JobQ is a Q & A service on career change and career. When you post a question, someone answers over the internet. Looking into JobQ, everything from abstract career questions to specific company name questions has been posted. Each question gradually becomes an asset, and now it is becoming increasingly displayed in searches.

I talked to Mr. Ozui, Representative Director of Libo who manages JobQ, about jobQ and the needs the user has.

Representative Director of Libo Co., Ltd. Takumi Odani (Odani Takumi)

Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1990.
After graduating from Osaka Prefecture University Faculty of Engineering, joined the human resources startup. We will provide corporate sales and recruitment support to more than 70 companies in total.
After that, as a Web engineer, engaged in the development of Web services and creation of recruitment planning site.
After leaving the company, he worked as a freelance web engineer focusing on contract development.
In February 2015, founded Libo Co., Ltd.
He also develops products as an engineer himself.

Answer individual questions by "Internet specific question" on the Internet

「Specific concrete question". It was a word that got me impressed with the interview.

With the development of PCs and smartphones, we have been able to contact all kinds of information in a timely manner. News flows immediately on Twitter, there is also a News curation application. If you follow the opinion leader, knowledge in that industry will accumulate, and what you do not know will be investigated "as soon as possible". What you want is mostly Amazon or Rakuten, you can buy it. Some of the millennial generation and Z generation seem to decide where to eat from Instagram tags rather than Google search.

Well then did we get any information I wanted? The answer is "No". "I do not know how to search" "I do not know how to search" "I do not know anything" can not be guogged, and Amazon can not reach goods even in Amazon.

That's where "individual specific questions" appear. Do not categorized questions or common questions to all, but ask abstract questions or high-level questions. If it is off line, answers gather by using the Internet.

This trend may be strong in fashion, food and music, especially in the lifestyle field."FACY" which was made into a previous articleI have realized "individual specific question" in chat, and Spotify makes me encounter a new artist in the form of recommendation. Players who are challenging this task in fields such as food and real estate are also appearing in Japan.

Well the service we will introduce today is "JobQ (job queue)". The field of career is also a field that can not necessarily correspond with search. JobQ responds to "individual specific questions" in the form of Q & A.

Question precedent type, Q & A service specialized in career

JobQ is a Q & A service specialized in career and career changeIt is. If you post a question related to employment, career change, career anonymously, you can receive a reply. Starting in 2016, there are 300,000 monthly users (as of December 2017). Since content gets accumulated more and more, the number of users has also increased through searching.

If someone has a job change experience, some may think that there is a similar service like a job change message board.

In the case of other services, there is a theme, I think that there are many "answer type" services that answer to it. On the other handJobQ is "Question precedent type"That is a big difference.

If it is the former, answers are easy to gather, but too concrete questions and answers become difficult. However, if you are a question-leading type JobQ, you can freely ask questions. We call this "Personalized question」「Specific concrete questionI call it. (Mr. Odani)

There are many young businessmen for JobQ questioners. This may be simply that young people are more accustomed to the net, but as the age gets higher, the number of people will grow and more people will change jobs using offline networks.

Looking at the site of JobQ, the category first comes into view. In addition to "career" "job change" "employment" there are also "business" "skill" "chat". "From the abstract question of" Women's Bunka girls college students, where is the company that has good welfare benefits? "" How should you approach your older men? "Xx About the annual income of the company "is also listed as a question. If you ask, parent company and subsidiary companies may have different corporate styles (especially companies that got in the group and seized in the group seems to have a strong tendency), so many questions in this hand.

Also, in job change such as "change from sales to marketing" "engineer from back office", job changeers are not familiar with the new job category. So it seems that there are many questions of this kind.

An incentive for answers is "desire to approve"

On the contrary, what kind of user is answering? When asked, "Former employees responded in many cases" (Mr. Kotani) and that.

There are mainly two incentives to answer. One thing that I felt that I got a career that I was able to grow, I took care of in my previous job. These people areI want to disseminate a good experience to othersThinking positively and answering the question.

The other isApproval desireis not it. Human beings are glad if everyone hears what they know. For example, I am a president and an engineer, so I'm happy to hear such things as "tips on developing business while engaging in an engineering."

In JobQ, when you register as a member, enter what company you worked in so far. Based on that, tags are assigned to questioners and respondents. For example, when a question about Company A comes out, it seems that it is a mechanism that notifies the person (who was) belonging to Company A and notifies the answer.

The response rate of questions is about 80-90%. There are cases where answers can not be answered to the question that is too specific indeed, but most questions are answered. Some users answer until they find the question that they can answer.

There are also a lot of people registering at the company's Human Resources department. There seems to be a lot of people who use it to check the way the company is reflected and feed it back to recruiting activities.

Flow Contents stacked up in stock

The current JobQ model was not what I was thinking from the beginning, but it was a thing reached while repeating small pivots.

At the beginning of JobQ, I put my emphasis on thinking that it is compatible with SNS and viral. However, when I opened the lid, it was a good compatibility with the search.

I do not mean I will continue to use my career change service. So even if you get notified when you are not thinking about changing jobs you will not be accessed. So I switched to a design that considers search inflows as it would be better to have the necessary one be able to access it when needed.

At the beginning we talked about "individual specific questions". Of course this can answer personalized questions. And the more content you collect, the more content you search for. JobQ steadily increases the question and answer to the steady, and now it is becoming more frequent to display in search results such as "company name> corporate culture" and "industry type inexperience", for example.

JobQ is a service for you

When asked Mr. Odani how he tried to develop JobQ, he said, "JobQ is a service for myself" in the first place.

Mr. Kotani was in charge of corporate sales originally in his previous job. However, I lost my physical condition and took a rest for a while. In the meantime, I learned programming, and that was also to reinstate as an engineer.

Suddenly I worked as an engineer, I did not know either the right or the left, so I consulted with various people. Of course the opinion of the engineer is helpful. I was happy because some people happened to have a chance to consult nearby, but there were cases where there was no consultation partner, and I felt it might have been more comfortable if I could listen on the net.

Mr. Kotani who reinstated was active as an engineer. However, in addition to being aiming for entrepreneurship in the beginning, in addition to having engineering skills, he retired from the company and founded Libo. I launched JobQ.

From search to one-step service

JobQ has established itself as a career Q & A service. Even now it seems that partly with the job change agent, as the next developmentBecome self-career agentIt seems that it is in view.

Recently I heard from the startup of HR Tech is the limit of major and existing change job agent. Of course, it is big, so there are many job openings, many choices. Agent sympathy or getting pushed back may be a catalyst for career change.

However, it is also a fact that there is a problem that the agent is too young or if it is an agent in the background of the textbook, it can not support the creative job. Also, when trying to manage KPIs, the number of interviews and the number of adopted decisions will necessarily become indicators. In other words, the agent moves with the company's logic, and it is not centered on the change of job.

JobQ will challenge this problem. For example, we collect information on what kind of questions each user is seeing. If you are checking a specific company or industry, make a lead such as directing an interview to the company. That isFrom the consultation, expand the business area to the next step to actually change jobsIt is.

In recent years "working way reform" is a key word, the way of labor is questioned. Human beings are working half of their lives, so it is important to build a career where you can be active.

Career change is a temporary action, it is natural, but the period of work is longer, is not it? Libo's vision is "to create a society where individuals are active." In order to make this happen, I would like to support periods of work as well as work.

JobQ is starting with job hiring / career change and career Q & A, and is trying to expand its scope. Try asking a question first and looking for a question that can be answered.

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