Hellohive is tackling hiring discrimination as extra equitable hiring firms emerge

Resume and recruitment platform Hellohive seeks to assist eradicate hiring bias by making a digital neighborhood that features employers and people searching for a brand new position.

The corporate is a part of an increasing number of resume and skill apps which are making an attempt to fight discrimination within the hiring course of. Hellohive provides candidates from underrepresented or socially marginalized backgrounds the alternatives to attach with employers they may have in any other case not had an opportunity to satisfy. It additionally provides employers the chance to have a look at candidates for expertise past the place they went to high school or the place they as soon as labored, permitting for a extra holistic strategy to hiring that may in flip diversify a workforce.

Hellohive hosts digital networking packages between firms and candidates on the app, with purchasers together with Goldman Sachs, American Categorical, and Morgan Stanley. The corporate introduced on Thursday a $3.4 million Sequence A spherical, led by the Tisch Household, to assist it obtain its mission.

Byron Slosar, who based the corporate in 2019, mentioned he created the app after a yr in undergraduate profession companies and recruiting. “I saw an opportunity for technology to employ candidates from all diverse backgrounds and experiences with an equitable opportunity to find success,” he advised TechCrunch, including that profession success shouldn’t be outlined by who you recognize or the place you go to high school. “We are committed to providing the same shot at success for anyone who’s willing to put in the work.”

Instance of what a candidate’s profile appears like on the Hellohive app. Picture Credit: Hellohive

He known as fundraising “always challenging” however took the chance to satisfy new folks and kind new connections.

Hellohive’s holistic strategy to hiring is essential proper now particularly, as firms have been shifting away from DEI commitments.

The app gives teaching companies to job candidates on formatting a resume that may appeal to employers to the platform. Candidates additionally full a course mannequin that prepares them for the job recruitment course of. They then categorical curiosity in an employer on the app, and the hiring course of formally kicks off.

“Hive’s technology unlocks a unique level of connectivity and understanding among all participants in the recruitment conversation and not only modernizes but humanizes the recruitment process for all involved,” mentioned Dan Levin, who works with Tom Tisch at his household workplace.

The Pearl Fund and angel buyers Ann Tenenbaum, Jeff Altman, and Rober Bell Wilkins additionally participated within the spherical.

Slosar mentioned this newest spherical of funding shall be used to broaden the chief workforce, improve Hellohive’s present expertise, and attain new potential purchasers. The corporate has raised $9 million thus far in funding.

“I’m excited to see the impact that an all-inclusive, ever-evolving, and self-identified approach to diversity will have on the world,” Slosar mentioned.