Companies offer referral bonuses for new hires, but they limit them to just their own employees. Why? Enter Draftboard, where companies make those bonuses public and claimable by anyone in the world. Refer your network to jobs and get paid - it's that simple.

I started using it and got the gist in a few minutes. It's incredible that I can leverage my network in a new way and actually help both my friends and cool companies out there.

I have used Draftboard both as a scout and as a company looking to hire. As a scout, it has been a great way for me to help people in my network get connected with opportunities that are a great fit for them and as a hiring company it has helped me expand my candidate pool.

I'm using to monetize job referrals

I started using it and got the gist in a few minutes. It's incredible that I can leverage my network in a new way and actually help both my friends and cool companies out there.

I'm using to monetize job referrals

“What if I could productize my wife?” Hey PH community! 👋 I started Draftboard because my wife - who is not a recruiter - has gotten dozens of people jobs, and the most she ever received in thanks was a $30 bottle of wine (once). That’s insane. Especially when companies already have an amazing tool - a referral bonus - to incentivize referrals. Except it’s only available to employees. Draftboard changes that. Now companies can make those bonuses public and claimable by anyone. Our scouts (referrers) compete to refer the most talented people they know - and earn thousands of dollars when they succeed. Anyone can be a scout - you, your siblings, your partner, your colleagues - anyone. But every scout earns a rating (“Reputation Score”) based on the quality of their referrals (we have a unique way of tracking candidates’ progress through companies’ recruiting processes). Earn a high score? Refer away to your heart’s content. But end up with a low score? You’re out. Some quick highlights: 🥳Scouts are everyday people - Substackers, recruiters, super-connectors and everyday employees at tech startups like Amazon, Spotify, Deel and TikTok. 🥳We only work with top-tier tech companies - 70 customers including late-stage (SeatGeek, Bilt, Formlabs, Via), mid-stage (OneSignal, Speechify, TheGuarantors) and early-stage startups (Mealco, Basis, Accrue). 🥳Refer in seconds (literally) - copy your unique referral link and share it any way you want - WhatsApp, text, email, Telegram, etc. You’ll get notified as soon as the candidate applies. 🥳Nurture your Reputation Score - you get to approve or reject all applications that come in via your link - make sure to approve only the good ones so your score stays high! 🥳Full transparency - see the bonus amount upfront; track your referral’s progress through the interview process; see the status of your payment; and more 🥳Your referrals actually get reviewed - companies on Draftboard are prioritizing Draftboard referrals and responding to 80% of them; friends don’t let friends apply via job boards (where they never hear anything back). 🥳100% free to use - doesn’t cost a penny for you to make referrals or for companies to list their roles/referral bonuses. 🥳Scan your network to surface great candidates - one-click to scan your LinkedIn connections and match them against jobs listed on Draftboard. Who am I? I’m Zach, and I founded Draftboard just over a year ago. Before that, I spent 9 years at consumer internet conglomerate IAC (e.g. Vimeo, Tinder, Turo, TripAdvisor, Expedia, etc.), ultimately becoming CEO of mobile app portfolio Mosaic Group where I grew the business from $40M to >$200M revenue (was just acquired). Mosaic built & operated apps like RoboKiller (#1 spam call blocking app), iTranslate (#2 translation app), and Clime (#2 weather app). I have a wonderful wife, two beautiful children and the sweetest dog 🙏

@zach_roseman Very cool. I have gotten a lot of friends jobs . It helps when some of my best friends run massive groups in Silicon Valley. Cant wait to see where Draftboard ends up .

@jaketital Thanks Jake! Superconnectors like you and people like your friends who run groups (whatsapp, slack, etc) are two big areas of focus for us on the scout side - happy to chat if you want to learn more! One of our scouts runs the 2nd largest iOS developer newsletter in the world with 18,000 subscriber - he got almost 20 of his members interviews and and made a placement. It took all of 60 seconds - he just add a link to the job to his weekly newsletter.

@zach_roseman down to have a chat Zach. I know today is launch day but I sent you a LinkedIn request. Let's set up a time to chat when the times right.

@zach_roseman Lol, hilarious hook. Seriously great idea!

Loving draftboard! Very cool that you're making referrals more accessible. Definitely trying to make more referrals through your platform.

@benln Thank you! Draftboard is the best place to refer your most talented to jobs :)

@benln Congrats! Draftboard revolutionizes hiring by making referral bonuses public and claimable by anyone, allowing people to refer their network to jobs and get paid easily.

@benln @jamin_nanthan thank you jamin!

@benln great launch Ben, keep on, congratulations on the launch

Headhunting meets crowdfunding, so something like crowdhunting. 😄 Very cool idea. Are there going to be more jobs from Europe?

@michacassola I love that phrase - crowdhunting!! fantastic. re europe: 100%. Blinkist had a role listed in Berlin, but we're focusing mostly in the US because we have to balance out both sides of the marketplace: need to have scouts (referrers) who can refer to talent to the roles listed. if you want to help us build out our european scout network, i'd love that!

@zach_roseman Uhh, so many projects and so little time... I checked crowdhunt.com and crowdhunting.com for you, but they are taken as expected. crowdhuntr.com is still free...

@michacassola hahai fantastic - i'll check em out on namecheap!

@zach_roseman I can recommend https://tld-list.com/ for price checking (Not all registrars should be used from tld-list thought). For .com I can recommend Sav and Spaceship (I think they are the cheaper version of namecheap)

@michacassola crowdhunting is great

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