HigherMe：帮助雇主更精准地招聘钟点工
对很多工作来说，简历有时并不能帮你找到合适的人。而 HigherMe（是目前 YCombinator 正在孵化的创业公司之一）的联合创始人罗伯·亨特告诉我，对零售业和其他计时的职位来说尤其如此，住处、能上班的时间、性格比以前做过什么工作更重要。
这也正是亨特之前经营多家 Marble Slab 冰激凌连锁店时发现的。他回忆起一名叫肯德拉（Kendra）的早期员工。这名员工与大多数高中生一样，简历上乏善可陈，她参加足球队和做保姆的经历说明不了她冰激凌做得怎么样，一些输入和拼写错误也说明不了什么问题。
“如果只看简历，我不会给她这份工作，”亨特告诉我。但他发现她的性格是“你能想象到的最开朗的”，而且更重要的是，她就住在冰激凌店旁边，能按他的要求倒班。
回想一下，亨特认为雇佣肯德拉是个非常明智的决定，因为在上大学前，她在店里干了好几年，“帮我赚了很多钱”。因此，亨特与联合创始人杰夫·切德维尔（Jef Chedeville）和埃文·洛奇（Evan Lodge）一起创建了 HigherMe，帮助雇主寻找肯德拉一样的员工。
HigherMe 是这样运作的：你向雇主提供他们最感兴趣的信息，其中当然也包括以往的工作经验，但 HigherMe 还需要提供你的住址和能上班的时间，它也会列出雇主想问你的一些问题。你还可以录制一个“求职视频”，可能比写求职信更能展示你的性格。
接下来，当有新申请时，雇主就会收到一封邮件，里面是求职者情况的概要，还会给求职者对此职位的适合度打分（满分为 100）。这样雇主就不用从一大堆纸质简历中慢慢筛选了。雇主的控制面板上还能显示所有求职者，方便雇主联系求职者及安排面试。
亨特说，今年年初推出 HigherMe 以后，他的精力主要放在招商以及吸引求职者上，例如通过投放地理定位广告吸引求职者。这一策略理论上适用于任何地点，因此亨特说他们公司不会只在一个城市里开展业务。
这个服务对求职者是免费的。对雇主，费用为每月每个地点 50 美元到“几百美元”。亨特说，不少想招计时工的创业公司也在使用 HigherMe，这些公司虽没有实体店，但他们需要更灵活的收费方式。
HigherMe 不是目前 YC 支持的创业公司中唯一关注人才招聘的公司。
来源：TC
YC-Backed HigherMe Promises A Smarter Approach To Applying For Retail Jobs And Other Hourly Work
When you’re trying to find the right person for a job, résumés don’t always cut it.
I suspect that’s true for many jobs, but Rob Hunter, co-founder of HigherMe (part of the current batch of startups incubated at Y Combinator), told me that it’s particularly true in retail jobs and other hourly positions — location, availability, and personality can be more important than the jobs you have or haven’t held in the past.
That’s something Hunter himself saw when he owned multiple Marble Slab Creamery stores. He recalled hiring an early employee, Kendra, who — like most high schoolers — had an unimpressive résumé. After all, her experience on the soccer team and as a babysitter didn’t say much about her ice cream serving skills, and the typos didn’t help, either.
“If I’d just seen her résumé, I would not have given her the shifts,” Hunter told me. But he saw that she had “the brightest young personality that you could have imagined,” and perhaps even more importantly, she lived right by the store and was available for the shifts he needed.
Looking back, Hunter described hiring Kendra as a great decision, because she stuck around for years (before heading to college) and “made me a lot of money.” So along with his co-founders Jef Chedeville and Evan Lodge, Hunter built HigherMe to help employers find the Kendras of the world.
Here’s how it works when you’re applying for a job: You provide the information that the employer is most interested in. And yes, that includes past experience, but HigherMe leads with your location and available hours, as well as covering questions that the employer wants to ask. You can also create a “video cover letter,” which will (hopefully) do a better job of conveying your personality than a few written paragraphs.
Then, instead of having to sift through a giant pile of résumés, the employer gets an email every time there’s a new application with a quick summary of the applicant, including a rating (out of 100 percent) that shows how good a fit they seem to be. The employer also gets a dashboard showing all applications, allowing them to reach out and schedule interviews.
Since launching earlier this year, Hunter said he’s focused on attracting businesses first, then bringing in job applicants, for example through geographically targeted ads. That strategy is theoretically repeatable in any location, so Hunter said the company isn’t limiting itself to any one city.
The service is free for applicants. For employers, pricing ranges from $50 to “several hundred dollars” per month per location. (Hunter said HigherMe is also being used by startups that are looking to hire hourly workers, though without brick-and-mortar stores, they require a more creative pricing plan.)
HigherMe isn’t the only company in the current YC class to tackle hiring — in fact, we just wrote about SmartHires, which is focused on tech talent.
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