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24 alternatives to Get hired faster by reaching decision-makers early

I built Insider Openings because I know how frustrating job searching can be. You spend hours tweaking resumes, writing cover letters, applying through job boards… and then? Crickets. I’ve been there, wondering if anyone even saw my application. But after years of working with startups, I noticed something most job seekers don’t see is that when a company raises funding, they’re about to grow. They start hiring fast, often before a job ever hits a careers page. That’s when the window of opportunity is wide open… but no one’s talking about it. So I thought, what if I could give job seekers a…

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    Get hired faster by reaching decision-makers early.

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    Insider guides to getting a job at 200+ top tech companies

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  8. 8WU

    hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)

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    Recruit Smarter, Faster, More Profitably.

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  17. 17FT

    I recently completed an arduous three-month interview process. Finding startups that align with your values and have high potential upside is hard. I built StartupIntel to make it easier. StartupIntel surfaces top startups based on lists published by reputable sources and enables further research with links to Glassdoor, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn. Find a bug or have a feature request? Please add a GitHub issue, https://github.com/therockstorm/startup-intel.

    2023 · startupintel.dev · its alternatives →

  18. 18TF

    Searching for job roles in tech? I've been there. For six months, I was stuck in the LinkedIn job application loop, getting nowhere. It was soul-crushing. I started to wonder if I was just a bad developer. But I changed my modus operandi and started reaching out to founders building super cool startups that got recently funded but didnt have the chance to post online yet that they are hiring, the response rate was much more significant and I wwas having super cool convos! This approach was so effective, I turned it into a product. I've tapped into premium data sources (we're talking $25K+…

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    Hi HN, We’re definitely not the first to realise there’s something seriously wrong with how hiring and job-seeking works today. Zero-cost communication and LLMs have created so much noise that good candidates can’t get heard, and it becomes all too tempting to game the system with keywords and prompt-hacking. In fact we discovered that 70% of early stage AI startups don't post their jobs on LinkedIn. Instead, many founders hire exclusively within their network, which works at the start but doesn’t scale. We thought a lot about this problem, and pivoted through a few ideas including an AI…

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  23. 23PJ

    ^ That's what our team said to me initially but we think it's pretty chill now. We built a job search tool that uses investor software to help you discover the most exciting companies to work for right now. Free this week so that you guys can try it out before we hard launch next week (paywall is down). Feedback is our oxygen: What can we do better? Are you gonna give us money? Why do you hate the design?

    2022 · usemassive.com · its alternatives →

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    Apply today, interview today. The fastest way to get hired.

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