nspHire, a new job matching app slated to drop on iOS November 1, is built with millennials in mind. The app is a direct outgrowth of
MBA Project Search and uses LinkedIn's API, but the interface should feel familiar to anyone who has used matchmaking app
Tinder, with both recruiters and job-seekers swiping left to reject, right to accept a potential match. Android users can check out
nspHire now.
"Filling a job [often] depends on speed," says Rasheen Carbin, cofounder and director of marketing for nspHire, which the current recruitment process isn't built for. "Recruiters get stacks of resumes and they spend time eliminating people, rather than looking for the right person."
Carbin hopes nspHire will change job recruitment for the better, both for recruiters and for job seekers. Job seekers log into the app with their LinkedIn username and password to set up an nspHire profile; much of the data is prepopulated from the user's LinkedIn profile but can be changed or tweaked as needed. Users click a few buttons to let the app know whether they are looking for full-time, part-time, freelance or other types of work, fill in a zipcode and the distance they are willing to travel, and check boxes to indicate the type of industry and work that they do. On the privacy side, users can choose to share or hide their name, photo, current and past places of employment and salary rates.
Recruiters create profiles as well and change them as the positions they are recruiting for change. Then the app takes over and starts making matches. When a user's parameters match those of a recruiter's, nspHire sends a notification to both parties. Both have the ability to swipe left or right to decline or accept someone's interest in them. And once a match is made, job seekers and recruiters can chat right in the app—and that's where nspHire will monetize.
"We charge the recruiters for the conversations they have with candidate," Carbin says. "It's $1 per conversation." There is no charge for job seekers to use nspHire.
The nspHire team of three is actively looking for a chief technology officer. "We outsourced development and we would love to bring it in house," Carbin says.