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misguided: in an effort to not disclose their willingness to pay, employers most often do not post the compensation details for a given position. This dynamic typically continues through the process; the application and interview take place before compensation is discussed. I love how Liz Ryan talks about this broken dynamic. Leveraging the traditional power dynamic between employer and applicant, companies often drive to force the applicant to disclose their reservation price. While this can be an effective negotiation tactic, as an approach to a conversation and potential long term relationship, it reflects an unhealthy dynamic and zero-sum mentality. This is one reason the majority of applications in [[Justin's dynamic application playground]] have salary or salary ranges listed; it's a screening criteria for me to consider a job.
BetterFit aims to solve these and other issues identified in the current state to make the matchmaking of opportunities and talent better, to help both parties find better fits to improve the dynamic for everyone involved and make the world a better place.
BetterFit is related to Schlep 2 Work: Proximity-based job searching made... smarter. Schlep to Work was born out of the shared experience of wasting hundreds of hours commuting: 3.4 million person years per year in the US, alone. We can do better.
As Schlep 2 Work was born of shared experience, BetterFit is a concept forged in the shared travail of job seeking and hiring. None of it seems to work optimally. The process causes frustration, consumes vast amounts of time, much of it wasted (see [[muda]]) fails to capture the full picture for either party, and as a consequence delivers suboptimal and sometimes downright poor outcomes.
We can do better. I met my partner on OK Cupid. We BOTH answered hundreds of questions EACH with varying levels of attributed importance and detail. Contrast this with the typical outside hiring process where a candidate applies based on a description of a job, the content of an about us page and sometimes colleagues or weak ties [[LinkedIn]] who work at the company of interest. How we can trust corporations aside, it is difficult to have much insight about the team before meeting them in person and typically this happens during 1-5 rounds of interviews. Oh the time we spend...
I've told a lot of people about Schlep 2 Work: where the BefferFit rubber meets the would-be and literal road; travelling hours and hours back-and-forth every day made me realize the dramatic inefficiency of our distribution at our various jobs. In major cities, it is a statistical certainty that two people are one-another's commute doppleganger's, if you will -- each one leaving a home close to the other's place of work where they do exectly the same job on the same team.
[[favorite rejection email templates]]
[[Funding links]]
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Neither employers nor potential employees are happy with the tools that exist for matching talent to
misguided: in an effort to not disclose their willingness to pay, employers most often do not post the compensation details for a given position. This dynamic typically continues through the process; the application and interview take place before compensation is discussed. I love how Liz Ryan talks about this broken dynamic. Leveraging the traditional power dynamic between employer and applicant, companies often drive to force the applicant to disclose their reservation price. While this can be an effective negotiation tactic, as an approach to a conversation and potential long term relationship, it reflects an unhealthy dynamic and zero-sum mentality. This is one reason the majority of applications in [[Justin's dynamic application playground]] have salary or salary ranges listed; it's a screening criteria for me to consider a job.
BetterFit aims to solve these and other issues identified in the current state to make the matchmaking of opportunities and talent better, to help both parties find better fits to improve the dynamic for everyone involved and make the world a better place.
BetterFit is related to Schlep 2 Work: Proximity-based job searching made... smarter. Schlep to Work was born out of the shared experience of wasting hundreds of hours commuting: 3.4 million person years per year in the US, alone. We can do better.
As Schlep 2 Work was born of shared experience, BetterFit is a concept forged in the shared travail of job seeking and hiring. None of it seems to work optimally. The process causes frustration, consumes vast amounts of time, much of it wasted (see [[muda]]) fails to capture the full picture for either party, and as a consequence delivers suboptimal and sometimes downright poor outcomes.
We can do better. I met my partner on OK Cupid. We BOTH answered hundreds of questions EACH with varying levels of attributed importance and detail. Contrast this with the typical outside hiring process where a candidate applies based on a description of a job, the content of an about us page and sometimes colleagues or weak ties [[LinkedIn]] who work at the company of interest. How we can trust corporations aside, it is difficult to have much insight about the team before meeting them in person and typically this happens during 1-5 rounds of interviews. Oh the time we spend...
I've told a lot of people about Schlep 2 Work: where the BefferFit rubber meets the would-be and literal road; travelling hours and hours back-and-forth every day made me realize the dramatic inefficiency of our distribution at our various jobs. In major cities, it is a statistical certainty that two people are one-another's commute doppleganger's, if you will -- each one leaving a home close to the other's place of work where they do exectly the same job on the same team.
[[favorite rejection email templates]]
[[Funding links]]