VC Firm Jobs Page

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1. These are great resources Fred.I’ve sent them along to friends on both the VC side and job seekers.

2. 550 open job positions. That’s amazing!

   1. there are sectors of the economy that are producing jobs like crazybut there are many others that are shedding them just as quickly

      1. IT THE JOB OF STARTUP PEOPLE TO MAKE OTHER JOBS OBSOLETE.

3. Congratulations on using Indeed, I hadn’t seen your job page before and it’s way more usable than most VC’s job pages I know. Keep up the good work coming up with all those vacancies!

4. Seems like it should be easy to setup a page like that. Maybe it’s Brad’s reliance on WordPress.

5. I really like this eco system!

6. Phenomenal.

7. Looks like Zynga tops the list.The exhaustive list shows that USV’s investment thesis is working like a magic. Good luck and let the trend continue …

8. Great idea. 

9. Would be really interesting to know how well a job listing on a VC site works for finding talent as opposed to on the Startup site or job boards – do the startups see a higher calibre of application through the VC referral? Perhaps this is purely an academic debate but I’m curious…Great post as usual! 

   1. we have a lot of click data but not data on actual hires

      1. do you ask your portfolio co’s for standardised info (quarterly, every six months) ?  

         1. what do you mean by standardized info?

            1. kpi’s, number of employees, positions open etcOne of the VC backed co’s I used to work for got all of it’s portfolio co’s to submit a quarterly standardised report.

            2. that’s making portfolio companies do our workwe don’t do thatwe just deal with the info they present to us in the board meetings

10. As a current job seeker, resources like these are invaluable. Thanks to Brad and Fred.Is there a way I can hack this into an RSS feed to keep updated on new listings? I already use RSS from Indeed for specific job searches, but a feed with all the USV companies would be nice.

    1. Second this.

    2. interesting ideai will ask about that

    3. We feature a number of jobs per day via the @usvjobs:twitter twitter account.Here is an RSS from Indeed for the USV companies: http://rss.indeed.com/rss?q… 

       1. Thanks for the link Gary. I should’ve thought of just using logical operators in the Indeed search engine to pile it all into one feed. Works great.

11. What if you’ve never heard of a VC firm, or a company in them. How do you get around that barrier to find qualified people?

    1. We have taken a slightly different approach than Indeed or Simply Hired.  Instead of aggregating jobs from other job boards, where they both get most of the jobs, we only aggregate jobs off company websites.  So we welcome Fred’s help in getting the word out that the best place to find a job is on the company’s own website.  On http://www.LINKUP.com it’s all we have.

       1. i believe that a significant majority of jobs in Indeed’s index comes fromcompany websitescertainly all of the jobs on the USV jobs pages comes from company websites

          1. WHEN GRIMLOCK LOOK FOR JOB ON INDEED, 90% FROM RECRUITERS, NOT COMPANIES.LOTS OF THEM SAME JOB, TOO.

             1. that may be a function of how jobs are posted….in order to catch the widest net….

             2. several contingency recruiters may be given an opportunity to fill the same job…so multiple/duplicate postingsmaybe more so in tech or other “hot” markets where it becomes a bit of a feeding frenzy

             3. You can do an advanced search and exclude jobs from “staffing firms” — you can also elect only to search company websites. Still may be 90% from recruiters, but at least you don’t have to wade through them.

          2. Not really Fred.  I don’t want to argue but most of the jobs on the Indeed site come from spidering other job boards,even though some of the jobs do come only from company websites.  It is still a great service that Indeed provides, giving job seekers one spot to find these jobs.  Some job seekers however, like to go directly to the company’s own application process without having to wade through a bunch of scam jobs or duplicate jobs.We tell people to job search using both…Indeed and LINKUP.com.

             1. i know the numbers and i assure you that you are wrong

       2. I agree that the ideal place to find a job listing is the company’s website, but a lot of companies still do not post their jobs on their own site — especially some of the smaller companies which includes startups.  They just don’t have someone available in-house to maintain a “careers” page.BTW, the job boards you mention do aggregate from company websites.

12. You can debate the usefulness of companies like Zynga and Twitter but you cannot debate the economic impact of the thousands of high-paying jobs that USV-backed companies create.

13. Fred, Thanks for sharing this info in today’s post.  My firm recently rolled out a similar style job board based on Indeed to showcase all of the open positions within our portfolio companies.  We’ve found it to be the easiest way to get all of the jobs posted quickly.http://openviewpartners.com…Cheers, Amanda MaksymiwOpenView Partners

    1. Amanda — Your firm is commendable in some of the steps taken to support your portfolio companies — OpenView seems to be leading out in this regard.  Very impressive.  Very cool.  I’ve been watching (and taking notes).

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14. WHY INDEED NOT HAVE AUTOMATED WAY DO THIS? THAT NOT THINK LIKE STARTUP!

    1. i suspect they will do something like that but they have a big productroadmap they are already working on

       1. START 20% RULE LIKE GOOGLE, DO ON SIDE?

    2. Indeed should be creating something like this as a widget – I am sure there will be demand for it in many small businesses.

15. On a tangent, it’s interesting to see VC firms developing little applications related to their portfolios.  How much do investors think about automating their own processes?  Do you have any IT support for portfolio companies submitting reporting data, asking for advice, tapping your networks, sharing questions or processes with other portfolio firms, etc.?  It may be that this is old news, but I would think there is a lot of potential for investors to differentiate themselves based on simplifying investor-portfolio interactions that have traditionally been manual and ad hoc.

    1. we are trying to automate as much as we can to be more efficient in how weprovide support to our companiesgary leads this effort for us

16. Perhaps this is old news, but I think there is great potential for investors to differentiate themselves based on a simplification of the portfolio investor PMP Exam

17. Its a great way to look at what your investment does for the economy. your are currently creating 628 new opportunities from nothing. there must be some interesting data here – seeing these numbers broken down by sector, location etc. interesting to know how much investment it takes to “create another job”. for every 100K invested, 2.x positions are created etc etc

18. everytime i read something from you it gets me thinking and that is good

19. I’d like some help with this if possible to add to a VC’s personal site I put together. Was it built as a WordPress plugin?