Leap.ai: Two former Google employees create app to help you find work
LEAP.AI: TWO FORMER GOOGLE EMPLOYEES CREATE APP TO HELP
YOU FIND WORK
By Stephen Jordan — Updated August 27, 2017 6:25 pm
If you're someone in the tech field having trouble
landing your dream job, Leap.ai is here to help you.
Everybody wants to be able to find a job that they love,
though the hiring process isn’t always want we want it to be. Richard Liu and
Yunkai Zhou want to help those in the tech industry get interviewed for the
kinds of jobs that they really want. The two ex-Google engineers have created a
startup called Leap.ai, and the app’s goal is to help make things easier for those
searching for a tech-related job.
The app officially launched on August 22 with $2.4
million in seed money. What you do is sign up on Leap.ai’s website or iOS app
and create a profile for yourself, much like any other social media app. You
submit a self-assessment, detailing your strengths, what types of jobs you
prefer as well as your values as an individual. The algorithm then goes to
work, matching your information with what a company is looking for in a
potential employee. Once a match has been made, Leap.ai lets you know about the
potential opportunity and sends your resume to the employer.
Not only does it go ahead and send the resume, but the
app also delivers a letter of recommendation of sorts — an explanation of why
the job seeker is a great match for the company and position. Leap.ai sets out
to handle a lot of the work for you, making the act of job-seeking easier.
Dropbox, Zoom, and Uber are just a few of the customers
the app has, which claims 50 in total. “We chose to partner with ZhenFund
partially due to their strong brand recognition and Mr. Bob Xu’s strong
influence over the young generation in China,” Liu, cofounder and CEO, wrote in
an email to VentureBeat.
“I probably hired 500 people into my division,” Liu told
TechCrunch in an interview. “We learned that hiring is hard. Your ability to
learn, collaborate or take initiative are strong characteristics, but it is
hard to get a feel for them from an interview. Curiosity and drive, in an
interview process you can’t do too much to gauge that.”
Customers are charged when they hire a candidate through
the platform, with the rate being based on the first-year salary.
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