HolaStaff: Mexico's "social network" that helps the operating industry find talent

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

HolaStaff generates a 'match' between companies and candidates from the operating sector to help them save time, find better options and avoid the stress of the search.

To reduce recruitment time and facilitate the process of finding work for thousands of candidates in the operational sector, such as waiters, security guards or telephone operators, the app works as a social network that generates a 'match' between companies and workers.

In an interview for El Financiero, Carlos Rendón, General Manager of HolaStaff, said that the platform was born out of the need to bring technology to these profiles and eliminate the high turnover of personnel.

For example, currently the labor rotation in the security guards sector is around 80 percent per year, according to the Mexican Association of Private Security Companies.

"There are platforms such as LinkedIn, in which millions of vacancies are published and millions of people with executive profiles are registered. But for a security guard, a waiter, or jobs that are the base of the pyramid, it is much more complicated," he said in an interview.

The HolaStaff app was awarded in the framework of Intercon - The Internet Conference - which took place from June 18 to 20 in Las Vegas. The event recognized 50 companies this year that, through the internet, are changing the image of companies while boosting the global economy.

The group started in 2014 as an aggregator and currently more than a thousand companies publish their positions in HolaStaff - it already has 1,700 vacancies in all the states of the Republic.

AVOID SPENDING HOURS SEARCHING FOR WORK

The app has a system of geolocation of vacancies to prevent a candidate from applying for a job far from their location or whose route is complicated.

Currently the firm has around five thousand registered people and 1,000 companies with 1,700 published vacancies.

Upon entering, the candidate generates a profile like that of a social network: he places his name, his data, a profile picture, and can share videos and content about his work and achievements.

"We try to keep it very simple, the minimum necessary for a company to filter them. But the important thing is to generate that community and that the worker can boast 'I'm the best server in this restaurant', as it happens on LinkedIn," said Rendón.

Another benefit is to facilitate the search for the candidate. "Many times this type of worker has to go outside to walk. Imagine going out to deliver your CV with a 'hellish solace', and here you will see those jobs that are not announced in the windows," said the director of the firm.

A constant for those looking for a job is the uncertainty that your CV will reach the right hands and not just stay in the security booth.

"You reduce the stress in the search. When you distribute your CV, you do not know if it happened from the company booth, if it was seen by Human Resources, if after seeing it you were discarded, and you are hoping months later without knowing what happened."

The HolaStaff platform provides a tracking of the application of the vacancy and notifies the user when his CV was received, if he becomes a finalist to acquire the job or if he is rejected.

MUTUAL BENEFITS

For both profiles, recruiter and candidate, this platform seeks to become a significant time saver.

"For example, you quote the candidate, 'come to the interview', and since he arrives you tell him that the work is by commission and he is required to work on Sundays, and then he says: 'then no'. There both lost time, "he said.

To avoid this, once a candidate is a finalist, a chat between recruiter and applicant is enabled to give him details of the job and specify or dismiss an interview instantaneously.

The platform is now available for both mobile and PC, but is in a reengineering stage to define which profiles will be on the platform and which ones will be eliminated.

Carlos Rendón announced that there will be between 25 and 30 profiles, as a waiter, security guard, telephone operator, among others, which will remain available.

Currently in the app are vacant vacancies of companies such as Alsea, Sears, Oxxo among others. But to say of Carlos Rendón, it is sought that the small and medium companies of the country join the platform to generate greater options.

"We also want to have the taquería on the corner, the restaurant - those are also the jobs that these people are looking for."

The platform is free for candidates and recruiters, although in the case of companies seeking candidates, a method of monetization that is not yet defined will be added soon.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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