Hey everyone - I'm the CEO of Drafted, the tiny team behind Job Grader in Boston, and excited to be on Product Hunt today!
We see this as a fun starting point for everyone to think about writing better job descriptions. We'd love to hear suggestions of more analyses that you'd like to see, and other improvements that would be helpful. Thanks!
@pseudovirtual congrats! Just wrote a new job description for Drift last night and plugged it in here. Good stuff. What do you think the future of this is for you guys?
@davegerhardt we definitely want to give more actionable insights on existing metrics - e.g showing you all the buzzwords in your post. We're also hoping to find hidden correlations to help uncover tricks to optimize job postings.
Our goal at Drafted is to make tools that help employers hire and help the community around them have a better experience. Being able to measure the effectiveness of job descriptions is a first step toward that.
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@pseudovirtual I just sent this to our entire team! We live and breath JDs - so this is a really slick and fun tool. Nice work!!!
@pseudovirtual Just tested it on our job descriptions at Sqreen and It seems we have a super low buzzword score. I suggest adding a "no bullshit score" when buzzords < 5 ;-) Plugin would be great !
Love this concept. There's been a lot around this issue lately that people write job descriptions that unconsciously weed out applicants like women and minorities. Plus there's so much time, money, and effort spent on where you post, but not nearly enough around what you post.
This will remind people of Hubspot's website grader, which is a good thing.
@mvolpe Thanks Mike! We're hoping to improve this over time, by incorporating more data sources and results from more studies around other kinds of bias, too.
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JD's have been chronically flawed for many years. Often the reality of the actual activities performed, once hired, vary widely from the job description. Many times compensation and required experience and/or education are completely out of balance with the value the employer seeks in return. Maybe this app will begin to reduce the chronic distortion.
@jimcanto These are some great points. I've found that these distortions often happen because JDs are written for multiple audiences (e.g for exec approval, for agency specs, and also for applicant-facing job boards). Thanks for trying it out :)
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