Conditions can be screening round, post background checks on experience with previous employers. No other interview rounds.<p>If I build a product on this idea, I know every job seeker under the sun would jump in but what about the employers? Does a market exist, can I expect early adopters?
Something like this wouldn't even be legal in many areas, because employers are limited on the information they can share about employees beyond employment status. That is why referrals are person based and not company based.<p>Also you assume employees would love it. But what happens when you get blackballed in the system by a bad actor? How do you dispute what prior employers said about you?
Sounds to me like you're just describing corporate certificates. <i>Sometimes</i> if you show up to a related job (eg. Cisco Admin with a Cisco cert) you might get to waive the tech interview. You'll have a <i>really</i> hard time getting employers to accept your authority if they've never heard of you though; I doubt anyone would preapprove an employee that has a card from a company nobody knows.<p>Your best shot (imo) is to find a way to officially certify developers for a demanded tool. Otherwise I don't ever see this idea taking off.
Reputable agents and outsourcing firms offer exactly this service: already vetted candidates who can bypass interviews. That works because the agency or outsourcing firm can bear contractual responsibility for performance. Recruiters and online job boards don't have any skin in the game, and therefore don't deserve any trust.<p>I work through an agency, haven't done anything resembling a modern tech interview in 15 years.<p>Disclaimer: 10X Management represents me, but I post my own opinions, I don't speak for them.
I mean, this is what universities used to be, in some cases still are. Reasons universities are going to be better than you is that they have a tighter filter.<p>The "every job seeker" who "jumps in" is in practice bottom of the barrel- that's why they are seeking. How are you going to make them more attractive than any of the certificate/upskill/bootcamp/yadda yadda things that already exist.<p>Moving a little higher up the abstraction tree, either you are taking responsibility for the work/person or you are not. If you are, then you are a contracting agency. If you are not, you are a body shop. These are both just cattle businesses. Employers are not finding their <i>staff</i> through those commodity channels.<p>That said, the hiring market is so broken for all sides a good sounding pitch that ignores the reasons for the breakage can probably get traction. But absent a strategy- like top of market consultancy as a service- or bottom market consolidate federal work programs/grants/yadda yadda into a single place- it doesn't seem like the legs will run that long.