Employers and job seekers often face significant challenges in finding the right match efficiently. The current job market is saturated with numerous job listings and candidates, making it difficult to navigate and find suitable matches. This inefficiency leads to wasted time and resources for both parties.
Pain Points
- Time-consuming process for employers to find the right candidates
- Difficulty for candidates to find relevant job listings
- Presence of scam job postings
- Low-effort job posts cluttering the market
- Inefficient search mechanisms
*Quick backstory (feel free to skip):* I've thought about starting a job board for 17 years but never had the drive to give it a go. Whilst my ideal job board is far beyond my development skills (zero) and budget (almost zero), I've recently found a white label solution which offers many features that I like and I'd like to test the waters with it. The main premise of the job board is reducing time for employers to find the right candidates and for candidates to find the right jobs. It will include; moderated job listings to ensure no scam jobs and no low effort job posts. Job, candidate and employer tags designed for easy searches both ways and various other features. *The Question:* I have the following options for niches and looking for any feedback on the points I've made or anything else I should consider? **Sales Jobs** * 81k Google searches last month * I have three years sales experience so have subject knowledge and can more easily write SEO content * Can write SEO content on subjects such as different types of sales jobs, career paths, qualificiations, industries etc. * Could also focus more on specific jobs such as Field Sales/Business Development Manager which have combined Google search of 3k last month but has a 20% decrease in searches from last year - my sales experience also comes from field sales/business development * One of the UKs largest job boards already runs a seperate, specific job board for sales jobs and there are several other competing job boards/recruitment firms **Waste Management Jobs** * 2k Google searches last month which is up 36% from last year so possibly indicates a trend? * I'm familiar with the industry as this was my sales experience * Can write SEO content on subjects such as different types of jobs, career paths, qualificiations, entry routes etc. * Some competition in the way of two waste management specific recruitment firms but no dedicated job boards **Jobs in my local town** * 7k searches last month * Would be more of a general job board so competing with the likes of Reed, Indeed etc. * Can apporach businesses F2F and play on the "local business" card * Probably easier for targeted SEO due to locality (based purely on my limited knowledge of SEO) * A few dedicated recruitment firms and job boards **Jobs along the M4 Corridor** * The M4 corridor is the name of the area surrounding the motorway/highway that connects London to Bristol, which is a major city, in the UK * Two cities, several large towns, many more small-medium towns along the route * Tens of thousands of Google searches for jobs within towns and cities along the M4 corridor but no searches specifically for "M4 corridor" so possibly challenging to match SEO to job board theme * Could slect certain niches to focus on including tech, creative and logistics which are all major industries here * One recruitment firm dedeicated to this area
A tool designed to streamline the job application process by finding and ranking job postings, tailoring resumes, providing AI reviews, and tracking application status.
Hey! Here are a few lessons and context I picked up over the last few months. To build something that people rely on you must: 1. Deeply understand the PROBLEM of what you're solving 2. Put yourself out there rather than slapping features and hoping for the best For some context: I got really frustrated wasting time copy pasting content between ChatGPT and Word/LaTeX files, finding job postings where I'd be a good fit, and actually tailoring my application for them. Other platforms did not work for me since they were either too expensive, looked horrible, didn't tailor well enough without consulting me. So I built [HiredUp.dev](http://hiredup.dev/) with a very simple agenda. \- Finds and ranks job postings across the best VC-backed companies \- Tailors my resume \- Gives VERY detailed AI reviews and suggestions \- Allows me to track every role from 'applied' to 'interviewed' to 'offered' I had a very clear plan on what the BARE minimal viable solution would look like, because I genuinely felt the pain and patience draining by wasting my time on other platforms. Since my peers and I were all seeking internships during that time, I simply built the tool and we all chipped in money for the AI costs. We all spent 2+ hours on it pretty much everyday and slowly a lot of our friends from our campus started using it too. In-fact, it went semi-viral on campus LOL and sometimes caught people I didn't know using it. My analytics showed about the same 10-15 people came back and used the app every single day so I decided to offer gift cards to a few and ask them for BRUTAL feedback. This probably was the best thing I did since it made the tool that was only personalized to me, highly adaptive to other users as well. After implementing their requests I just stopped writing code because it got really draining. I wanted to scale first to even see if there's a point on feature-slapping more and more because I complete. I went where I thought my users would be - subreddits, campus events, tiktok, etc. and just started offering general advice on how I landed my internships and I how I used my own app to get me there. This helped a ton on Tiktok! I made slideshow videos, just answering comment questions and repeated that until I hit 2k+ users.