Job candidates are getting misplaced in a flood of functions as AI supercharges hiring, so hiring platform Greenhouse is making an attempt out a brand new instrument for job seekers that borrows from an unlikely supply: relationship apps.
Courting platforms like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge provide customers a restricted variety of “super likes,” “super swipes,” or “roses” they may give to potential love pursuits. These are mechanically bumped to the highest of the recipient’s feed, making it extra probably they’ll see the sender’s profile.
Greenhouse’s characteristic works in the same means—customers can designate one utility per 30 days to an organization as their “dream job,” which Greenhouse says makes their utility extra seen to the hiring firm’s recruiting group. The characteristic additionally permits candidates to fill out their profile in a extra full means than customers who don’t use the characteristic.
“It’s really an attempt by us to get job seekers themselves to be part of the solution by getting people to put more energy, more intention into their search,” Jon Stross, president and co-founder of Greenhouse, tells Fortune. “In exchange, employers are able to focus on the candidates who want their positions the most.”
Greater than 1,200 corporations on Greenhouse’s platform have signed up to make use of the characteristic thus far, together with Everlane, Flexport, and Guild. And round 7,000 candidates have taken benefit of it, the corporate says. Individuals who have used the “Dream Job” characteristic get a brand new position inside a median of 20.5 days, in comparison with the 35 to 50 day common of people that don’t, in accordance with the corporate. The characteristic is free to make use of.
Solely time will inform how Greenhouse’s “Dream Job” will pan out. However it’s a fantastic instance of how a really completely different recruiting panorama is forcing corporations to rethink how they do enterprise. And because the jobs market turns into an increasing number of unmanageable, we’re more likely to see different organizations search for new methods to sift via a deluge of resumes.
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