Real talk about Jobs, made by people currently on the job and job seekers — Job談
Job談 starts from the following problem statements:
(1) Why do companies demand exhaustive information from job seekers while opening only very limited information about themselves (desired candidate profile, values… and even those are empty messages that don't really differ between companies)?
(2) Wouldn't it help both companies and job seekers if, before applying, job seekers could know whether there's a Fit with the company/role (salary, company culture, benefits, workload)?
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Curious how we'd solve it?
- Reference sites -
www.glassdoor.com (US)
www.kununu.com (GR)
www.jobcrowd.com (UK)
Business Model (Six Slide):
1. Who is my customer and what problem do they have?
(Customer)
- Experienced workers / new grads who need to select and search companies (switching jobs / getting hired)
- Current employees who want to benchmark their As-is
(Problem)
- (Job seekers) The discomfort of having to decide without really knowing the company/role, and the side effects (poor fit / quitting)
- (HR managers) Workload from re-hiring and attrition
→ Job seekers (students preparing for jobs / people wanting to switch) have been relying on top-down information delivered one-way by companies and headhunters to make their job decisions. But because of the asymmetry of company/role information, job seekers inevitably have low negotiating power and suffer side effects (quitting / poor fit) as if buying a product they barely know. HR managers also groan under re-hiring costs and high turnover. Just as consumers try to learn everything about a product before buying to reduce the gap between expectation and satisfaction, the natural need to know the role and company well before applying remains unmet today.
2. What will you use to solve that customer problem?
- People currently or previously at the company — those who have actually experienced working there — evaluate the key metrics that matter to job seekers. Through this, we build a site of company/role reviews that are meaningful and trustworthy to job seekers.
(Differentiators)
- Unique: the only bottom-up solution among existing alternatives
- Credibility: evaluated by former/current employees — the most trustworthy approach
3. What core capabilities do you most need to solve the problem?
(Required capabilities)
- A living company/role DB (evaluated and written by current/former employees) that pulls in users
- Filtering / categorizing / indicator-izing the info so the DB is meaningful to job seekers
(Required resources)
- Resources (funding / people) to build the initial DB
- Planning / IT development / UI design capabilities
4. Revenue model?
(User — job seekers / current employees)
- Premium service (paid accounts by condition)
(Customer — companies)
- Paid company account (company's PR channel toward job seekers)
- Transaction fee (per job posting)
- Banner ads
5. Enter demo site / screenshot image link.
6. Introduce your team. (Wanted!)
Seed funding from a domestic business SNS company is confirmed; we're looking for members or a team to collaborate with Job談 and shift the way people think about Jobs.
Areas we're hiring for:
- Design
- Development
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If you're interested or have questions, feel free to reach out anytime! :-)
Im Seungmin / seungmin.im@gmail.com / 010.3799.3745
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(1) Background of the idea
Job談 is my story, holding the discomfort I felt through three job changes. It grew out of the common pain points I heard from many people I met on the job and from those who had changed jobs, which pushed me to pursue this idea.
[I'm currently in my 4th year of work, and during those four years I've changed jobs three times (twice at foreign companies, once at a Korean conglomerate).]
(2) Team composition
We're a team that can handle operations, active sales, and app/web development. Three members total.
