Leap.Ai , The new way to look for jobs?

There’s a growing number of companies and products that seek to fix problems with today's hiring process. One of the most common problems faced by companies & applicants these days is the ineffectiveness of jobs boards.  Navigating a job board starts with entering a couple keywords and being met with thousands of jobs that somewhat match. While it is possible for you to reduce those results by refining your search the process of combing and applying to numerous opportunities can be extremely time-consuming. The time-consuming nature of this process does not only hurt applicants it reduces the talent pool available to top companies by adding friction to the job search process.

Leap.Ai is flipping the process on its head eliminating the pain of spending hours on a job board looking for jobs that may be a match. Candidates simply upload their resume, take a quiz and an algorithm matches them with companies and jobs that match their skill set and experience. If you are a match you can indicate your interest in the role with a click and the platform creates soft introduction putting you ahead of other candidates as someone who has been pre-screened.


What do you think of this company's methodology for matching candidates with employers? Do you see this technology improving the process of seeking jobs for students? Do you think this will have a positive impact on internal recruiters for large companies?


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  1. Sarah Cumming21 March 2018 at 20:29

    I really enjoyed this post because the job-search is something that I have had trouble with in the past. I definitely would argue that Leap Ai could be a useful alternative, especially for students, while also having some downsides.

    Personally, I find navigating job boards quite intimidating, and ultimately ineffective most of the time. Even the amount of time that I would have to spend scrolling through pages of jobs that only match one of the keywords in my search just makes it something that I really don’t want to do. I think the convenience of this application being able to find potential jobs matches for me is one of the main reasons I would want to use it, and I think that this kind of technology would make the job-search for our generation, as we are the most reliant on our smartphones, more appealing and a lot easier. I do however feel that this takes away from the importance of networking and gaining experience that comes from meeting face-to-face with recruiters. Perhaps if we know that we can simply be matched with a job, we may feel that we do not need to put in as much effort into the job search, and instead of going out and actively networking to find jobs, we will become more comfortable not having to make these connections ourselves. Overall, although it may take a lot of the stress out of the job-search process, I think that there are certain consequences that can occur if we choose not to involve ourselves in the experience of finding a job and may lose key skills that this process may offer.

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