Doostang Blog

It’s about that time. Summer is drawing to a close, and over the next month, many of you will be finishing up your internships, taking a few last trips to the beach, and yes, heading back to school. With this in mind, we thought it was the perfect time to introduce open sign-ups for students and alumni from the following schools and MBA programs:

Undergraduate Programs

Amherst College
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Washington University in St. Louis
Williams College
Yale University

MBA Programs

Chicago Graduate School of Business
Columbia Graduate School of Business
Darden School of Business, UVA
Fuqua School of Business, Duke
Haas School of Business, Berkeley
Harvard Business School
Johnson School, Cornell
Kellogg School, Northwestern
Ross School of Business, Michigan
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stern School of Business, NYU
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Yale School of Management

Students and alumni from these schools can now use a verified .edu or alumni email address to join Doostang. Upon registering for the site, anyone who uses this open network sign-up page will automatically be placed in his or her school network, allowing for easy communication and engagement with other students and alumni.

Of course, you’re still welcome to invite your friends, and if your school is not listed on the open networks page, that doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to join the site. We just think it makes sense to give students and alumni from our most heavily represented schools a direct way to join the site and connect with classmates, colleagues and friends.

Welcome to all of you who’ll be using these open sign-up pages to join Doostang, and we hope you enjoy the site!

Best,

Nat

Hi Everyone,

Well, as many of you have probably already noticed, the site looks a bit different than it did 24 hours ago. Hopefully, you like what you see, but in any case, I’d like to take this opportunity to fill you in on what’s going on.

First of all, after listening to you for many, many months, we’ve decided to eliminate all restrictions on applying to jobs. We’re not eliminating SPGs – if you’re in one you’ll remain a member, and these groups will continue to exist as professional groups on the site, in which you can still network with other individuals who share similar career interests. However, you no longer have to invite 10 friends or be associated with these groups to apply to certain jobs on the site.

We’re also proud to introduce the Doostang Elite Network, made up of active members who make valuable contributions to the site. If you’re sharing community posts, contributing to the forums or inviting great people, then chances are you’re well on your way to becoming a part of this network. We’ve created the Elite Network as a way to say thanks to members who consistently contribute to Doostang, but just because you’re not in it on day one doesn’t mean you can’t get involved. Stay active on the site, participate, and we’ll notice. I won’t get into all the details of this new program right now, but feel free to read more about it here.

One of the ways to gain access to the Elite Network (mentioned above) is by creating Community Posts. If this sounds new to you, you’re probably not alone, but in fact the concept dates back to the first days of Doostang. Community Posts are what were previously called Shared Jobs – jobs posted by members of the community who aren’t necessarily looking to fill the role, but rather are passing on an opportunity that they think is particularly interesting or applicable to the Doostang community. There’s been a lot of confusion surrounding Community Posts in the past, so we figured we’d highlight these positions, both to make it clear that these opportunities are not posted by hiring managers, and to recognize them as unique and valuable contributions to the community.

Next up, we made a little addition to your profile page. Once you’ve completed 75% of your profile, you have the option to upload a photo of yourself. This certainly isn’t required and doesn’t count towards your completion percentage, but we’ve been hearing lots of interest in this feature, so we thought it was the right time to add this option.

Lastly, I’d like to mention a new feature we’ve added to the forums section of the site. At the top of each forum post, you’ll now see an option to let the poster know whether you thought his or her comment was especially useful or interesting. So, say Chris gives Dana some awesome advice, Dana (and anyone else) can now go back and let Chris know (with one simple click) that his answer was informative.

Lots of new stuff, I know, and I’m sure you all have thoughts. As always, please share your feedback - we want to know what you think about all of these recent changes.

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the new features!

Nat

Hi Everybody,

We hope you logged in to Doostang today and were pleasantly surprised by the new navigation interface that we’ve built. We’ve been putting a lot of effort into improving your experience on the site so that you can discover career opportunities and connect with people more quickly and intuitively. So what has changed?

At the top, we’ve uncluttered the main navigation bar and have broken it down into four sections: Community, Jobs, People, and Profile. That’s it. With the new drop-down interface, you can now get to everything on Doostang in just one click. This means no more wasted time trying to find something on the site.

You’ll also notice that your messaging interface now stays with you on the left side wherever you go on Doostang. We wanted to provide you with easy access to your Inbox and job activity so that you could manage all communications with potential employers and fellow Doostang members more quickly than ever before.

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

Thanks!

Nat

Hi Everybody,

I hope you’re enjoying yourselves in the first official week of summer. Despite the heat, we’re going strong over here, and I wanted to tell you all about a few new features we’ve just released.

First, you will now see a more detailed version of your recent activity when you login to the site. In addition to what was there before, we’ve added recent forum posts and recently posted jobs that may be relevant to you. If you’ve filled out your career interests in your profile, a few jobs matching those interests will automatically appear in your feed whenever you login to the site. Continuing on the theme of career interests, when you browse jobs, you’ll now see a filter on the right-hand side of your screen. If you’re wondering why some of the boxes are checked and others aren’t, you’ve probably filled out your interests in your profile. With this feature, we’re only showing you the jobs that you’ve told us are relevant to you. That’s not to say everyone can’t check and uncheck whatever boxes they please (and see as many or as few jobs as they’d like), but we hope this filter gives you a more personalized job searching experience.

That’s it for now, but please, as you’re playing around on the site, continue to send us your feedback both on what we’ve released and what you would like to see in the future. We’ve got plenty of great features in the works, but, as always, we want to hear what you like, what you don’t, and what you want to see going forward.

Best,

Nat

As you may have noticed, there have been a lot of changes to Doostang recently. Since the end of April, we’ve put up a new site, a new look, and a bunch of new features to make your career search easier. But one of the biggest changes you haven’t seen has been our recent move to a new office.

Why did we move, you ask? Well, you know it’s time to go to a bigger place when your company’s CEO is operating out of the kitchen table most of the day. So it was two weeks ago that we said goodbye to the old place on Sheridan Ave and moved down just a few blocks to our new space. And I put the emphasis on space. We’ve got lots of it now. Check out some pictures:

I told you we have a lot of space!

All the engineers went to lunch, but Barron kept chugging along.

Look how happy I am at my job!
I shall miss some of the coziness of the old office, but I’m glad we’ve made the big move. As our company continues to grow, I know we’ll always look fondly on the memories of yore with the certainty of a better future for Doostang and our treasured members.

Doo it up in the new crib,
~gus.

Over the past few months, we’ve been collecting a lot of feedback from you, our loyal Doostang members, and working hard to turn that feedback into new features on the site. Today, we’re happy to announce two big feature updates — advanced people search and open messaging — that we hope will improve your ability to network with other Doostang members and put you in touch with new career opportunities.

First, we’re introducing our new and improved advanced people search. With the ability to search for Doostang members by industry, geography, company, position, and education, you can easily find friends, colleagues, and new contacts who can help advance your career. Looking for alumni from your school at the company you’re interested in? Easy. You’ll find everything you need for happy searching in the “Find People” tab on the main navigation menu.

Secondly, we’re opening up messaging on the site so that you can start a conversation with anyone on Doostang. One of the things that we really want to encourage in our community is the free-flow of knowledge, ideas, and opportunities amongst our members. With open messaging, we’re getting closer to that vision. Of course, we take your privacy concerns very seriously, so we’ve made it easy for you to report undesired messages as spam and control exactly who can message you in your Account Settings.

We’re really excited about these big changes and we hope you’ll find them useful in connecting with other great people. As always, keep the feedback coming.

Best,

Nat

Dear Doostang Community,

Greetings! There are big changes going on here at Doostang, and I wanted to take a moment to both introduce myself and tell you a bit more about where Doostang is headed.

In March, I joined Doostang as its new CEO. I was intrigued by the opportunity for a number of reasons: the rapid growth of this exceptional community, the great companies using Doostang to fill their openings, the quality of the team over here—there was plenty to like. But most of all, I liked the idea. Doostang is predicated on the dual notions that personal networks are critical to effective career growth and that technology should play a central role in actively matching great people to great opportunities. Frankly, making it truly easier for people to find their next great job isn’t hard to get excited about when you head into work in the morning.

The redesigned site you see today is a key step in our continuing evolution. As many of you already know, Doostang was founded by two friends, a Stanford MBA and an MIT engineer, who recognized the extent to which their personal networks were crucial in finding the best career opportunities, but were surprised by how poorly the existing online job space supported this. In response, they created an invite only community site to facilitate the discovery of high quality career opportunities among their peers. The community grew organically from among the country’s most talented and ambitious alumni and young professionals and, in turn, attracted the attention of leading employers. But as the community continued to expand, it became increasingly apparent that the initial site platform was not going to be able to support its growth. We heard your feedback, but were far too slow in responding to it. The list of features that we wanted to add seemed to always grow longer, not shorter. To make a long story short, we decided to bite the bullet and rebuild the codebase from scratch. It’s been a painful process, but as of today we’ve suddenly got a lot of very happy engineers wandering around the office, and are in a position to serve all of you much more effectively moving forward.

This new platform will allow us to iterate far more quickly. We’ll add features you have already requested, features that will (hopefully!) come as a pleasant surprise, and of course features that have yet to be imagined. You’ll see the site change on a frequent basis as we roll these out. On a personal level, I want to let you know that I am committed to using this increased flexibility & capacity for change to do a better job of responding to your needs. We have made a few decisions in the past that I’d like to undo—decisions that I feel didn’t reflect our core value of prioritizing “value to the user” above all. You’ll see this reflected in some of the changes we’ll be implementing over these next few weeks immediately following our initial launch. For instance, we’re working on a number of feature improvements to re-enable some of the casual networking behavior that our members valued so highly, but that got messed up by the way we launched our subscription product. And that’s not the only one—trust me, we’ve got a long list, so stay tuned.

We also need your help. We’re dedicated to listening, to demonstrating to all of you that we are as community-centric in our approach as possible. But there is one thing I’m sure of: even though our QA team has been working overtime for weeks, there have got to be a few bugs hidden in this entirely new website. Nat Chambers, one of the folks at Doostang that works on managing communication with the community, has set up another thread called “Tell us what you think… We’re listening.” Use this thread to tell us when you find things that aren’t working. Tell us when you find things you don’t like. And tell us when we’ve changed something that makes you happy. We’ll continue to work hard to fulfill our mission: to make it easy for talented people and great career opportunities to find one another. With your continued support, we’ll do even better.

Thanks,

Drew

Hello, loyal Doostang blog readers. You might be wondering about the unfamiliar face over to the left. That’s me– Gus. You may know me better as Cornelius Hackl from Austin High School’s 2001 musical production of “Hello, Dolly!” I still get stopped on the streets for that one. I’m your new product marketing manager, so you can blame me when animated gifs start popping up all over the homepage. I’m on a mission to bring them back to the forefront of web design.

So I want to talk to you about some of the changes going on at Doostang, including our spanking new subscription plan for recruiters. Now if you use the site to find or post jobs, this will not affect you. Doostang will continue to be a free and valuable resource for our community of job seekers to land their dream jobs. But if you’re a recruiter looking for top-notch passive candidates, our subscription plan offers advanced search functionality (including profile and resume search) for you to find that perfect hire. We’re really proud of our community of over 380,000 members from top U.S. Universities and MBA programs, and we think you’re going to be impressed as well. Learn more here or contact us at sales@doostang.com if interested.

I look forward to our future together.

Just doo it.

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We spend a lot of time over at Doostang making sure bright people have bright futures. While careers are a serious topic we take quite seriously, we also most certainly like to have a good time.

It’s precisely this knee-slappin sensibility that we decided to bring to facebook. Over the weekend we released MASH by Doostang, a facebook application inspired by a prominent acronym in many of our childhoods… that is to say Mansion – Apartment – Shack – House. Check it out and predict your friends futures – we’ve jam-packed the game with all kinds of celebrities, locations, even the occasional job posted to Doostang, all of which combine to make for some pretty entertaining stories.

More good news: if you’ve been looking around for an invite Doostang without much luck, facebookers belonging to one of 50 or so school networks are now able to sign up for Doostang directly through the application.

And if that’s not enough upside, I’ll point out that any day you can bestow the below fate upon your little brother is a pretty good day.

Doo break for some MASH,

Chelsea

So Matt and I moved into New York in early October and set up the Doostang NY Office – the highlights include packing/unpacking an enormous UHaul, building Ikea desks, shopping for office supplies at J & R Computer World, and actually setting up the office while working on the ‘stang . The good news – we’re up and running full speed here on the east coast.

This past Thursday, I woke up bright and early to meet Mareza at JFK airport and kick off the NYC Doo Tour. We’re meeting with a lot of finance, consulting, and media firms here in the city to learn more about their recruitment processes and challenges. Our goal is to help them recruit top candidates and get our community more streamlined access to better jobs – sounds good? Yea, I thought so…

We’ve learned a whole lot the last few days and aren’t done yet – we’re packed with meetings tomorrow and Thursday. Mareza is headed back to Palo Alto on Friday but I’ll be making it happen here in the Big Apple full time now, exciting stuff for sure.

Also, if you haven’t checked us out in US News and World Report, we were included in their article “How to Network on the Web.”

Dooin’ it on the Street,

Jeff