"We respond to candidate applications with a confirmation email that includes an opt-in link to allow their resume to be seen by other recruiters."
Uh....glad I saw this tucked away that the bottom, seems pretty sketchy.
EDIT: the blurb mentions that this is opt-in...does that mean as a collector I can opt-in to this being sent or that the applicant's resume will only be sent if they opt-in (but the ask is always sent)?
The candidate has to opt-in, but we do always send a request email. We're considering making it a paid option to disable those emails entirely, or customize them how you'd like.
We do want to be as upfront as possible about why this is a free service, so we hope we've communicated that effectively.
You wouldn't have read the front page for the product before purchasing it?
It's not like this is tucked away in the Terms of Use behind complex legal language. It is stated quite plainly on the landing page beneath a large header reading "Why is it free?"
Most people skim websites - they don't do a full read. And most people stop reading once they think they've gotten the gist of what it is. The large header reading "why is it free" is so far below the fold that I never saw it. I revisited the page 3 times and eventually found it by doing cmd+f and searching for "why is it free", and I could only do that because you said there was a header with that title there.
This is a huge deal to any business that takes themselves seriously, and when you bury the lead like this, it makes me not trust you. As I said before, this detail should be under the "pricing" text, since that's what every person who might use this service is going to be looking for, once they understand the basics.
And I'm a person who might have used this service. I keep a special gmail account for processing hiring applications. I'm their dream user. And I was misled so far that I don't trust them.
Meteor allowed us to prototype very quickly. We were able to build several different versions of the interface to see what worked, and then spent the majority of our development time polishing it.
Meteor being real-time also made some cool features really easy, like new candidates showing up in the inbox without having to refresh or poll.
Overall, I'd say development in Meteor was significantly faster than any other framework I've used.
Minor thing - On the big image, the user wouldn't know to mouseover on the tooltip. I accidentally found out - if I hover on the tooltip, it expands. May be you could put the expanded version by default?
We'd love to, but CATS has had 7 years of development now and has thousands of users, so rewriting it from the ground up would be quite the undertaking.
We'll definitely be using Meteor for any new side projects or external apps that tie in to CATS, though.
We hire fairly regularly. After skimming the page and glancing at the screenshots - as many of your prospects will do - I was left wondering why this is any better than letting people email me their resumes and applying labels to them.
If you hear this question more often, it probably needs to be addressed directly. Also, I've never found hiring by email to be a hassle; my pain point is finding good applicants and screening them - the latter is something Codility did a good job of helping with.
This is pretty great. As a developer looking for a job, I want the inverse of this. Something to track all the jobs I am applying for. Right now I just use http://www.streak.com/
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 44.7 ms ] threadUh....glad I saw this tucked away that the bottom, seems pretty sketchy.
EDIT: the blurb mentions that this is opt-in...does that mean as a collector I can opt-in to this being sent or that the applicant's resume will only be sent if they opt-in (but the ask is always sent)?
We do want to be as upfront as possible about why this is a free service, so we hope we've communicated that effectively.
It's not like this is tucked away in the Terms of Use behind complex legal language. It is stated quite plainly on the landing page beneath a large header reading "Why is it free?"
This is a huge deal to any business that takes themselves seriously, and when you bury the lead like this, it makes me not trust you. As I said before, this detail should be under the "pricing" text, since that's what every person who might use this service is going to be looking for, once they understand the basics.
And I'm a person who might have used this service. I keep a special gmail account for processing hiring applications. I'm their dream user. And I was misled so far that I don't trust them.
Any other surprises we should know about?
Meteor being real-time also made some cool features really easy, like new candidates showing up in the inbox without having to refresh or poll.
Overall, I'd say development in Meteor was significantly faster than any other framework I've used.
The landing page could use a little more explanation. I'm not sure how it works.
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Minor thing - On the big image, the user wouldn't know to mouseover on the tooltip. I accidentally found out - if I hover on the tooltip, it expands. May be you could put the expanded version by default?
Did you guys have any intentions of re-writing CATS to use Meteor?
We'll definitely be using Meteor for any new side projects or external apps that tie in to CATS, though.
If you hear this question more often, it probably needs to be addressed directly. Also, I've never found hiring by email to be a hassle; my pain point is finding good applicants and screening them - the latter is something Codility did a good job of helping with.