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What are the leading platforms which support job seekers-employers based on matching in general? Based on personality matching? Based on behavioral matching?
Hello there! Thank you for asking Wonder to research leading job-matching platforms that use general matching, personality matching, and/or behavior matching.
I searched the past year to provide the most current information, and I used TechCrunch, Forbes and Fast Company articles as a guide for companies on which to focus. A paper from the Brookings Institution features an insightful summary of the industry while also providing sample companies. I include this overview first, then I list companies referenced in the report and other articles in no particular order.
OVERVIEW
In a July 2016 report, the Brookings Institution discusses digital job-seeking platforms and their potential in the current connected environment. Among the positives of these platforms are:
**they make it easier for job seekers to learn about available jobs and their requirements
**for employers, they reduce the cost of recruiting
**they allow job seekers to market themselves to a wider audience.
They do this by aggregating large amounts of data, and they help seekers from "informal workers to highly skilled professionals," according to the report. Traditional ways to find a job, like searching newspapers and job boards, are time consuming and often do not yield results. Additional advantages to digital job platforms are:
**Democratized information - the playing field is leveled with open-access platforms, allowing job seekers without connections to be on the same field as those who do.
**Lower search costs - everything is faster, including communication, screening, assessment, and matching. Technology offers job seekers and employers substantially more information in much less time than an offline search.
**More signaling possibilities - "digital badges, credentialing, and endorsements are becoming more prevalent, accessible, and legitimate, and can facilitate better matching," according to the report, allowing seekers to showcase their skills, experiences, and references.
PLATFORMS
OutMatch uses assessment technology to deliver hiring data to employers. Its website states that it provides "clear, measurable insight into candidates and new hires" so employers are able to make better hiring decisions. It specializes "decentralized organizations with high-volume hiring needs," and its clients include American Airlines, CarMax, Circle K, and Hyatt.
In a March 2016 feature titled "New Job-Matching Tool Uses Personality Traits Rather Than Skills," Fast Company features Talify, a part of the Kiosite platform that uses intelligence and data to match college students with job opportunities. Kiosite already helps match job seekers with career opportunities, and Talify was launched specifically for students, where they create a free profile to connect them with companies seeking their unique skills. "[C]andidates complete one instrument, but embedded within it are multiple measures, including job interest, self-assessed skill, experience, and personality," according to the article. After the student-created profile is finished, it goes to a database that hiring managers can search. Here, candidates are ranked by characteristics instead of skill. Companies are then able to contact the seeker directly, and a subscription fee is paid by the company based on volume and projected usage.
In a May 2016 article, TechCrunch discusses the job-matching platform UpScored, whose goal is to show potential employees the jobs they are most likely to get - and to do it within two minutes. The process for job seekers is:
**Sign up through LinkedIn, Facebook, or email and upload resume, noting the level of seniority the applicant seeks
**Describe self on three sliding scales: "from organized to adaptable, creative to analytical and tie to hoodie," according to the article.
**Specify what is important in the job search "by selecting two of the four most important factors...compensation and benefits, career progression, work/life balance and strong mentorship," the article continues.
**Choose at least two industries of interest.
UpScored then reveals a list of jobs and the seeker's UpScore, which is determined by "the company's algorithm that reflects how good of a fit [he or she is] for the job," according to TechCrunch. The higher the score, the more likely the job seeker will get a particular job. The platform also learns a user's preferences as they rate different opportunities.
Noted in the Brookings report, Knack is an app-based job search platform whose founders include experts in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, big data and data science, computer science and software engineering, game design, and user-experience design," according to the company's website. According to the Brookings report, employers are increasingly focusing on soft skills, which digital job platforms can assess with innovative criteria and tools. "Knack uses video games to measure a job seeker's soft skills and behavioral qualities, such as creativity, persistence, extroversion, and leadership abilities," according to the report. The app then suggests professions best matching the user's strengths.
Similarly, Pymetrics (also featured in the Brookings report) "uses neuroscience-based games to more objectively assess a job seeker's cognitive and emotional traits," according to the report. Its algorithms predict success in more than 100 careers based on the data, and the tests help job seekers "from nontraditional pools who might otherwise have been screened out," in addition to helping employers fill "lower-skilled positions where soft skills are more important than academic credentials or technical skills," according to the report.
In another example from Brookings, Viridis assists students by offering training and certifications linked to employer needs. The report states: "Viridis allows students to build highly tailored career pathways, accumulate verified work experience and education credentials, and identify suitable employers and positions; meanwhile, Viridis streamlines recruiting by sourcing job seekers who have proven they possess the skills, ability, and interests required by the employer."
This company provides job-matching services by using job seekers' skill sets, personality traits, and compensation metrics, according to HireKeep's website. Free to job seekers, the platform analyzes their answers to an assessment and determines a "Candidate Match Profile based on...personality, values, goals, skill-set, and various other factors," the website states. The user is then matched with positions at "high-growth companies" based on this profile, and clients of this service include HubSpot, Fidelis Cybersecurity, and Hanover Research.
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