Between endlessly scrolling job boards and the puzzling rise of faux applicants using AI to use en masse, job searching has quickly turn into some of the confusing experiences the web has to supply. Listings are published and republished on various platforms when applications go unanswered, making a spam-like flood of activity on each sites.
“If you post a job on LinkedIn, 1,000 people could apply for that job throughout the first six hours,” says Matt Wilson, a London-based serial entrepreneur. “Some firms don’t even screen candidates who apply for these positions since the signal-to-noise ratio may be very, very low.”
Wilson's latest solution is Jack & Jilla brand new platform that uses conversational AI to reinvent the recruiting process from the bottom up. The company today announced $20 million in seed funding led by EU investor Creandum, however it was hardly a canopy. The service is already live in London, where the outfit has almost 50,000 users – and Wilson wants to make use of the influx of money to drive expansion within the US and take Jack & Jill to latest levels.
“Since LinkedIn and Indeed got here out 20 years ago, the best way people find jobs hasn’t modified much,” says Wilson. He reckons now is perhaps the time to shake things up, as AI chatbots are transforming workplaces all over the world.
As the name suggests, Jack & Jill is a two-part platform. The “Jack” side of the platform takes care of the candidate side, offering users a 20-minute AI-powered profile interview before providing them with a curated list of roles from online databases. From there, Jack could be used for mock interviews or more comprehensive skilled coaching. “Jill” works with employers, creates a profile of a particular role and promotes candidates who match the necessities. Like LinkedIn, a part of the goal is for each employees and hiring managers to keep up an lively presence of their respective apps, and for the app to drag players away from the sidelines when essential. The service requires a normal commission for every successful hire, and because the scope of the platform grows, Wilson hopes to make Jack & Jill indispensable for each parties.
This may sound like a normal recruiting system with some AI, but Wilson believes conversational chatbots are more necessary than a straightforward matching algorithm. By constructing the method around chatbot interviews, he believes he has found a scalable alternative to the limitless clutter of job ads and resumes, potentially reinventing the fundamental elements of the trendy hiring process.
The use of AI systems to conduct initial interviews is becoming increasingly common in lots of parts of the world – particularly in China, where many multinational firms have done so used the practice for local hiring. While a surprise interview with an AI hiring manager could appear strange, Wilson hopes the Jack & Jill approach will result in greater intelligence in job placement overall.
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“I feel the best way we’re assigned to the businesses we work for and vice versa is just extremely inefficient,” Wilson says. “There are billions of individuals on the market who could find higher jobs for them. And that's a mission value working on.”
