My Rant:
Finding a job is tough. Recruiting has become more automated in the recent years, which on the flip side is the entry level job seekers worst nightmare! Key words in resumes are EXTREMELY important, and not everyone can crack the code.
Anyway, doing some Techcrunch reading I ran across a cool startup that is attempting to solve this problem. Another company that is in the hiring space, Tilr, just expanded to several big markets, including Charlotte!
Let me know what you think in the comments. See the original article here
Teamable, a provider of hiring software that leverages employees’ social networks, has brought in $5 million from new investor Foundation Capital and existing backers True Ventures and SaaStr Fund.
The startup also announced its acquisition of Simppler‘s referral recommendation engine and matchmaking recruiting software. Teamable’s co-founder and chief executive officer Laura Bilazarian declined to disclose the terms of the deal but said none of the $5 million investment was used to finance the transaction.
According to Crunchbase, Simppler had raised $3.2 million in equity funding from Foundation Capital, Greylock, Vertex Ventures and others. The company, which is akin to Teamable, creates a referral platform using existing employee networks; it was founded by Vipul Sharma in 2013. Sharma previously ran machine learning at Eventbrite and, according to his LinkedIn profile, he’s been an engineering director at Indeed for the past year.
Sharma and the Simppler team will not be joining Teamable .
Using Gmail, Facebook, GitHub and other social media platforms, Teamable aggregates its employees’ contacts to connect recruiters with a more focused set of potential candidates. Companies using Teamable, including Spotify and Lyft, then facilitate a warm introduction between a candidate and the employee in their network. The startup says its social recruiting algorithms lead to more efficient and diverse hiring practices.