This is an interesting thesis. How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards?
Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.
How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards?
I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers.
My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existing platforms is a contributing factor to the problem I'm trying to solve. Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and whatever other generic job boards are just that - generic job boards. They have no reason to care about this niche any more than the other thousands of job categories out there. LinkedIn is becoming Facebook for wackjobs in work influencer clothing. Even StackOverflow Jobs tends to equate this type of work to general software engineering, when it requires very specific, critical knowledge you typically don't get until you're pretty deep into an EE curriculum.
Add value to the Users - the job seekers - and you start to build trust and aggregate supply. The savvy recruiters follow that. Our clickthru metrics already reflect this.
A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.
That the crux of my point. I don't care about non-specialists. I care about recruiters who need to find people to write Verilog or VHDL. If I can become one of their "one or two more platforms" besides LinkedIn, I've made it.
Next up, Leetcode for VHDL/Verilog. Heck what's stopping LeetCode for LtSpice/Altium/Solidworks. Create artificial Supply crunch and You have the exact same scenario playing out in Software engineering field where candidates jostle for "highly competitive jobs" where they are put through a hazing routine called "white board interview". I visited the SAC Goldrush museum recently and came away from this fact embedded deep in my brain" When there is a goldrush, always sell Shovels". You seem to have trailblazed that path for me. So Thank You!
There used to be a similar site for compiler jobs. I think the niche exists. If you can prove you can attract that audience with high-quality postings, I think it can work.
