I'm building a reverse job board for product designers: an ideal role board.

Are there public facing profiles that I can see, or are they all gated behind an account and paywall?

Thank you! I dig honeypot as well, plus the name is a nice nod to devs =)

For context, in MyPerfectJob, all you see before contacting a person is their initials and you can't see the name of the company they work at, so it's very anonymous. Therefore, current employers can't see any current employees either.

I like the tech idea, I have a few nods to this, but nothing as explicit -- as this platform matures, customization based on role is likely a path to explore.

Cheers, thanks for the follow on twitter!!

Amazing; thank you so much =)

I’ll definitely connect with you and we can find time to sync up next week or so.

I’ll dig into your project as well — it seems like this is the future of hiring (hopefully) 🤘👍🏻

Same here. I valued the idea and started filling out a profile, but after onboarding, I landed on a "not found" page.

I liked that everything was anonymous and focused on the ideas! I look forward to seeing the product grow.

Thanks! The first step for me is just getting profiles added, then connecting with recruiters and some companies I know to get their feedback. A lot of unknowns, but I'm excited to keep digging here =)

Yes! That's the goal for sure =)

Example: recruiter is hiring for a music start-up and they want a growth designer. They can do a quick search to find a handful (or more) of profiles who match this, and then decide who to contact from these. Wouldn't that be a more interesting way to try to hire great candidates??

Thank you though!

Thank you! How is your site going? Are you all finding success with anything in particular?

Ask and you shall receive! I updated the messaging to be more broad for all of product (designers, managers, marketers, and developers). I'd love it if you gave it a whirl now, and shared with colleagues if you think it's useful =)

Thank you; me too! That's exactly the goal I have in mind: reducing time to finding the right candidates for roles. I am hoping to move beyond product design soon -- it started as having every/any type of role, but I wanted to start small to get some traction but there's no reason this can't work for any role =)

Good points -- I try to incorporate accessibility, but I can update contrast for sure; thanks for the suggestion =)

Thank you!!

For your question, it's a good one -- I don't 100% have the answer, but once there are enough good candidates on here, this is where recruitment can start from.

If you work in-house or external, the value prop is why not start from a pool of candidates that want to do this job in this industry, and even for this company.

That's the goal really, to cut down that hoping of aligning on what the company wants and what the candidate wants.

So at this point, it becomes an education piece.

Awesome! Thank you Nick! Yes, the original idea was any job type, and that's still the plan, but focusing on designers to try to get some traction.

Another facet here is that companies can browse profile of people who want to work for them --- loads of interesting opportunities to do there. For example: https://myperfectjob.club/explore/company/figma

Thank you!! I agree 100%, on both fronts. I started with the idea of any person using this, and that's still the long-term goal b/c there's no reason not to. However, to try to get some traction I wanted to niche down to product design.

And understanding what people want from ideal roles (i.e. what are the real factors that motivate people at work) could be a gold mine. For now, I just want to try to help people do what they really want to though =)

Want to give it a try and create a free profile?

Yeah, I've connected with a few -- conceptually I do agree with you, so the layout and presentation can be adjusted easily, it's the data we're capturing that is the most important part. Once there are a handful more profiles on there, I also think it will be easier for actual recruiters to give more tangible feedback.

This is meant to be more of a sniff-test and zeroing in on X candidates that look good AND show interest in a given role / business type / company. There would still be deeper conversations past this.

However, this is great pushback / feedback -- thank you!

Thank you!! Yes, I have -- it's all anonymous until a person hiring decides to contact you. I.e. all you see is the person's initials and what they are doing, and what they want to be doing. I am also hoping to help take bias a bit out of the process, obviously it can't be removed 100%.

Thanks! I much appreciate the questions here --- I am not sure what you mean by body leasing, if I am being honest, however.

I have no revenue yet, still need to prove lots of things out, but the idea is solid (even if I am not the one to crack it). I haven't seen a Honeypot profile, so I can't say yet how it would be different there, but for a company hiring, I can see all profiles (just not names) and explore by different facets (power search features are hidden until more profiles exist) and ideally focus in on 2-5 candidates that really meet their needs.

I haven't fully validated it (i.e. paying customers) but I did speak with 4 recruiters that showed a lot of interest, if the supply side was strong enough.

I am just trying to get any leads I can now on the candidate side before starting to even make a play for the hiring side, so lots more to come there.

There might not be enough details on the profile, but trigger-based emails to nudge candidates to add more is on my radar, but this is also not meant to replace LinkedIn or normal recruitment processes. It's meant to make it easier to find ideal candidates to start from.

I'd love to go full-time, but that is still a long-ways away =)

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Thank you again for the detailed questions here!

Thank you! I am really hopeful it can have a positive impact, including the bias and diversity angle as well as so much can be done there.

I’d love to connect — I’ll do so next week if that works for you 🤘