Wow, 9 placements in 3 months is incredible!! I’d be curious to see that in terms of FTE equivalents (is it mostly part time staff?).
What are you counting as a “placement” here—someone first noticing a persons’ name on Pineapple, or did you also ask about counterfactuality (would the employee have applied otherwise, or would the employer have reached out from another source?).
I’d also kind of be interested (if you have capacity to share) if the folks placed are “new” to EA (operationalized maybe as ‘no former full time job at an EA affiliated org’), or were already in the labor pool.
Thanks for your feedback! Your follow-up made us take a closer look at our calculation, which we have now updated in our post. Turns out, most placements were part-time, so the cost per placement is about double our initial estimate.
It is difficult to define placement, as we didn’t capture that information (our feedback form now aims to capture that). However, based on feedback, some candidates were part of a closed hiring round, indicating that Pineapple was the primary access point to the candidates. This is further corroborated by some employer anecdotes, who said that searching the Pineapple list was how they identified and narrowed down candidates. That said, this could be limited to just the couple of candidate placements, so I am not very certain on this by any means. We will aim to share as we get more info.
Good question about EA experience. We ask each candidate about their EA involvement (in hours spent total on EA). Those who got placements had the following EA involvement: 5-20 hours (1 person), 20-100 hours (3 people), and 100+ hours (5 people).
Wow, 9 placements in 3 months is incredible!! I’d be curious to see that in terms of FTE equivalents (is it mostly part time staff?).
What are you counting as a “placement” here—someone first noticing a persons’ name on Pineapple, or did you also ask about counterfactuality (would the employee have applied otherwise, or would the employer have reached out from another source?).
I’d also kind of be interested (if you have capacity to share) if the folks placed are “new” to EA (operationalized maybe as ‘no former full time job at an EA affiliated org’), or were already in the labor pool.
Thanks for your feedback! Your follow-up made us take a closer look at our calculation, which we have now updated in our post. Turns out, most placements were part-time, so the cost per placement is about double our initial estimate.
It is difficult to define placement, as we didn’t capture that information (our feedback form now aims to capture that). However, based on feedback, some candidates were part of a closed hiring round, indicating that Pineapple was the primary access point to the candidates. This is further corroborated by some employer anecdotes, who said that searching the Pineapple list was how they identified and narrowed down candidates. That said, this could be limited to just the couple of candidate placements, so I am not very certain on this by any means. We will aim to share as we get more info.
Good question about EA experience. We ask each candidate about their EA involvement (in hours spent total on EA). Those who got placements had the following EA involvement: 5-20 hours (1 person), 20-100 hours (3 people), and 100+ hours (5 people).