I too like the aesthetic.
There are similarities to the recently launchedKnozen, a mobile app to rate and compare your coworkers anonymously. In doing so, it builds a personality/culture-fit graph (as I understand it). cc @cenedella
@rrhoover Thanks Ryan! We've been hearing that a lot lately, and it's exciting to see other startups focusing on the space. Knozen is a solid product, and along with Good.Co represents a new breed of technologies building a graph with a completely new dimension of data furthering self-understand, actualization and relationships.
As far as how we differ from Knozen, think of Good.Co as OKCupid meets LinkedIn meets Glassdoor.
Here are the top differentiators between Good.Co and Knozen:
- Good.Co has been around for over a year now and with our beta web app we have collected over 4 million data points (about people's personalities, their friends, managers, and company culture) that have fed into our significantly more sophisticated and social new mobile app
- We are quantifying and recommending how to improve relationships not just between people but between coworkers, manager, teams, companies and jobs. Good.Co's FitScore is a fun mechanism that allows users the ability to do that
- We have over 4k companies that insider's have rated and people can go check their culture FitScores with. E.g. you can check your FitScore with Facebook, Google, etc.
- We are focused explicitly on Millennials because we discovered that the workplace churn and happiness problem was the greatest in this segment both for employees and employers
- If you want to check your personality FitScore with a user and get advice on how to build a better relationship, that user does not need to be on Good.Co! You can answer 8 questions about anyone in your social network anonymously and get insights about your relationships.
@LennsHu Thanks Lenny! Many people are curious on how Good.Co's science differs from MBTI, StrengthsFinder, and assessments that use the Big Five factor model.
Our Chief Psychometrics Officer Dr. Kerry Schofield has done a great job of drawing on cutting edge developments in psychometrics, psychology and behavioral neuroscience, bringing Good.Co in line with the most recent scientific thinking in personality modeling. I'm happy to provide more information, or you can check out detailed info about the science behind Good.Co on our site: http://www.good.co/corporate/the...
Hey @samarbirwadker. I had a lot of fun comparing our personas with buddies! And yeah, I'm a bit curious how the algorithm works... I retook the test expecting one of the my personas to change, and surprisingly I got 3 totally new ones.
@LennsHu Hi Lenny! Did you originally take the assessment via web, then take it again via the iPhone app? If so, there's a good explanation for that!
The underlying science of identifying and verbalizing individual strengths has nearly tripled in the dimensions we are measuring - from 15 traits to nearly 45 different elements. In addition to the 6 original factors based on the Big 5 personality framework, we have added two others, representing key workplace attitudes.
In addition, while v1 on the web focused on identifying specific personality characteristics that were representative of workplace behavior and approach - delivered through the archetypes - the enhanced framework assembles a more holistic blend, specifically based on how the measured traits interact with each other - a better sum of the parts, so to speak.
In short: because we're now measuring more aspects of your personality on the app, your results are likely to change and become more accurate.
Hi everyone! I'm Samar, CEO and co-founder of Good.Co. It's great to read your feedback! I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have on our product, particularly surrounding the science behind Good.Co.
Thanks!
@samarbirwadker I signed up for this many months ago and took the quiz. I think your product got a good grasp on my personality style, so I don't doubt the accuracy. You also have some great and engaging content on the blog
My biggest complaint is that while you (used to at least) recommend some corporate targets to find a good professional fit for your personality, there's not a lot else I could get from it. In other words, the data was interesting, but I didn't have an actionable place to go with it. I would be really interested if you could get beyond my friends and show me connections on LinkedIn that may be a good fit as a team. Or some way of connecting people that would fit together anonymously until they swipe okay, like Tinder for personality profiles in a professional context. This may already exist, but just my suggestions.
@startupjoshua Hi Joshua, Thanks so much for your feedback and for trying Good.Co out in its early stages! As you may have noticed via the Fast Company article posted above, we've made some pretty major changes to our product. We've added several new assessments to give a more comprehensive view of your personality. Additionally, users can now gain insight into how others perceive them via a peer rating system that allows you to share the self-discovery journey with friends, and you can find your fit with people who aren't Good.Co users. We've also added thousands more companies to our database. More features are in the pipeline, and as always, we're harnessing every bit of feedback we receive in order to help us evolve!
If you haven't had the chance to check out our new app yet (which just launched two weeks ago), you can find it on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...
We'd love to hear any further feedback you might have based on the new product. Thanks again for your feedback and support!
The design caught my eye, the quirky approach to self-discovery and how it relates to my career is what's convinced me to give it a try. Neat concept, beautiful execution.
All, we have recently launched an update to the app. We have deeply reworked our psychometrics, made our content even more digestible, and rebuilt the app natively for both platforms. Would greatly appreciate any feedback / thoughts.
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