Google Help You Find Jobs with Google Hire

The online search giant Google will launch Google Hire, a service that allows companies to post job listings as well as accept and manage applications. Employers will be able to place ads for job listings, which job-seekers will then be able to apply for.

Hire is still under development and is targeted at customers of its Cloud-based G Suite productivity tools like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. The company has not officially announced the launch of this service yet, but the home page of Google Hire is live for everyone to see. The sign in is not yet allowed, and will be available only after the serviced is launched officially. The home page suggests both employers and employees can sign up for the service using their Google account

The fact that the services require individuals to sign in using their Google account had raised concerns that recruiters will be able to see an applicant’s entire search history. But it was clarified by a Google spokesperson that only information that a candidate voluntarily shares would be passed to a prospective employer as part of their online application. No private information will be shared.

The services are designed to let employers manage their hiring process more effectively where business owners will be able to post listings for a number of roles through Google service, along with tracking applicants for those role through G-Suite.

This webpage on Google Hire site shows what job listings could look like on the service, although we can’t be sure if this is the final design. Clicking on a job shows a description of the role, followed by a series of input boxes for users to state their name along with email address, with options to upload a cover letter and resume.

With the layout and structure of the website simpler than other recruitment platforms, it is suspected that the simplification aspect will set the platform apart from its competitors like LinkedIn and Indeed.

There are talks that Google is trying to make the recruitment for SMEs easier by tracking their applicants. There are also suspects that Hire will be a free or low-cost service for small clients. It might have a simple interface as seen, where users might just long in and start to use.

IIT Delhi alumni working to solve employability problem in the country

Aishwarya Chaturvedi and Indrajeet Roy, alumni of IIT Delhi have created SkillWill to improve the employability of our country’s graduates. SkillWill is a self-assessment platform for students created by ANTZ AGE Technologies. Based out of Delhi, the company helps students understand their employability before they start applying to companies.

Indrajeet has more than 5 years of experience in Indian education industry. He has led the research in the field of Human Resources, Psychometric and Industrial Engineering. The team came up with the idea of SkillWill when Aishwarya realized that he had 4 interviews in a week during his placement semester. “I found it difficult to prioritize my preparations for these companies. They were all from different fields,” he says. “Indrajeet had gone through the same problem,” he added. They sat together with Abhay Chaturvedi (Angel Investor) and made a blueprint of the solution. That’s how they came up with Assessment for Graduate Employability (AGE), their company’s proprietary assessment product.

“We match you to jobs from 60 different job sectors. We do this after assessing you for 22 employability skills and matching you to the right job, specific to your core area. We did this because we didn't see multiple examinations, that screen you for the job and rejects you without a feedback, bringing in any value. A single preparatory exam goes a long way to solve this conundrum.” says Indrajeet.

So how is SkillWill different from its competitors?

• SkillWill conducts initial aptitude tests for students and makes them understand employability. They connect students, trainers and companies on skills. Companies tell them how important certain skills are, trainers tell how much can they improve each of these skills in the students and students can assess how good they are at those skills.


• A comprehensive test of analytical, communicative, technical and interpersonal abilities figures out the students' way forward and they only recommend jobs that match to students’ profile obtained as above. The other products in the market rarely take interpersonal skills of students into account, if any.


• SkillWill is designed to facilitate student’s job search thoroughly following this five step process:
  
  
  
  
  
  1. Know what companies need – The team quantifies what the jobs are looking for and the respective weights of each skill for every job.
  
  
  2. Know yourself – SkillWill assessment profiles students on 24 employability skills collected from the Kent University and FICCI’s skills framework.
  
  
  3. Find the gap – Students know quantitatively their largest gaps, as well as the strongest skills. They can model their resume, cover letters and interview preparation accordingly.
  
  
  4. Fill the gap – Based on the person’s skills profile, the SkillWill team connects him to the right trainers and trainings helping him prepare well for the job. In addition, SkillWill makes available excellent tools, worldwide that help student prepare better.
  
  
  5. Hit the target – In the jobs that student is most employable, SkillWill team sends him job openings collected from recruiters, off campus portals and direct companies.
  
  
  
  
  

This team of 5 employees with 15 interns from IIT’s use an analytical framework which unites all the students, trainers and recruiters strictly around employability skills. The product is built on PHP Yii framework. They plan to expand to a team of 50 people soon. “We are looking to build a pan-India presence over the next 6 months, assessing 1,00,000 students from cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Chandigarh and Jaipur,” says Indrajeet.

The company is part bootstrapped by its founders, Indrajeet and Aishwarya. The company has its angels in form of Abhay Chaturvedi and Prabhat Chaturvedi. "We are at a seed stage and working with $250k of funds over the next 6 months," they added. As a message for future entrepreneurs, Aishwarya says, "If your gut says no, trust your intuition. But if your gut says 'yes, but I'm a little scared', feel the fear and do it anyway."

SkillWill is a venture focused on achieving scale and growing fast. The team is always on its toes, be it product development or product marketing. We are also focused on providing the best customer experience around the product (and the services). The team is excited and hungry for more.

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