What about niche job boards?
👉 The idea
I recently started working on a niche job board specialized in remote programming jobs. Remote jobs are becoming a reality and the coding niche (of remote niche) is one of the largest.
👉 The problem
As you know, there are a lot of remote job board (Remotive.io, weworkremotely.com, Remoteok.io and a lot more). Where is the problem? Too much job boards to surf, a lot of time wasted and a lot of difficult on finding great remote jobs.
👉 The solution (maybe?)
A job board specialized in remote programming jobs where anyone can search for remote job filtered for programming language (Eg. Javascript, Perl, Python...). Where is the difference? The difference is that I will only list hand-pick the best jobs from 60+ job boards.
This allow users to have a clean job board with high quality and well paid remote jobs.
That's obviously my vision but, what do you think?
Thank for your time if you decide to give feedbacks :)
I don't think that's niche enough in my opinion. For example https://stackoverflow.com/jobs you can filter by remote jobs and by programming language, and I'm sure other sites let you do that too. With narrowing it down to 60 best jobs you'll have the issue of determining what "best" is since everybody will think differently, also handpicking will be a lot of work, plus people typically want to see more job options than less. I think if you wanted to make this work you could potentially build an "AI" of sorts that curates the best jobs for a user based of specific criteria they enter and then maybe mail it to them weekly in a newsletter?
Hi @Harrjm! Thanks for your feedback! Btw I've dropped the idea. I'm a front end dev and (actually :D) I'm not able to create an AI, but that's a great idea. Automated, useful, and most of all, scalable. Nice input :)
I'm primarily a front end dev as well, and I was using AI lightly it could just be "curated" by running a list of jobs through filters to determine which is best. But yeah keep noodling it I'm sure there is some gap in the market to hit. My most recent job board idea was for providing a hosted careers page for small businesses (or large businesses if they want them) so that they could add a career page to their website with no-code. Then any jobs they added to the page would also be added added to a searchable public facing job board. So instead of charging companies to add a listing to your job board they would just pay to have your hosted careers page and it would automatically add to the job board. I never went anywhere with the idea though.
You will still run into the problem that 80% of jobs, even remote ones, are filled internally or via networking. They aren’t posted to job boards or even advertised at all.
If you could blowup the ATS monopoly...that would be a hell of a problem to solve! 👍
True, but IMHO not at all. If a company is searching for a new developer remotely, it could be great to promote the job to the right personas. Ghost, Coinbase end also Facebook are promoting on external websites. That's because a job board has more visibility than the Facebook career page for example. More visibilty means more candidates and more candidates means more probability to find the right dev.
Or not?
I don’t disagree, but if only 20% of jobs are posted at all, including a corporation’s own job board, then when you separate the wheat from the chaff, the pool of available positions becomes that much smaller, while the niche crowd becomes that much larger due to the hyper focus.
I don’t see how it solves a problem, but the potential is there to create an even bigger problem.
Thank you! Appreciated you feedback :)