A simple side project idea: custom careers/"we're hiring" pages for companies.
A simple side project idea: custom careers/"we're hiring" pages for companies. Very often companies want a careers page on their site. This would instead provide a simple hosted page or set of pages. The page can be themed with banner/company logo etc. and linked to your home page and have a company-specific subdomain e.g. my-company.career-page.com. It would include a contact form for people to upload their resume (perhaps customized application forms as a later feature). We can include view/application/response metrics, automated cross-posting to jobs sites etc.
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Like lever.co ?
That looks much more sophisticated than what I had in mind: perhaps targeted at the professional recruiter market or companies with large dedicated HR/recruitment teams?
May I add some thoughts to your idea:
I think there are country specific SaaS doing that, perhaps not integrated into the page, but with some kind of branding. In Germany, e.g., there is Softgarden.
Many companies post their openings on Monster, Stepstone, LinkedIn and so on.
It would be cool to have an “aggregator” that takes the jobs over an API (with duplicate recognition), and has a simple 90% popup on your company site (a JS drop-in). By that you have an integrated career section and only need to manage the jobs where you already post them.
Another topic worth discussing: how to market it to companies (plugin to CMSs, Zapier, SEA?).
My back of the envelope idea would be:
Simple admin tool for creating/editing positions. You might have templates e.g. you might want to add "position is located in London" or "we are an equal opportunities employer" in every position, or perhaps different templates for positions in each branch office or team.
An API for making these positions public and accepting resumes and contact info.
Plugins to consume the API across common platforms such as WordPress for easy integration with your own site.
Optionally hosting the careers page under a subdomain as described above. This might be more useful for startup companies who just want a quick up-and-running solution for hiring than keeping everything inside their own branded site.
Eventually we might want more sophisticated things like workflow management and response metrics but I feel this goes outside the scope of being a small side project: resumes/contact info can just be stored with email notifications to relevant people.
Many companies need what you describe. Some companies have invested in this, but others are just doing the best they can with a page in WordPress or other CSM. There is a lot of easy research you can do on the market and demand for these tools because human resources and recruiting are established markets.
I'd suggest talking to some folks who've had to recruit or interview people and find out the problems with their current solutions. There are a lot of workflows in this area, especially as companies get larger and have interview loops with multiple interviewers. There is also a checklist that many recruiters need to follow to complete a hire. Supporting that workflow with software could be helpful.
There are also independent recruiters who connect people specific roles. Building software to help them do their job would be helpful. They have multiple workflows around recruiting, but also coaching candidates, managing requests from companies looking to hire individuals.
Actually I've had to do this myself on occasion - updating a web page when HR need to post a new position. Larger companies (and recruiters who do this as their core business) will have their own CMS/CRM and workflow and are unlikely to need this, but it might be useful to a number of small to medium sized companies and organizations that just need a simple tool to keep their open positions up to date.
@csallen profitable idea?