This app calls itself the Tinder for jobs
What if a right swipe was all that stood between you and your dream career?
That’s the premise of Switch, a discreet iOS mobile app dubbed the “Tinder for jobs.”
Switch allows users to set up a profile and share their resume. The platform then creates a default, anonymized profile, which shows limited information about the user and is hidden from all companies listed on his or her resume. Candidates’ complete profiles are also withheld from internal HR professionals and hiring managers until both parties swipe right and connect.
The mobile app features a built-in chat function and also connects parties via email.
In addition, job seekers receive a daily, individualized log of up to 21 job recommendations based on related industries, job function and target salary, according to Switch CEO Yarden Tadmor.
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Tadmor, who has helped start and grow six startup companies in New York and San Francisco over the past 15 years, says he was inspired to launch Switch due to the lack of digital evolution in employment sites.
“I personally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on recruiting firms and hunters and saw it as an opportunity to automate that software and provide consumers with a mobile-first solution,” he says.
Tadmor says he hopes the mobile app will dispel the frustration and uncertainty that comes with submitting applications through impersonal portals.
“It’s a very slow process… sort of like a black hole,” he says. “Part of what we’re trying to do is offer a lot of transparency.”
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According to Tadmor, there are currently more than 100,000 job seekers on the platform.
He also says that the site hosts recruitment personnel from more than 1,000 companies – chief among them, Amazon, Facebook, eBay and Walmart – with most jobs being technical positions. He says the site is gradually expanding beyond tech roles to include retail, sales and finance.
The app is geared toward positions in Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco and Austin, Texas, but is projected to branch out.
“We’re still improving our product and growing the scale,” Tadmore says.
Jaleesa Jones is a summer 2015 USA TODAY College intern and a recent alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This story originally appeared on the USA TODAY College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.