New Requiting Platform Uses Anonymous Profiles To Help Tech Companies
Most working people aren’t looking for a new job, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t open to the opportunity. For example LinkedIn’s Talent Trends Report, 85% of people are employed and satisfied with their position. Among them, only 25% are looking for their next role. Launching out of beta today, Woo is aimed at luring one of the most in-demand yet passive job-seeking talents: the tech worker. Woo is entering an increasingly crowded market populated by the likes of Jobr or Switch that lets not-so-active job seekers post a resume with an option to remain anonymous until they connect with an employer. Woo is trying to separate from the pack with its functionality example promotion, experience in new technologies, working at big company/start-up, etc. They can import information from platforms such as LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and others can be added manually. In a demo, Kotzer shows how recruiters will only be able to see the profile if it’s a match based on the candidate’s terms. Woo has been in beta test mode since last March (when it was called HighR), focusing on companies in Silicon Valley and Kotzer’s native Israel. Among some 4,000 users, Kotzer says they were employed by a spectrum of startups, as well as Uber and Google.