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Difficulty filtering fluff in job postings

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A job seeker at the beginning of their career reports difficulty determining how much time to spend reading job postings because they are often filled with irrelevant 'fluff' or 'soft benefits' that make the applicant feel discouraged or out of place.

Who's affected: A job seeker at the beginning of their career

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A browser extension that automatically highlights core job requirements and hides 'fluff' or company culture filler text in job postings.
  2. A job search platform that standardizes job postings into a clean, uniform format to remove non-essential company marketing language.
  3. A community-driven database where users tag job postings that contain excessive irrelevant information to help others filter their search.
I want to build this

Real voices

“I see lots of job postings which are very vague or contain a lot of information that isn't really related to the job application”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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