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Ask HN: Why don't more companies post to SlackAtWork.com?

1 pointsby jamey-ahaalmost 8 years ago
Raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and being valued around $5 Billion, Slack is a juggernaut.<p>They offer a free job board for paying customers but there are only 30 jobs posted.<p>Why don&#x27;t more people post to job boards that they have easy access to? Seems like an easy win for most organizations looking to hire.

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twobyfouralmost 8 years ago
1) awareness. I didn&#x27;t even know that site existed<p>2) Chicken and egg problem &#x2F; opportunity cost. Every additional site I post a job on costs me time in posting the job and making sure the formatting works on that site. (The latter is a non-trivial time-sink). A site that has only 30 jobs probably isn&#x27;t getting enough traffic from job seekers to be worth my time and energy.<p>3) I have no particular interest in reaching a pool of candidates whose only outstanding characteristic is that they want to use Slack at work.<p>4) Saying we use Slack at work does little to nothing to differentiate my company from those with whom we&#x27;re competing for talent. Really, it doesn&#x27;t even differentiate us all that much from those who use NO chat software at work.