Over the past few days, I have reached out to all my competition I had listed but I didn’t have any luck getting a response back. It has been hard, I can’t lie. I reached out to Indeed.com, I reached out Baruch Starr Career Center, Linkedin, Monster, Glassdoor but so far, I could not schedule anything with any of my primary competition. Still awaiting reply. I reached out to many other start-up companies and few existing job agencies. I had to go through many customer service representatives and many emails and so far, I was able to reach one person. This lady Amy who is willing to answer my questions. She is an assistant operation manager at SimplyHired who has worked at this company for almost 3 years. I am still reaching out to some recruiting agencies around New York hoping to speak to them, if I manage to come to contact with anyone it’ll help me understand how their in-person interaction system works. Some of the key questions I have drafted up (so far) are:
- What is a valuable lesson about the job posting industry that you have learned from your experience that you can share with me?
- What percentage of your job seekers are college level students?
- What is one challenge your company faces trying to compete in this industry? What are some strategies that can be used to attract business?
- What is one area that you believe a company should prioritize in order to compete in this industry?
- What are some areas in the industry you see opportunities in? Why?
- Reflecting on your work with SimplyHired, what are some mistakes you would advise a start-up to avoid?
- What are your success ratios in terms of converting job seekers to succeed in getting a job?
Since my business idea is providing the value of opportunity in the form of jobs and internships to student? My supply side are the employees who often post job listings in websites like Indeed.com, Linkedin etc. Therefore, I emailed a few people who posted jobs on these sites and I was able to schedule a meeting with one person who works at RUN.ATL a marketing and advertising agency based in Georgia who had previous job postings on Indeed and Linkedin
. My objective is to ask him these few questions:
- What their experience of posting in these sites are?
- What is their success ratio in terms of hiring?
- How can these job postings and agency improve their supply of opportunity of their message?
- How many applications get noticed when processed through these websites?
- Why do they choose certain platforms to post their jobs as opposed to others?
- What is one area the job posting, and job agency industry can improve on?
Love the hustle! This is hard but you are trying. Have you heard of: https://www.producthunt.com/
You can search for new startups and maybe you will find a fellow early stage entrepreneur willing to chat with you? Look at WayUp or GoCommando as a start.
Someone from Indeed reached out and we have a short interview schedule for Thursday.
Someone from Baruch Career reached out and I’m awaiting for them to schedule me a time.
I reached out to WayUp after I posted this blog.
I wanted to ask you Professor, what did you think of my drafted questions? Do you see it following the purpose of questions you urged us to?