Managers: Learn from the career pages of fast growing companies to attract the people you want to hire

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Our goal #1 Find the best design practises that managers and companies can use on their job/career pages to attract the people they want to hire and work with?

How are we doing it? We are looking at some of the well funded, fast growing startups and analyzing the best designed career pages.

These best practices can be used by managers of technology teams, hiring managers and people operations teams to attract the people they’d love to make team members.

This is teardown #5 of stackexchange.com

follow the trail of and spot what we loved!

This is StackExchange. Let’s head over to their careers page

The pattern of clubbing the careers page with all the other pages of the company is a good pattern that we identified with LeadGenius in the last teardown. Also thankyou StackExchange for calling the option by a different name. Attention to detail, you’re doing it right!

Wonderful display of how much do they really understand the users. If someone wants to search for a job, let them go ahead and do it first thing on the page!

Stackexchange makes searching for available jobs as simple as searching for answers!If you have special categories of jobs, like remote jobs, mention it additionally.

Telling the candidates what are your beliefs as a company. This is the place not to get wishy washy about what you care for. Go all out, be opinionated, be vocal about your preferences and way of working. Remember, like begets like.

Glimpses of the office, the official stuffed unicorn presiding over the cafeteria table and some of the team members is the first warm introduction. All the other companies, do this do this.

StackExchange is one of the websites which are quite popular. One would question the rationale behind them explaining what they do on the careers page. But in the process of explaining what they do, they have also disclosed their ambition. Where do they want to be.

Great example of employee testimonials on StackExchange page. We noticed employee testimonials on our 4th teardown of LeadGenius page. Whether you have a small team or a huge team, employee testimonials are always a great idea.

They have great benefits. But more important is the fact that they have been communicated very clearly. Over communication never goes waste when it comes to attracting the most critical resource for your company.

Ability to work remotely is a big plus. Stackexchange knows it, so a different section is devoted to it :)

Lessons from StackExchange.com career page

1. Positive attracts positive. If customer testimonials attract newer customers, then employee testimonials attract positive people applying to your company. Don’t keep the positive stories under the rug. They belong right on your career pages to attract better people.

2. Hiring is not just a separate page. Hiring the right people is not about a different page of your company website. It is an integral part of saying out who you are and who do you want to work with. Leverage this by telling as much about your policies, your team and your expectations.

Hope you enjoyed the teardown!

You know why are we doing this?Because we want that every human should be matched with the work that their potential deservesand every company should have people they deserve.

Long story short, we help grow engaged teams so the managers can get engaged in growing the business.

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