Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog
COO & Co-Founder, Ash Geria (left), and, Director of Community & Strategic Alliances, Scott Poniewaz (right), accept The Workies award for “Best Sourcing Technology.”
At this year’s Work Awesome conference, Reflik earned the top spot in the category of “Best Sourcing Technology” as part of 2019’s The Workies awards. Reflik edged out finalists in the category, which included runners-up, Greenhouse and JobDiva. [Read more…]
With an increase in cyber attacks, companies and organizations are more focused than ever on increasing cybersecurity and protecting data. While big companies struggle to cope with these security breaches, small businesses are equally at risk. They’re often even a bigger target for cybercriminals because their security defenses are weaker than those of larger companies.
This means that cybersecurity professionals are more necessary than ever. But this high demand for security is creating a severe shortage of cybersecurity talent for companies of all sizes. In 2019, companies are becoming more desperate to come up with solutions for recruiting and hiring skilled professionals.
Hiring in IT software and hardware has always been a highly competitive area for recruitment. It’s a landscape undergoing near constant change with new technologies and challenges arriving every year. 2019 is already showing signs as being competitive in most industries; it’s called “The War for Talent” and many businesses don’t feel as though they are winning. The situation in Information Technology is particularly competitive in the world of talent acquisition.
Technologies in development and just entering the market now is adding new roles every day. Clearly, there will not be enough people to fill them. We took a deep dive into the 2019 hiring trends for software, technology and IT professionals in a recent webinar (recording here). For your convenience, we have summarized the key takeaways. [Read more…]
2018 has been a great year for the financial services industry. Continued shrinking of the unemployment figures saw a ratio of 1:1 of job openings against unemployed figures for the first time since the year 2000. The start of 2019 will likely see 6,000 more new openings across all industries for finance and accounting roles, rising to 163,000 in January from 157,000 in December 2018. It’s looking like a great year, but one with several trends indicating potential problems if not addressed.
You can view the full webinar from December highlighting the 2019 trends for hiring accounting & finance talent below, but for your convenience, we have summarized many of the key takeaways that our research uncovered:
SOMERSET, N.J., Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Reflik, the leader in crowdsourcing talent, today announced that it has partnered with SmartRecruiters, the Hiring Success Company, to offer a new way to source top talent on SmartRecruiters’ Marketplace. The partnership integrates Reflik’s innovative talent crowdsourcing platform into SmartRecruiter’s complete talent acquisition platform, to help companies find quality candidates in half the time and for half the cost.
Reflik sources top-quality candidates from its extensive network of thousands of recruiters and industry professionals. Then, Reflik’s proprietary algorithm and dedicated account managers filter and rigorously screen the most qualified people to deliver the 10 most qualified and ready-to-interview candidates in less than 10 days. Employers only pay for a successful hire, while recruiters and industry professionals receive cash rewards for successful hires.
“We are thrilled to launch Reflik on SmartRecruiters’ Marketplace and help more customers source top talent,” said Ashish Vachhani, CEO of Reflik, Inc. “Reflik is an innovative way to find talent – we crowdsource the most qualified candidates through our extensive recruiting community and our dedicated account managers drive the process. We are able find the right people quickly for less.”
The SmartRecruiters Marketplace dramatically eases the traditional pain of integrating 3rd party recruiting solutions into applicant tracking systems by providing over 250 pre-integrated sourcing, advertising, testing, and screening solutions.
“We are pleased to have Reflik join the SmartRecruiter Marketplace and impressed with how well their technology integrates with ours” said Jerome Ternynck, SmartRecruiters Founder and CEO. “Recruiting and hiring candidates through crowdsourcing is a new and powerful way to identify, source and engage with potential applicants. Together with Reflik, SmartRecruiters will help customers accelerate their hiring efforts and find their dream candidates.”
To learn more about SmartRecruiters’ Marketplace, visit marketplace.smartrecruiters.com
About Reflik
Reflik, the leader in crowdsourcing talent, finds top candidates in half the time and for half the cost, through its extensive network of recruiters and industry professionals. More than 150 businesses use Reflik to hire top candidates, including, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Reckitt Benckiser and CarMax. CIOReview selected Reflik as one of the 20 Most Promising HR Technology Solution Providers of 2016. Learn more at Reflik.com
About SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters’ modern enterprise talent acquisition platform is the generational successor to yesterday’s applicant tracking systems, allowing organizations to find, engage and hire the great talent they need to compete effectively in today’s economy. Atlassian, Ancestry.com, Equinox Fitness Clubs, Marc Jacobs, NBTY, Skechers, and Ubisoft are among the leading enterprises that have replaced their legacy systems with SmartRecruiters’ intuitive, powerful and complete solution. For more information, follow us at @SmartRecruiters, on LinkedIn or on https://www.smartrecruiters.com.
Media Contact: Kristen Fletcher, Reflik, 631-398-3456, [email protected]
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StartUp Beat has featured Reflik in an article written by Oliver Griffin. Griffen lays out the major points behind Reflik’s success, including:
Read the full article here.
We are so grateful to Oliver and the entire StartUp Beat team for featuring Reflik. We encourage you to check it out, not only to get a better understanding of Reflik’s innovations in the recruiting and HR space but to understand the broader landscape of innovative companies across industries and around the world. StartUp Beat is truly a pioneer when it comes to digital journalism in general and covering these kinds of companies in particular.
Recently, Reflik was featured in How Crowdsourcing Is Transforming The Workplace in Forbes. Reflik CEO, Ash Vachhani described how talent crowdsourcing is positively changing the recruiting industry for recruiters, industry professionals, and employers!
Below is a brief excerpt from the article.
While crowdsourcing has become easily successful in the general marketplace, it has not always been present within a more traditional workplace. That was, until Reflik entered the arena. I heard from Ashish Vachhani, CEO of Reflik, on how the company works. “Reflik crowdsources talent – we find top candidates in half the time and for half the cost, through our extensive network of recruiters and industry professionals. We cast a wide net, which increases the chances of employers finding their dream candidate. Our proprietary algorithm and dedicated account managers filter and rigorously screen the most qualified candidates. We pick the ten most qualified and ready-to-interview candidates in less than ten days.”
The rest of article describes how crowdsourcing is transforming the workplace and many industries. Examples of other crowdsourcing marketplaces include UpWork, OneSpace, AirBnB, and Uber. The Reflik team is thrilled to be transforming the workplace by providing a recruiting marketplace that is helping recruiters, industry professionals. and employers place candidates more quickly and efficiently.
You can read the full article here.
College is increasingly seen as the primary gateway to a successful life in the United States as more bright-eyed students are entering four year universities. Unfortunately, many of these students attending state universities or lesser known colleges will discover after four years that firms give priority to students from “brand name” universities over those from less prestigious institutions regardless of experience, grades, or activities. In Lauren Rivera’s article, Firms Are Wasting Millions Recruiting on Only a Few Campuses, ironically published in Harvard Business Review, she outlines how top firms are actually losing hefty sums by recruiting exclusively from select institutions. According to many firms, they seek candidates from particular schools because they believe students at these institutions have the traits desired by the firm. Apparently clients of firms also feel more at ease with a consultant or associate with an impressive alma mater on their resume. Clearly hiring managers at top firms have strong feelings about recruiting from top universities but are they right to be prejudiced against lower ranked colleges?
Rivera certainly doesn’t think so as she lays out clear reasons for why top firms should consider recruiting from lesser known schools.
Many top-performing students, especially those from limited means may attend schools that better match their budget, turning down universities with better recognition. By limiting hiring exclusively to the top ten schools in the nation, hiring managers are not exposing themselves to students from diverse backgrounds and means who would provide value to a firm.
Top firms attract talent by sending ambassadors to universities to host receptions, info sessions, luncheons, and dinners to find great candidates for future employment. Quotas are allocated for certain schools and before applications are received, jobs are set aside for certain prestigious universities. The whole process is costly and inefficient, qualified candidates are ignored if they’re from the wrong school and the cost of ambassadors/events can quickly add up.
Hiring managers often have an idea of top schools in mind without actually knowing whether these schools produce better employees. For example, a state university’s engineering department could produce better engineers than a lower-ranked Ivy League department but a hiring manager will still pick the Ivy-League student over the better prepared state university student. Researchers even found that students from top-tier schools are significantly less satisfied at large law firms than those with a less prestigious institution on their resume. A portion will even leave the job within two years after being hired from dissatisfaction, not allowing firms to recoup the amount they spent on recruitment or training.
Rivera found that many of the top universities, regardless of focus, are less likely to offer adequate instruction of the skills necessary to work at positions provided by firms. Companies are forced to provide training that can last up to a year for graduates, a huge cost added to recruiting fees. For example, students from higher-ranked universities are not usually the best performers on skill exams like the Bloomberg Aptitude Test.
Rivera ends her article by encouraging firms to look beyond status-quo recruiting strategies to find un-tapped talent from lower-ranked universities, who likely have better skills and will cost less in the long term. Change is certainly necessary if top firms wish to remain competitive and acquire the most qualified candidates. A vital tool that employers can utilize to acquire the best talent possible is the Reflik platform. Rather than spending large sums on college ambassador programs, where thousands are spent on travel, lodging, and lavish food spreads, firms could post open positions on the Reflik platform, where independent recruiters and individuals refer highly qualified candidates directly at no cost unless a candidate is hired. Referrals are analyzed and the most qualified candidates from the list are passed along to the employer to ensure maximum efficiency. Sometimes traditions have to be broken and Reflik is leading the charge in radically transforming the recruiting industry.
Source: Harvard Business Review
LinkedIn is the most popular professional network for connecting with colleagues, advertising yourself as a candidate, and sharing content applicable to your trade. With so many people joining LinkedIn daily, it’s important to differentiate yourself with a well-organized and informative profile. The best LinkedIn profiles effectively summarize the key aspects of a user’s career and are interesting to read without providing unnecessary details. As LinkedIn becomes increasingly more important in the professional world, here are some of the most important ways you can maximize your LinkedIn profile.
While populating your account with pertinent career information should be your primary goal when editing your LinkedIn account, select personal details make all the difference in making yourself appear more personable and interesting. For example, adding a few personal interests in your summary can serve as an easy ice-breaker for new connections eager to learn more about you.
In your summary, you should give an overview of your professional career complete with what you do at your current position, career ambitions, any pertinent skills, and as mentioned previously a few personal details to liven up your profile.
A personalized LinkedIn account isn’t complete without regular interactions with connections.
After following some of our tips for maximizing your LinkedIn, you can get started making the most of your newly edited profiled! Here are a few ways you can leverage LinkedIn to your benefit.
Crowdsourcing is the process of acquiring services or information by seeking contributions from communities, particularly from those that are online. Some of the most successful new companies on the market are currently using this process to make people’s lives easier and better. Reflik will regularly be releasing blog posts from a number of authors on the Crowdsourcing Revolution, where we will be comparing the origins and strategies of the exciting new companies that are utilizing crowdsourcing at the core of their business.
Airbnb’s rise from a San Francisco startup to a global success with 1,500,000 listings and a valuation at $20 billion certainly did not occur overnight. Co-founders of Airbnb, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia began their entrepreneurial journey humbly in a small apartment trying to get by while working on a completely different venture. With barely enough money on hand to eat, they rented out a room of their apartment with the promise of breakfast in the morning. They created a simple website and quickly had three renters sign up for a cost much lower than the average hotel. Soon after, ‘Airbed & Breakfast” was born just in time for the 2008 Democratic National Convention held in Denver, Colorado, where hotels were filled to the brink and passionate politicos needed places to stay.
As Airbed & Breakfast rapidly scaled its operation, the founders found a brilliant set of products to take advantage of the 2008 presidential election. They bought generic cereal in bulk and designed new boxes named Obama O’s after Senator Barack Obama and Cap’n McCains after Senator John McCain. This terrific idea raised $30,000 for the venture and the team was quickly proving that their creativity could be highly profitable. Soon after in 2009, Airbed & Breakfast joined Y Combinator and earned an additional $20,000 in funding. Seeking a catchier name, Airbed & Breakfast was renamed Airbnb and the team began the hunt for more funding, eventually receiving an offer of $600,000 from Y Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Airbnb’s overnight success became a headache for the growing company as new policies needed to be added to support a wider customer base. With increased transactions and the obvious problems that arose with them, Airbnb was quick to remedy problems and install new policies. For example, Airbnb began providing insurance for those renting out homes and apartments to ensure vandalism or theft didn’t deter hosts. Partnerships with travel companies like Concur and buyouts of competitors like CrashPad and LocalMind have propelled Airbnb into global markets, spurring on the growth of users and hosts. With new features like Price Tips, a price recommendation tool for hosts, regularly being added to Airbnb, it is clear that the future is bright for this young company that seeks to revolutionize the hotel industry.
Just as Airbnb gained success crowdsourcing for the hotel industry, Reflik is gaining popularity by crowdsourcing for the recruiting industry. Homeowners now can rent out their empty spaces to individuals seeking an affordable alternative to hotels with Airbnb. In the same way, the recruiting community on Reflik.com leverages their existing database of candidates, social and professional connections, and social networks to fill open positions more efficiently for less money. The crowdsourcing phenomenon is successful because it provides platforms for individuals to market goods and services to each other without the formalities normally required of businesses. Uber, Airbnb, and Reflik are all leading the charge in providing opportunities for everyone to leverage their goods and abilities to a wider community, creating a virtual revolution that is disrupting the taxi, hotel, and recruiting industries.
Source: TechCrunch
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The recruiting industry is evolving at a rapid pace. While old ways of finding new employees included job boards, professional association websites and internal employee referral programs, social recruiting is emerging as the most effective way to find new employees. Unfortunately, many employers previously didn’t have the means to recruit through social media and thus don’t have the experience necessary to take advantage of this opportunity. In contrast, recruiters have been using social media sites like LinkedIn as a source of candidates for years but don’t have a central site to connect these candidates with applicable positions efficiently.
With technology continuing to change daily, so has the behavior of the job seeker. Today’s candidates are much more tech savvy and use social media on a daily basis – often on smart phones or tablets. As millennials increasingly make up a larger portion of the job market, it is essential that efforts are made by recruiters and employers to capture their interest where it is best held, social media. In order to reach those valuable candidates, you have to use social recruiting, which is made easy for employers and recruiters on Reflik.com.
With the tightening of recruiting budgets at many companies, employers need a reliable source of candidates without the hassle of hiring additional staff to perform new tasks. With Reflik.com they don’t have to allot a good deal of time learning how to use social media to find candidates. Reflik helps manage the process for employers – saving both time and money!
Reflik is based on social recruiting through crowdsourcing. We help employers find candidates by using the “crowd” – all those people on social media. You sign-up and post your job for free with a referral reward that you decide on. Then our “crowd”, which consists of independent recruiters and members find high-quality candidates for you. You only pay the referral reward if a successful hire is made. Social recruiting done the Reflik way is much more cost effective and efficient than recruiting the traditional way with job boards, costing hundreds of dollars for each listing, as well as each site and recruiting firms charging a large percentage of a year’s salary. In short, Reflik lets you be in control.
When you sign-up with Reflik as an independent recruiter, you have access to all of our hard-to-reach job listing without having to become an approved vendor. All you need to do is sign up! The process is simple; you find a great candidate through social recruiting or your own networking for the right position and you get the referral reward. You aren’t at a disadvantage against big firms and we manage much of the process for you.
We can automate your communication through social media platforms and email – or you can do it yourself with a unique link that connects the job listing to your account. Anyone who applies with that link is connected to you – you can track the process through Reflik.com and then when your candidate is hired, we distribute the payment for you. In fact, here are the top 6 reasons why independent recruiters love Reflik.
In today’s tough job market, with most of your target candidates spending a lot of their time on social media, social recruiting is the new trend that you can’t afford to miss. Reflik makes it happen, right now.
Check out how Reflik can work for you by watching our “how it works” video.
Reflik is changing the recruiting game through the power of social media and crowdsourcing. We know that the best source of candidates is through referrals. Our referral-driven system uses a proprietary matching algorithm to match great jobs with great people. It’s a win-win-win. Employers win by getting the best candidates through referrals for less money. Recruiters win by accessing more job listings using our automated system and through earning referral rewards. Members and job-seekers win by finding great jobs and getting real rewards. Check out Reflik today to see how rewarding it is!
Reflik is leading the charge in the recruiting revolution, radically altering the way status-quo recruiting is carried out. By utilizing social media, Reflik allows independent recruiters to find better candidates more easily for employers. Internal and external candidates can be reached by referrals on Reflik, ensuring only the best of the best are chosen. This groundbreaking recruiting solution will guarantee quality hires for your company, regardless of profession or industry!
So why did we do it? To connect great candidates with hard-to-fill positions, benefiting the candidates, employers, and recruiters.
When companies are expanding and hiring lots of candidates, competition for the right candidates is tough. When the job market is tight, there are still openings to fill but companies need more than a warm body, they need the best candidate.
No matter what the job market looks like, there are always great candidates around. Companies and recruiters need a better way to find those candidates – even if they are “passive job seekers.”
Nearly every adult in the U.S. is on social media, meaning there is an endless supply of candidates available with the right recruitment method. Social media better connects us both socially and professionally. Reflik allows recruiters to better utilize networks as valuable resources. The best recruiting practices have to tap into social media.
With the changing face of technology and how we communicate with one another, companies have to move away from job boards and association websites. They aren’t as attractive to the career-set as they once were. In addition, posting with job boards and associations can be more time consuming and more costly than letting the “crowd” find your employees for you. This is crowdsourcing.
Employers find that candidates hired through referrals are quicker to hire. They also are a better fit with the company culture – and they stay longer. Unfortunately, internal employee referral programs just don’t often have enough power to fill all available spots. Social media recruiting does.
Reflik was designed to use the best recruiting practices in today’s techworld. We take advantage of social media use but still allow recruiters to integrate their own databases. This gives employers the best chance of finding that perfect candidate – and it gives the jobseeker, the best chance to find their dream job.
To pat ourselves on the back just a bit, we believe Reflik is the best recruiting method available on the market today. It is free to use when signing up as a Member, an Employer, or a Recruiter – referral fees are paid only if a successful hire is made – but it is a great incentive.
Reflik is changing the recruiting game through the power of social media and crowdsourcing. We know that the best source of candidates is through referrals. Our referral-driven system uses a proprietary matching algorithm to match great jobs with great people. It’s a win-win-win. Employers win by getting the best candidates through referrals for less money. Recruiters win by accessing more job listings, using our automated system and through hiring rewards. Members and job-seekers win by finding great jobs and getting real rewards. Check out Reflik today to see how rewarding it is!
by Ash Geria
Crowdsourcing is a “buzzword” that describes procuring services or goods from the “crowd.” Crowdsourcing is being widely used for soliciting funding, ideas and many other things, but the newest use of crowdsourcing is for talent acquisition.
Talent Crowdsourcing is the practice of leveraging a large community of independent recruiters, staffing firms, and in many cases industry professionals, to recruit and hire talent that matches the strategic and cultural goals of an organization.
Companies know that referrals are the best way to find candidates to fill open positions. Referrals are often more qualified, take less time to hire and “fit” the company culture better but, in most cases, sources of good referrals are limited to in-house recruiting programs.
Companies may also know how much time people spend on social media – but they don’t know how to take advantage of it and put the two together. The answer – crowdsourcing for recruiting.
Reflik is a game-changing system in recruiting based on social media networking and crowdsourcing. We help you use the “crowd” to find applicants for your job openings.
Our whitepaper can help you understand how crowdsourcing works and how Reflik’s social media referral platform can help you find the best employees, better and faster than ever before. In “Crowdsourcing for Talent Acquisition” you will learn:
In today’s economy, many companies have been forced to cut recruiting budgets. This means that corporate recruiters and HR managers must make the most of what they have. Reflik can help you increase your hire-rate and make your recruiting process run more smoothly, quickly and efficiently, while providing high-quality applicants for your open positions.
Download our whitepaper “Crowdsourcing for Talent Acquisition” and find out how Reflik can help you today!
In a tight job market, recruiting is a tough business. Companies who have previously had to cut jobs may be hiring again but it can be hard to find the right candidates. Internal recruiting budgets have been cut and companies rely on cost-effective recruiting measures more than ever. Still, making money as an independent recruiter is possible – if you have the right system. Reflik is the “right” system.
Reflik is a recruiting solution – built by professional recruiters. Using Reflik, you can increase your candidate matches, more efficiently – giving you time to find additional candidates. As an independent recruiter, Reflik helps you:
Reflik has top companies listing jobs on our platform. We offer an advantage to companies because job postings are free up front. The company specifies the referral reward – and pays it when a match is made. There is no risk to the company – but recruiters get access to jobs that may not be available other places. Recruiters don’t have to get “approved” vendor status and have equal opportunity to match a candidate to any open job on our system.
The Reflik system is built on a revolutionary platform with an automatic matching algorithm that can match the skills and experience of candidates in your resume database to the requirements of our job listings – and identify matches for you. We increase your efficiency by eliminating the requirement for individual searches – or reliance on your shortlist of who is really “looking.”
Our system can automate your email contacts. Once a potential job match is made, you have the ability to let us send the email – using our language or yours. You can also use the unique link that we generate for each job to manually notify candidates through direct messaging on LinkedIn and Facebook, Twitter posts, or Facebook page posts. Anytime that link is used – it tracks back to your recruiting account so when a successful hire is made – you get the referral reward.
Instead of going it alone and tracking candidate progress and payment status, Reflik does that for you. You can follow your candidate every step of the way. When a candidate you referred is successfully hired and the company referral fee is paid, you get paid automatically. No invoicing, no tracking – no problems.
Active candidates are “looking” for a job and ready to take one right away. These are certainly a resource – but there are a lot more “passive” candidates out there. These are the people who have a job – but might consider a change if the right opportunity comes along. Using our matching algorithm, you can identify those possibilities a lot more efficiently. You can also reach out to connections, friends and followers with an open post on your page or account – making your chance of finding those lucrative passive job-seekers more often.
Because so much of our system is automated and efficient, you spend less time on the tedious, manually-driven part of your job. This gives you more time to network and find additional contacts to recruit.
We were built by recruiters, for recruiters so we know what your challenges are and how to solve them. See our video, check-out our Independent Recruiters page or sign-up for free, today!
Reflik is changing the recruiting game through the power of social media and crowdsourcing. We know that the best source of candidates is through referrals. Our referral-driven system uses a proprietary matching algorithm to match great jobs with great people. It’s a win-win-win. Employers win by getting the best candidates through referrals for less money. Recruiters win by accessing more job listings, using our automated system and through hiring rewards. Members and job-seekers win by finding great jobs and getting real rewards. Check out Reflik today to see how rewarding it is!
As an independent recruiter, you likely have worked hard to network with professionals. You may have found candidates to successfully fill hundreds or even thousands of jobs over the course of your career. You may have dutifully entered each person into your database, whether you made a match or not. If any of these descriptions accurately describe you then you likely have quite a large talent acquisition database.
Being a successful recruiter with a large database, makes your job easier some days. You have access to lots of candidates and you know you can cover just about any job opening with a potential applicant. Other days it is much harder like when you find a great job listing and know you have the perfect candidate but they’re hidden deep within your database.
Having a large database is still great but often it’s difficult to find the right resume, keep resumes up-to-date, and ensure potential candidates are interested in a new position. At some point, your database may be difficult to manage. You need an up-to-date management system to provide logic-based search, a way to make sure that all of your candidate data is current and a better system to communicate with candidates about potential job openings.
Reflik can help you do your job much more easily. Our system is built for recruiters – by recruiters. We help independent talent acquisition professionals drive their recruiting business to new heights.
Our system quickly works to match job listings to candidates in your database without any effort on your part! It is just one of the ways that Reflik can help recruiters make more money. All you have to do is provide the candidate data and our algorithm does the rest. Our system will even securely and confidentially email the candidates for you. If you prefer, you can do the emailing or contacting yourself but we can still keep track of the process for you.
Reflik is designed to work seamlessly with social media as well. When we identify a job match, we generate a link that is uniquely connected to you. If a successful hire is made – you automatically get the referral reward. You no longer have to track applicant progress or chase down payments.
You can communicate through LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or Google+ with an open-post or a direct message to a particular candidate. If you want to do a manual search, you can do that as well. We generate the link and you can send or post it as you deem appropriate.
With Reflik, we can cut down on the amount of manual searching, sorting, notifying and tracking that you have to do. This lets you get back to what you like – matching great candidates with exciting open positions.
You can use Reflik to boost your income – or you can use our system for your full-time business. Reflik puts you back in the driver’s seat with access to more job listings and an automated system that makes your job easier and more profitable.
Reflik is changing the recruiting game through the power of social media and crowdsourcing. We know that the best source of candidates is through referrals. Our referral-driven system uses a proprietary matching algorithm to match great jobs with great people. It’s a win-win-win. Employers win by getting the best candidates through referrals for less money. Recruiters win by accessing more job listings, using our automated system and through hiring rewards. Members and job-seekers win by finding great jobs and getting real rewards. Check out Reflik today to see how rewarding it is!
Crowdsourcing is the process of acquiring services or information by seeking contributions from communities, particularly from those that are online. Some of the most successful new companies on the market are currently using this process to make people’s lives easier and better. Reflik will regularly be releasing blog posts from a number of authors on the Crowdsourcing Revolution, where we will be comparing the origins and strategies of the exciting new companies that are utilizing crowdsourcing at the core of their business.
Prior to becoming a global success worth tens of billions of dollars, Uber was merely an idea in the mind of StumbleUpon founder, Garrett Camp, and entrepreneur, Travis Kalanick. While hanging out one day, they realized that taxis ran an inefficient monopoly on transportation in San Francisco and that this system could be made more streamlined and cost-effective. They discovered that by connecting drivers directly to customers through a phone application, customers would pay less for rides and drivers could find customers more quickly.
Camp and Kalanick had unknowingly just fathered one of the first crowdsourcing ideas, one where taxi services are crowdsourced to a wider range of riders and drivers, not just licensed taxi drivers and customers on the street. Their first prototype revolved around splitting the cost of a Mercedes and a garage, as well as creating a mobile application called Ubercab.
Three employees of the new company tested out Camp’s and Kalanick’s idea by driving through New York City to deliver customers found from the application to their destinations quickly and for less money than normal means. The test proved successful and Uber first went live in San Francisco in the summer of 2010. Despite legal issues, Uber became wildly successful and has expanded into 58 countries. This fascinating company will undoubtedly continue to innovate to make ride-sharing more cost-effective and exciting.
Just as Uber disrupted the unimaginative and expensive world of taxi services, Reflik has made the disruption of the traditional world of recruiting one of its primary goals. A foremost cause of Uber is to increase efficiency, which it accomplishes for both the driver and customer. The driver has the ability to create their own schedule and use the car of their choosing, not just a mandatory yellow cab.
The customer has the ability to use their mobile phone to quickly hail a private car instead of waiting in the street for a taxi to come around the corner. In the same manner, Reflik increases the efficiency of the recruiting industry by directly connecting employers with third party recruiters and individuals to fill positions more quickly with better candidates. The slow moving recruiting industry of the past has experienced small improvements from online job boards but nothing can beat the speed of a referral-driven platform.
Taxi services can also be incredibly expensive while Uber’s overall cost is usually lower than the cost of a taxi. In the same way, traditional recruiting methods can cost up to 20% of the hire’s salary, while a typical hire with Reflik’s crowdsourced recruiting can be accomplished with a referral reward of only $5000!
Reflik replaces the need for typical recruiting methods by exposing open positions to third party recruiters and individuals who can then refer their qualified social and professional contacts to those positions at no cost to the employer. If the employer finds a perfect hire then a referral reward is paid to the referring party. Ultimately, Reflik drives more hires for less money than traditional recruiting avenues just as Uber gets passengers to their destinations more efficiently than traditional taxi cabs.
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