Dropping my thoughts on potential solution for job board.
As mentioned by @daodir , the main challenge with any marketplace platform is the fact that the platform is only valuable if you have traction on both sides of the marketplace.
i.e. Job seekers will only use it if it has jobs and companies will only use it if it has job seekers.
Here is how I see that we could solve this.
Most companies of any scale use 1 out of about 4/5 applicant tracking systems which come with built in job boards that all have the same HTML mark-up. This means that by building 4/5 web scrapers you can build your own job data pipeline for most of the companies out there.
Many successful job boards built there product in this way, two examples:
This solves the two-sided marketplace challenge, at least in-terms of getting job onto the platform.
My concept expanded goes like this:
- As a community, we curate profiles for companies in the web3 and crypto space that basically solves the research challenges job seekers have when considering companies to work for:
- Summary of what the company does + history
- Funding situation
- Key people in the team
- Articles out there about them
- Projects they’ve deployed
- Social and web3 links
- Statistics taken from LinkedIn like number of employers, D&I statistics etc.
- On-chain statistics from their product (Easily automatable)
- and probably loads of other stuff I can’t think about
- We then scrape the jobs from their careers pages ever day and link to them on their company profile
- and use the network effect of the DAO to promote the board to attract applicants
- We track users and clicks on companies profiles pages and job postings and then once we have traction email those companies and go "Hey, we have sent XXX number of people to your careers page, fancying paying XXX (on-chain) to enrich the info on your profile or promote your jobs (less a fan of paying for outright promotion but an option)
- Whilst we do all this we can also build in more Web3 functionality, for example the on-chain resume concept that has been discussed here and in discord.
My thoughts are this would mean we can create and grow a job board build quickly and simply. Once it has traction we can then re-evaluate everything and potential build 1-to-1 integrations with job board providers, apps to allow companies to manage jobs and applications (even without their own job board that we’re scraping/ingesting from an API).
This is not the most Web3 approach however I believe it would have more impact in the short-to-medium term and help deliver on our mission, values and goals.
Interested to hear peoples thoughts on this. Written in a bit of a hurry so excuse any spelling and grammar 