Comment Make the site work for both sides. (Score 1) 642
I've been on both sides of the hiring process. From my experience (and a past dream to compete with these sites):
- There is a HR-XML standard, which defines a resume/cv standard. The site should allow you to upload one, that fills in the profile. Spending an hour filling in forms for stuff that's mostly in my resume already is a pain. Especially doing it across multiple sites.
- Offer more to the job posters than just posting. Give them tools to make it eaiser to sort through the applicants that they want to see. IME one job posting generated 200+ emails from the job site, with the applicants resumes mangled. The hiring manager spent 1-2 printing them, and another 3-4 hours reading through all of them just to see which ones matched the base skills posted. Only 30-40 did. Go through this process one or two times, and recruiters seem like a good idea to companies.
- Standardize the job posting text. "About the company" is fine, but I don't want to decipher the marketing crap of why the company is great just to find out what the position is for. For me at least, tell me about the job first, then the company. I would love it also if I could hide the "about the company" text.
- Some kind of feedback loop to all those applied. The posting site knows who applied. Why not give the hiring people a nice little button "We hired this person".. that sends an email to everyone else stating that the position has been filled.
- Some way for seekers to markup their resumes and point it to the job description. So if Company A requires 8 yrs of C++ experiance, I can highlight that section in the job posting and link it to the relevant sections in my resume.
- There is a HR-XML standard, which defines a resume/cv standard. The site should allow you to upload one, that fills in the profile. Spending an hour filling in forms for stuff that's mostly in my resume already is a pain. Especially doing it across multiple sites.
- Offer more to the job posters than just posting. Give them tools to make it eaiser to sort through the applicants that they want to see. IME one job posting generated 200+ emails from the job site, with the applicants resumes mangled. The hiring manager spent 1-2 printing them, and another 3-4 hours reading through all of them just to see which ones matched the base skills posted. Only 30-40 did. Go through this process one or two times, and recruiters seem like a good idea to companies.
- Standardize the job posting text. "About the company" is fine, but I don't want to decipher the marketing crap of why the company is great just to find out what the position is for. For me at least, tell me about the job first, then the company. I would love it also if I could hide the "about the company" text.
- Some kind of feedback loop to all those applied. The posting site knows who applied. Why not give the hiring people a nice little button "We hired this person".. that sends an email to everyone else stating that the position has been filled.
- Some way for seekers to markup their resumes and point it to the job description. So if Company A requires 8 yrs of C++ experiance, I can highlight that section in the job posting and link it to the relevant sections in my resume.
