求职应用 Apploi 融资 700 万美元
申请工作似乎很容易：走进一家商店，问店员要一张工作申请表，填好然后等电话就是了。但除了更漂亮的字迹外，你怎么才能从一众申请者中脱颖而出呢？通过用Apploi。
Apploi 首席执行官亚当·路易斯（Adam Lewis）创办这家公司是为了让服务行业工人在工作面试中展现自己最好的一面。Apploi 被设计为工作申请的中枢系统，可以帮助工作申请者分享有关自己个性和技能的视频，且已经帮助数百人在 H&M、优衣库和 J. Crew 等公司找到工作。
路易斯表示道：“在我经营上一家公司时，一家大餐厅请我检查他们的招聘流程，看我之前的服务是否可以作为他们的简历工具。他们用简历来招聘客服小时工的方式让我震惊不已。”
“我秘密地在纽约申请了数个服务和支持岗位，并反复看到同一件事：店铺外排着长龙，公司关闭营业商店来举办招聘活动，求职者们排成一队，填写很长的表格，只是为了与副经理的三分钟面试。要么公司就是让求职者们在电脑上做类似的事情来申请工作。”
Apploi 提供基于移动和浏览器的申请流程，还在商场和繁忙地段安放设备，让雇主们可以抓住过往人流。用户可以提交多份申请，甚至可以拍摄短视频来展示自己的技能。
路易斯称：“我们重新思考了工作申请，重心也不是放在简历上。整个过程要更具互动性，申请人可以回答公司以多种格式设置的问题，并提供公司作出合理决定所需的数据。通常来说，这些工作的招聘周期要少于 24 小时，性格、专心、激情和空余时间在很多工作的招聘中要比考试成绩更重要。”
Apploi 已获得 740 万美元的 A 轮融资。该公司希望扩大业务范围，部署更多设备，获得更多雇主客户。Apploi 的网站 已经上线 ，在一个月内服务了 36 个州的 8 万多名求职者。预计到 2015 年夏，Apploi 将覆盖全美 50 个州。他们没有透露是否正在招聘，不过你大可提交一份申请哦。
Apploi, A Job Hunting App, Raises Over $7 Million In Series A
Applying to jobs seems easy: you roll into a shop, fill out an application, and wait for a call. But aside from nicer handwriting, how do you stand out from the crowd of applicants? You use Apploi.
Apploi’s CEO, Adam Lewis, launched the company to allow service industry workers put their best foot forward in job interviews. Designed as a sort of central system for applications as well as a way to share videos of your personality and skills, it’s already helping hundreds of folks find work at H&M, Uniqlo, and J. Crew, among others.
“When I was running my previous company I was asked by a large restaurant company to review their recruiting processes and see if my previous service would be a useful resume tool for them. I was shocked as to how they were using resumes to recruit hourly customer service staff,” said Lewis.
“I went undercover in NYC and applied to several service and support jobs. I repeatedly saw the same thing — long lines outside stores, companies shutting off revenue generating space to hold hiring events, where jobseekers (often customers too) were waiting in line filling out long forms before a three minute interview with the assisitant manager. Otherwise companies were sending these jobseekers back to computers to apply in a similar way as they would for a corporate position.”
The company offers a mobile and browserbased application process and also sets up hiring kiosks in malls and busy areas where multiple employers can grab walking traffic. Users can submit multiple applications and even show off their skills by shooting short videos.
“We rethought the job application and we’re not focussed on the resume as the currency of application. It’s more interactive (candidates can answer questions that are set by companies in multiple formats) and provide companies with the data that they need to make informed decisions — often hiring cycles for these jobs are less than 24 hours, and personality, commitment, passion and timeavailability are much more important for many of these jobs than exam results,” said Lewis.
The company raised $7,407,800 in Series A with Andrew Heyer, CEO of Mistral Equity Partners, Simon Jacobs, former owner of Hale and Hearty, among others. Tony Wang, president of Three-W International, and Heyer will join the Board.
The company hopes to expand its reach and bring more kiosks and employers online. The site is humming along right now and they’ve served over 80,000 job seekers a month in 36 states. They expect to be in all 50 states by Summer 2015. No word if they’re hiring, but feel free to submit an application.
来源：techcrunch
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