GradLeaders and The Whether Partner to Launch First Social Network to Automatically Connect Students’ Skills and Values to Best-Fit Jobs
Summary
The app gauges how students’ interactions with career content correlates with their professional values, competencies, soft skills and interests, all while making them feel as if they’re simply playing on their phone.“We’re thrilled to collaboratively offer university recruiters and local employers a better way to nurture job-seeking students at their core schools while delivering a dedicated mobile app and social network for career discovery,” says GradLeaders CEO, Jack Gainer.In talking with several of our current customers, they’re most compelled by its intuitive social media-like design and ‘thumbable’ experience that makes it easy for students to discover best-fit careers based on more than hard skills and qualifications.Motley plans to grow the solution to solve for these challenges using a $775,000 grant he received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to personalize career pathways for students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities.Large companies such as Express Scripts, Edward Jones, Monsanto, and Wells Fargo are currently using the platform to identify diverse candidates to recruit to the St. Louis region for internships and full-time jobs.