I’m working on a platform to filter out applications by:
1. Geo restriction (when required).
2. Skills required in the job (listed by employer). Any resume that don’t meet a percentage of required skills will be notified immediately after uploading the resume.
3. Filtering questions. That could be anything from skills, required certifications, ability to start in certain times.
It is an attempt though, I don’t know if it will work but to explain the reasons behind the platform:
1. The application rate of online jobs is less than 8% due to complicated long forms. Which means employers are missing many talented applicants. See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341263
To fix, I implemented an easy apply similar to LinkedIn. You only upload the resume, it will be parsed to validate skills.
2. With the remote work, there are companies who want to limit the remote to their own country or certain time zones. Writing that in the job description doesn’t stop people from applying. As you mentioned, ghosting is one of the main reasons why candidates apply to as many jobs as possible.
To fix, there will be a message saying the job is not available in your region when applying from outside the designated regions.
3. The skills filtering will help candidates to understand immediately why they had been rejected instead of just being ghosted. It will help in reducing the number of unqualified applications.
4. Filtering questions will be for things that can not be identified in resumes. That could be ability to relocation, having certain certifications, security clearance … etc.
Ideally it would be smart about the skills, and recognise how skills transfer between technology. I feel like this is a solvable problem with the right technology.
1. Geo restriction (when required).
2. Skills required in the job (listed by employer). Any resume that don’t meet a percentage of required skills will be notified immediately after uploading the resume.
3. Filtering questions. That could be anything from skills, required certifications, ability to start in certain times.
It is an attempt though, I don’t know if it will work but to explain the reasons behind the platform:
1. The application rate of online jobs is less than 8% due to complicated long forms. Which means employers are missing many talented applicants. See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341263
To fix, I implemented an easy apply similar to LinkedIn. You only upload the resume, it will be parsed to validate skills.
2. With the remote work, there are companies who want to limit the remote to their own country or certain time zones. Writing that in the job description doesn’t stop people from applying. As you mentioned, ghosting is one of the main reasons why candidates apply to as many jobs as possible.
To fix, there will be a message saying the job is not available in your region when applying from outside the designated regions.
3. The skills filtering will help candidates to understand immediately why they had been rejected instead of just being ghosted. It will help in reducing the number of unqualified applications.
4. Filtering questions will be for things that can not be identified in resumes. That could be ability to relocation, having certain certifications, security clearance … etc.