True story! Finally someone who gets to the point... That shows again how inefficient the normal fb marketing tools are. Although everybody spends tons of dollars into shitty promoted pages/posts and so on!
The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late reply, HN thought I was replying too fast so it stopped me.. ;)
For the matching part you are absolutely right, it's not necessary to create an account for that. However, our overall goal is to connect talented people with matching companies and people with similar career paths. It's much easier to take advantage of this networking effect with active accounts. Maybe we can manage to let you create your profile at a later point of the path, I'll bring this to discussion tomorrow!
Thanks for the feedback! The overall goal of the platform is to connect talents with interesting companies. Especially for huge companies it is often hard to find suitable candidates. If you wouldn't register they couldn't reach out to you at a later point.
You are right about facebook! That's exactly why we choose to implemenent the mannual signup option without facebook. But we do respect the privacy of our users very much! We never post on any walls or something. In our the privacy settings you can furthermore control the visibility of every single field on your profile.
We analyze friends interaction to calculate some kind of "best friends score". Basicly we try to figure out who your best friends are and take this into account to improve the matching.
Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?
The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: [email protected]
We are still working on that, we will defenetely impelement this in the near future. You will receive a newsletter when it's ready! If you can't wait shoot us a mail to [email protected] that you want your account to be removed.