The Vervoe Experts Community - Help startups hire better, and get paid to do it

Thanks for hunting us Nichole! Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m Omer, co-founder and CEO of Vervoe. We're so excited to launch this community of seasoned tech folks who are willing to share their hiring expertise with startups (by designing interview scripts others can borrow from our library). If you're part of the community, you: +Earn royalties when startups use interview questions you write 💰 +Receive recognition as an expert in your field +Play a role in making startup hiring fairer, with less bias 💪 We've seen again & again that assessment-based hiring levels the playing field for candidates from underrepresented backgrounds, since it gives all applicants a chance to prove themselves. Our customers frequently tell us they hired people who previously wouldn't have made it past the initial resume screening. If you believe in increasing diversity in tech, this is an amazing way to contribute to the movement. Lastly, we'd also love your opinions and feedback. Here are a few questions we have: -What should authors be paid each time startups use their scripts to hire? -What sort of support can we offer to make it easier for authors to write great scripts? -Who's the best person in your field when it comes to assessing talent? (we'd love to meet him/her) -Omer

I've always been a believer in actually testing a candidate's skills before hiring them. I ask content candidates to do a sample blog post as part of the interview process. It's great to see a company recognizing this is important and creating a usable system to accomplish this at scale.

From experience, I know that hiring is daunting and I am so happy to see how Vervoe helps improve this process. I ask questions before and during interviews, but the Experts Community makes things easier to manage and saves a lot of time. Thanks for creating this!

I know the whole Vervoe team and I believe they're building something that in time will grow to a very recognizable authority in what they do. The experts community is one of those things that you want to be in early on, because later you might benefit from it in a huge way. For anyone who wants to be recognized as an expert and grow their influence, this is a must. Given it will only take a little bit of time and you might be the first person to contribute with your expertise for your specific niche. When you establish yourself early on as a top authority within the community, you will grow with it and come out at top as it gets bigger and bigger.

I wrote a script for their Experts Community for hiring a Customer Success Consultant for an early-stage SaaS and to my surprise someone bought it within a week or two. Delightful experience!

Pros:

I was able to easily write a script and I already got paid for it!

Cons:

Their platform is super new so of course there's a few things to iron out. :)

I took 30 mins to write a great script to hire a crypto/ICO community manager, but even pre-launch I've already had a payout that made the effort more than worth my hourly rate! And the next time that I hire someone in a field I don't fully understand, I'm going to ask Vervoe!

This is definitely an interesting product, particularly because the process of hiring can be such a blackbox for people who haven't done it before. Shortening that process through this kind of efficiency has the potential to matchmake significantly more people with the right companies it seems. Also of value is the culture factor, which we in startups take so seriously; knowing the right questions to ask a candidate--especially when those questions might be unique to a certain niche of an industry--have the potential not only to affect the company's hiring prospects, but shift the focus of the company to where it will be most beneficial long-term.

I'm digging what they are doing -- I like being able to choose from scripts when hiring outside my area of expertise and a much better way to hire than your standard ATS.

Looks awesome! Hiring is a huge bottleneck for startups and almost no one gets it right with a few (or many) hiccups. Pulling knowledge from those who have already experienced those hiccups and smoothed out their own process is a great idea.

So excited to see this community live, going to check it out!