【美国】员工招募初创企业SeekOut宣布获得600万美元的A轮融资资金，用于加速人工智能技术人才和多样性的招聘
SeekOut近日宣布获得由Madrona Venture Group牵头的600万美元A轮融资资金，现有投资者梅菲尔德也参与其中。
对于我们来说，SeekOut一直是一个非常有效的工具，尤其是在我们在一个竞争极其激烈的市场中寻找难以找到的合格工程人才的时候。SeekOut的客户支持团队总是在那里为任何困难的采购任务提供帮助
科技人才很难找到，因为开发人员、工程师和科学家不会费心在LinkedIn等网站上更新个人资料。更糟糕的是，这些网站提供的候选人的技能和能力非常狭隘的观点。那些把自己限制在传统人才库中的招聘人员，会错失数以百万计的高素质、未被发掘的候选人。SeekOut通过搜索公共数据、使用自然语言(NLP)和机器学习(ML)技术来了解每个候选人的专业知识，并为每个潜在员工构建一个完整的360度视图，从而显著扩大了可用的人才库。
上图：SEEKOUT负责人在美国HRTECH大会UNLEASH上发表演讲，图源：HRTechChina
SeekOut的AI搜索引擎为招聘人员提供了工具，帮助他们在人才库中找到最合适的人选。通过自动化候选人搜索和了解过去的招聘模式，SeekOut使每位招聘人员都成为搜索专家，并简化了锁定合适候选人的任务。
“作为一名风险投资家，我每天都能看到团队在招聘最优秀的人才来实现他们的愿景时所面临的挑战。在众多对人力资源技术的投资中，SeekOut解决方案脱颖而出，为各行各业的每一家公司提供了关键的需求。”“随着每家公司都在经历数字化转型，对技术人才的需求正在实现跳跃式增长。SeekOut团队深刻理解这些挑战，并拥有解决这些挑战的专业知识和动力。我跟随这家公司已经有几年了，他们对客户的关注、创新技术和增长给我留下了深刻的印象。作为资金的一部分，S. Somasegar将加入SeekOut董事会。
领先的企业明白，多样化的团队驱动着最大的商业价值。除了根据特定的工作要求来寻找候选人，SeekOut还能让企业用最优秀的多样性过滤器和解决方案来填补他们的人才漏斗，让高素质的多样化候选人加入其中，以减少无意识的偏见。
“在ExtraHop，我们相信，最好的产品、服务和公司是由强大的团队构建的，这些团队包括各种背景、观点、想法和经验。为了支持我们的多元化招聘目标，我们在SeekOut上进行了早期投资，并决定进行试点。在最初的30天里，SeekOut帮助我的团队在竞争异常激烈的西雅图市场寻找并雇佣了一名女性工程经理。这是一个全垒打，我们现在已经在我们的团队中部署了探员，”ExtraHop招聘经理贝丝·凯斯特-华纳说。
SeekOut是由微软首席执行官兼前杰出科学家古普塔(Anoop Gupta)和必应搜索引擎前工程负责人、首席技术官阿拉文德•巴拉(Aravind Bala)共同创建的。作为工程领域的领导者，两家公司都面临着雇佣技术人才组建自己团队的严峻问题。
“人才的竞争从未像现在这样激烈。获胜的公司知道他们需要使用最先进的解决方案来找到最好的候选人。我们很高兴每天都能收到客户的反馈，他们告诉我们，有了SeekOut，他们能更快地找到更多合格的候选人。”“这笔资金将帮助我们进一步开发我们的解决方案，帮助企业找到最优秀的人才来实现他们的愿景和目标。”
“对我们来说，SeekOut一直是一个非常有效的工具，尤其是在我们在一个竞争极其激烈的市场中寻找难以找到的合格工程人才的时候。SeekOut的客户支持团队令人愉快，知识渊博，总是在那里为任何困难的采购任务提供帮助。”
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原文链接：SeekOut Announces $6 Million in Series A Funding to Accelerate AI-Powered Recruiting for Technical Talent and Diversity
美国招聘网站Phenom People获得600万美元A轮融资
Phenom People成立于，总部位于美国霍舍姆。
该公司为一个招聘网站平台，他们通过传统的指纹和IP来收集用户的信息并且智能的匹配用户和工作的相关度。
本次领投的公司是Sierra Ventures。
Phenom People, A Customizable Job Application Service, Raises $6M
It can seem at times that job application sites for companies are a black hole and impossible to navigate. That’s why Phenom People, a service that customizes company job search pages for individuals, wants to try to fix that experience.
The company, which said it raised $6 million in venture financing led by Sierra Ventures, basically keeps tabs on who is visiting a company’s application page — like what jobs they view and where they come in from — and builds custom job search pages for them. For example, if someone has viewed a couple of jobs for a marketing role, they might be shown other roles that they might not have thought of when they visit a second time.
“We collect [a lot of data] to understand candidate intent — why is this here, what is it looking for,” CEO Mahe Bayireddi said. “So every time they come back we give a unique experience based on previous behavior, intent and persona. It’s all so we can give them a unique employment value proposition based on what they’re looking for.”
Recruiters also use the service to find potential recruits that might be good fits, which isn’t necessarily obvious if recruiters are just paying attention to the applications coming in. If a potential recruit is coming back three or four times and browsing the site, it may show that they are more interested in the job than someone just simply applying for jobs point-blank, Bayireddi said.
Phenom People uses traditional fingerprinting and IP tools in order to understand who that person is and collect data on them. It then builds an interest graph of sorts for that person, customizing the page for a company’s application site on the spot.
Part of the justification for a service like this to exist, Bayireddi said, is that while there are other services for searching jobs like LinkedIn, many inevitably end up back on the company’s home job search page. They might not actually apply for a job there, but might be coming back to the site regularly from other kinds of job search services, which offers additional data.
“The person can come from Google, look for a job, leave, and after 15 minutes come in from LinkedIn, and then leave, and then come in from Indeed,” he said. “People think it’s just from Indeed, but no, it’s multiple steps. They might even visit GlassDoor. Every track is basically managed by us to understand where they are coming from.”
So how is this different from a service like Greenhouse, or other job application services? Those services are simply backend systems that serve as a supply chain of sorts for recruiters, Bayireddi said. That, of course, doesn’t mean that they will always be that — if the market for something like this is as large as Bayireddi believes, it’s certainly in the realm of possibility that a company like other recruiting startups would begin doing something similar. And of course, there are ways to apply directly through LinkedIn, which might render a service like this moot.
This is Bayireddi’s first round of financing, but the company has been around for around four years, teaching him to basically run a lean an operation as a company can get. And that’s part of the reason the startup is going to remain in Philadelphia, as well, he said.
“That’s part of the unique nature of how we did it,” he said. “We primarily lean toward less costs, that’s a good attribution being in Philadelphia. We have no intention to move to Silicon Valley. Some of the funds asked us if you can move to Silicon Valley, our thought process is, ‘hey, we want to sit here because we want to build a community around here,’ and that’s important.”
来源：techcrunch.com
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