| Before you pour in personal money, you should really think twice if you want to enter this market. The employer-employee matching market is pretty fucked up in my opinion and personally, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. It feels horribly broken and I understand why so many people try to get into the market. There surely must be an easier way to match employees with employers than everything out there yet. My main objections are: - This is not a technical problem. Matching employees to employers feels like an easy problem but is incredible hard. Hence, there are assessment centers and headhunters. Do they work? Some articles pop up on HN every few weeks that suggest that they don't. - In my opinion, it is not even a problem. Top talent isn't hired by match-making platforms. So you try to match average Joe with average jobs. For this job, a simple job description should be sufficient (and it is, mostly). - Match-making platforms are easily game-able, because they're only an intermediate step. The goal is to get a job interview, thus it's better to game the system as an employee than to play by the rules - "My PHP skills are a 7 out of 10, you're looking for at least an 8. Am I really a 7?" -> there's no objective way to judge skills. It depends on the job and on the employer. Thus, the best solution is to put as many skills as possible with the highest points as possible. - Try to think of this "problem" by comparing it to housing-platforms. You're looking for a 2 bedroom appartment. It should be bright, not much noise, under 1000$. Surely, you can now filter search results, but a match is done in real life. There's no way to tell if the appartment is really for you unless you've seen it with your own eyes and got a feeling. The same is true for jobs. There's no way to tell if someone is a good fit without having human contact. For appartments, a simple appartment description is enough. Why would you try to apply sophisticated matching-algorithms to human beings? The only way this might work is if you try to target a specific niche that you really know a lot about. |