Ripplematch

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin New York-based college recruiting startup RippleMatch raised $45 million in Series B funding, the company announced Wednesday. The investment values the company at $205 million as it bulks up to take on traditional job search giants like LinkedIn and Indeed. The round was led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from G20 Ventures and Work–Bench. Cofounder and CEO Andrew Myers declined to provide the company’s revenue, but said the new funding will allow RippleMatch to hire more engineers, data scientists and product managers to boost its job-matching technology. Myers, a Yale University dropout, teamed up with fellow student and now company president Eric Ho, in 2016 to create RippleMatch , a platform that uses AI to match college students with jobs and give employers a more diverse pool of candidates. With more than 2 million users creating profiles to get interviewed by RippleMatch clients like Amazon and General … [Read more...] about Gen Z Recruiting Startup RippleMatch Raises $45 Million To Boost Job-Matching Technology

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Andrew Myers can still recall the look on his mother’s face when he said he was dropping out of Yale University. While the rest of the junior class was applying for internships to jumpstart their careers, he was building a startup to help them get hired. At the same time, his intramural soccer buddy and Yale senior Eric Ho turned down a $300,000 job offer from Facebook so they could cofound RippleMatch , an early career recruiting platform that connects employers with more diverse talent. “It was just really crummy to see the way that, based off of your standardized test scores or who your college guidance counselor was, you were tracked on to different paths at age 18,” CEO Myers says. “It was just an area where you realize that technology could probably deliver way better outcomes for both employers and candidates.” Five years later, the New York-based startup is helping more than one million early career job … [Read more...] about Need Help Landing A Post-Grad Job? This Startup Says It Can Give You A 60% Shot At Scoring An Interview

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A s the class of 2022 loads their twin XL sheets and overpriced textbooks into their parents’ SUVs, they’re met not just with the existential questions of fresh grads ( What am I doing with my life? How do I excel at my job? ) but also with questions that have been dominating the news cycle: Do I even want to be in an office? What happens if my company starts laying people off? Will I find better professional prospects if I land a job now or in a few months? One Under 30-founded startup wants to help alleviate this sense of dread: Gen-Z recruiting company RippleMatch . The startup announced this week that it had raised a new $45 million Series B round from investors such as Goldman Sachs (whose analysts are not known for their workplace satisfaction ) to be the new LinkedIn for young professionals. Read about RippleMatch here . Speaking of young talent, the Forbes newsroom just gained some of its own: a … [Read more...] about The Class Of 2022 Enters A Shaky Workforce. This Under 30 Startup Wants To Help.

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Here is this week’s Careers newsletter, which brings the latest news, commentary and ideas about the workplace, leadership and the future of work straight to your inbox every Tuesday. Click here to get on the newsletter list! S alary ranges should be like the nutritional labels on food packaging, one human resources executive wrote in response to my story last week, which reported that Microsoft will be among the first major corporations to include pay information in all U.S. job postings. “Why have we not always done this?” wrote Steve Cadigan , LinkedIn’s first chief human resources officer and a future-of-work expert who wrote the book Workquake , on LinkedIn. “It’s kinda sad that we see this as a big deal.” Yet it is. In a blog post , the tech giant said Wednesday that it would disclose salary ranges in all internal and external U.S. job postings no later than January 2023. That date is … [Read more...] about Pay Ranges Are Coming To Job Postings. Why Hasn’t It Happened Before Now?