Work Matchmaking

I’ve been looking for my next work opportunity and I’ve discovered a resource I wanted to share with the 200,000+ people who have been laid off this year and anyone with an interest in work matchmaking or interviewing.?

I strongly recommend Andrew LaCivita ’s content to all job seekers and recruitment teams. The insights he shares from his 15 years as an executive recruiter have helped me improve interview conversations as a candidate and an interviewer to make better use of everyone's time. Some of his high-energy, high signal-to-noise ratio content can be found here on his YouTube channel.??

Two key callouts from engaging with his top notch free content:?

1. ~70% of people would change jobs if given the chance?
2. ~1-2% of applications yield an interview

Say what you will about job satisfaction, glassdoor reviews, the economy and the rest of it, roughly 7 in 10 employees would prefer to work… elsewhere.?

Are these results surprising when our systems fail us across every phase of ‘attract, retain, grow.’? The cost of the consequent churn is high in dollars to companies and expensive emotionally and financially for employees and families. The current state of matching talent to opportunity is broken. It’s under-examined, inefficient, and suffers from known biases we now have the technology to fix, if not the will. It yields disastrous matches and unnecessary and costly churn. Automations designed to make this job easier ironically magnify common problems faced by talent acquisition teams and recruiters. Considering the stakes and low levels of satisfaction with the current state, these dynamics have primed the space for disruption.?

Imagine a platform that passively matches professionals with compatible work styles. It could address several underlying aspects of the current state that prevent companies from actualizing their aspirational versions of the ‘attract, retain, grow,’ mantra.?

Decades of lived experiences have informed this product vision:

• Hundreds of interview conversations from all around the hiring desk
• Hundreds of applications submitted via company portals / ATS?
• Tens of thousands of calls and emails using various technologies to track performance and deliver bespoke value?
• Exposure to conversational intelligence tools like Wingman, Chorus, Gong, Outreach?
• Constant learning and curiosity about technologies like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Jitsi, Otter.ai, Tactiq, Salesforce Einstein and Genie
• Interviews with hiring managers and colleagues about their pains with 'attract, retain, grow' processes (hiring, interviewing, working, etc.)
• Failures and one critical success with online dating platforms

Imagine the online dating model applied to matching people at work based on work compatibility. That’s the tip of the iceberg. Cultivating meaningful, enduring relationships based on trust is made more achievable with brave sharing and transparent data.

Similarities between dating and interviewing abound. People wanted a more efficient way to discover one another relative to chance encounters and small talk, so dating apps were born. Why not apply a similar approach to work matchmaking?

Examples:

The matchmaking system surfaces something trivial that you and a fellow meeting participant shared: you both have the same breed of dog. This low-stakes information share provides a conversation starter and maybe some shared context, quickly.

OR…

You have both contributed millions of dollars of recurring revenue as individual contributors. This is also a low-stakes information share and unlocks potentially more interesting and relevant business conversations to discover work fit.

Exploring what peers have shared about core values, communication styles, work preferences, work/life balance priorities, and more could enrich conversations and unlock human potential.?

Helping people better see, understand, and collaborate with one another provides value for any team. With better mutual visibility and understanding, those responsible for attracting, retaining, and growing people would improve their chances of success and unlock new opportunities beyond what is possible today.

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