We've been cranking on a new project that we're calling Handshake to help companies, especially smaller tech companies, do a better job hiring.
We're still in development right now, but we wanted to get the conversation going with people that we think would benefit from this kind of service. With all of the entrepreneurs and business owners on HN, I'd love to hear what pain points their organizations face when it comes to hiring people.
Handshake comes out of our experience growing an engineering team. Our problems were a lack of formal process that led to disorganization on our part when figuring out things like : Who will review incoming resumes? Who will interview this candidate? What'd we think of them? All the while, of course, coordinating this with our team and getting back to people who applied in a timely way.
If you're like us, you set up an email alias (hiring@mycompany.com) and had people send you resumes that blast out to a few people on the team. Great start, of course, but you also know that once you have more than one or two people on the email thread it gets tough to have a conversation about or with candidates. Quickly, reviewing these emails becomes a bottle neck in your hiring process, creating context switches throughout the day for your team, lowering productivity. Handshake sits transparently between that email inbox and your team, centralizing all incoming resumes and conversations associated with a job post and giving your company a sane workflow that to help you collaborate on your hiring decisions.
Please sign up for our mailing list if you think your company can benefit from having a tool like Handshake. We'll be sure to reach out to you so you can give the app a trial run once we get closer to release and make sure that we're providing the value you need to help you make great hiring decisions.
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