About this idea
The Job Applicant Perspective (TJAP) is Yelp for job ads — a crowdsourced reputation system where job seekers can rate, review, and flag job postings based on their real experiences.
Why? Because right now, online hiring platforms profit when job seekers stay applying — NOT when they are hired. Job seekers are unprotected consumers in a hundred billion dollar market with no trust layer. That leads to ghost jobs, scam ads, and broken hiring pipelines. Friction, not trust.
The job market is essentially a magic claw machine for job seekers and a magic claw machine with a built in scapegoat provided by professional norms of silence for employers.
TJAP flips the script by giving job seekers a voice, offering searchable, anonymous reviews on job postings and employers. Think: which listings led to interviews, which ones ghosted applicants, and which ones were too good to be true. Employers get insight on how their postings land, and job seekers finally get information that helps them choose, not just apply. We aren't just tracking which employers we are tracking which job boards real job postings come from and which are full of nonsense for clicks.
We’ve launched, signed our first official customer (25 store locations), and have a major product upgrade and partnership launching this month. We're turning broken hiring into a two-sided market with real feedback and real outcomes.
Impact
For job seekers, it means safer, faster, more informed decisions — avoiding scams, ghost jobs, and wasted time. For employers, it means better applicant pipelines and real-time feedback on how their jobs are perceived.
Long-term, we shift hiring from a black box into a two-sided, accountable marketplace. That reduces unemployment friction, boosts local economies, and gives millions of job seekers the power to choose — not just hope.
We’re not just fixing job boards. We’re upgrading the hiring system.
What I'll do with $5,000
Marketing, fully would up my go to market options by having my new CMO utilize these funds towards helping his work. We need to get more early adopters - it'd probably be from Blind for Business but I might separate it to 1300 for Startories plus 3700 for Mlive.
Quick Bio
Sarah Springsteen Trumble is a neurospicy mom of 2 and a passionate advocate for the voices of many.
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