Can you roast my idea? Employee surveys for social media recruiting
Hi there.
Please give me good arguments not to pursue this idea:
A platform for tech companies looking for great talent.
Every week all employees receive 5 questions from a catalog of questions. The questions are aimed at the corporate culture. For example, what have you learned this week? How do you prioritize issues?
The HR manager receives the answers and can select the best ones and place them in a queue. From this queue, posts are automatically created on Twitter in the company account. This should help to give potential employees a good insight into the company culture and motivate them to apply.
Where do you see the biggest problems with this idea? Please don't be gentle. Thank you.
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Hi!
Few questions:
A platform for tech companies looking for great talent.
=> like toptal?
Every week all employees receive 5 questions from a catalog of questions. The questions are aimed at the corporate culture.
=> employees already working for some companies? So questions about culture of the companies they are working at?
This should help to give potential employees a good insight into the company culture and motivate them to apply.
=> so the aim is to attract potential employees with the answers on corporate culture of actual employees?
From this queue, posts are automatically created on Twitter in the company account.
=> what’s the link between twitter and the platform you mentioned?
Sorry if I completely misunderstood your idea!
Hi! Thank you, it is good to learn that I have to describe my idea better.
Like Toptal?
Employees already working for some companies? So questions about culture of the companies they are working at?
So the aim is to attract potential employees with the answers on corporate culture of actual employees?
What’s the link between twitter and the platform you mentioned?
What do you think?
Thanks, I think I have a better view of your idea now!
And what would be your typical personas using this platform? Tech people like web dev? Financial workers like accountants?
Personally, I used to work as an accountant for 4+ years in the same company. I quit after 4 years mainly because of two reasons:
So I imagine going to your website looking for a company for which I could work and checking if people there are actually happy before applying. Maybe I could also see comments from employees saying that the job is meaningful, the perks are good and the management cares about happiness.
That would indeed be cool!
Plus, if I were in a cool company, I would definitely answer few questions (maybe on a monthly basis) if those questions are really taken into account to improve the company / solve some issues.
What do you think?
(PS: happy if you could roast my idea as well: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-about-a-startup-framework-web-app-ba07f8636d)
Cool. Thank you! I gave you feedback on your idea as well. My product would be intended for engineers. At least in the beginning. But one thing I'm worried about are platforms like Glassdoor. If an employer is rated well at Glassdoor, that might be enough. Social media could be interesting to attract new talent, but not to show that the company is great in this case.
As a job-seeker, I don't ever get my company-culture-insights coming from the company channels. Of course they're going to make it sound great! I don't trust the company-driven voice, I want to get my specific questions answered truthfully.
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Thank you for your feedback!
I am aware of Glassdoor, and I hope there are two important reasons why this idea is different from Glassdoor.
Do you think these are valid points, or is the idea too similar to Glassdoor's concept?
You're thinking about things from the perspective of the employer. But from the perspective of candidates, they're looking for the most accurate information possible to avoid joining a company that's a nightmare to work for.
Glassdoor started out focused entirely on the experience of job seekers, which allowed it to attract enough of an audience and user-generated content that it can now approach HR departments at large companies and sell them premium accounts to create more beautiful company pages, highlight positive reviews, and otherwise marketing themselves.
To me, what you're describing doesn't sound very useful from the perspective of a job seeker, because as someone said above, I'm unlikely to trust the company's marketing about how great its culture is.
As for the company itself, based on the description you gave above, it sounds your entire product could be a SurveyMoney sent out to employees + a social media blast via a platform like Buffer. Which is to say, it doesn't sound like it would be hard for the employer to do themselves if they wanted to, which is going to make it harder for you to charge them for it.
You will probably need to sell this to HR, and I don't think many HR people hang out on IndieHackers, so you're probably not going to get great information from a bunch of developers / entrepreneurs on whether your idea will work.
Have you talked to any potential customers about your idea yet? What do they think of it?
Hi!
Thank you for your great feedback.
I agree, the product is not useful for job seekers. It's more for HR departments to make job seekers aware of the company.. And you are right, one could use Survey Monkey + Buffer. I'm not sure if this is convenient enough or not. If you have a solution that works frictionless, you can surely save some time. If someone would use Survey Monkey + Buffer, I think that would prove at least that there is a need.
That said, I haven't talked to potential customers yet. I'm trying to learn the challenges of this idea first, so I can have better conversations with potential customers.
Again, thank you for your comment. It is one of the most useful comments I have received so far.