered

Can't resist saying that linkedin already does that. The kind of jobs they keep suggesting to me are just hilarious.

Your site looks good. Just checked a familiar company's listing. It looked nice.

And I agree, if you are targeting recent graduates, then search by degree is a good starting point. Ideally you should be able to read my mind and my dreams :-), but as a startup going by something that you can feed straight into a simple algorithm is the way to go.

[mikejobgps]

Hi kops, thanks for your comment. The LinkedIn algorithm suggests my software engineering friend to be the head of legal at an investment bank, not ideal.

What kinds of things would you be looking for on a job platform (which can hopefully read your mind and dreams?)

[kops]

As I said college degree is a good starting point. Next you could collect a few other pointers such as the optional courses a student has taken, their interest in particular industry or field, the people they admire, the place/country they would like to work in etc. All of these can serve as signal to what this person wants. You can even collect these attributes, and some data about the people who are already successful in the industry and build a neural network or some other algo that predicts the most fruitful path for a graduate. All this will give you signals where to concentrate your efforts w.r.t. an individual.

As for reading my mind, that's a little more involved and probably unprofitable/unscalable venture. But just because you asked, i will take a shot. I have always thought about a placement agency where I am not the one being sold but I buy the services of this agency to be on a lookout for jobs/opportunities for me. If this agency manages to become reputable, then companies will seek their help to staff their projects. Once the project is over I move to next interesting thing regardless of the company. I imagine this sounds like a very good consulting firm, but in my version the agency is to be honest to make its money purely from me either as direct fees or retainer or whatever. I should not have an iota of doubt that they will sell my resume to xyz company for a bunch of money and shaft me. The customers of this company will be people like me who are introverts and absolute retards at networking. That's not a pledge to buy anything :-) I think what you are doing is good. Stick to it :-))