We just got word that Eventbrite (click here to see their public profile and watch one of the funniest recruiting videos ever!) made their second hire using Whitetruffle. A big congratulations to them and Parris Khachi!
Marlon, a member of Eventbrite’s recruiting team, loves using Whitetruffle and considers it a great pipeline for qualified candidates. Eventbrite has been selected as one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business times for two years running!
Interested in becoming their newest Briteling? See if you’re a match:
Our two newest hires: Lucas and Micah. Both joined Whitetruffle through some of our social media outreach. Both were matched with and talked to many companies, in addition to ours, before deciding we were the right fit for them. We appreciate the perspective they bring, having been active, enthusiastic users before working on the product. Here’s a pic of Micah, Smarty the Pig, and Masami, our VP of Marketing, hanging out at Micah’s first quarterly meeting after joining Whitetruffle: We are often asked if hires are made using Whitetruffle. The answer is an emphatic yes. In addition to the long list of companies we could mention – we’ve personally been able to find all the people we needed when we needed them. Have you tried Whitetruffle yet?
“I went on Whitetruffle specifically to look for a cool job at a US startup because I wanted to move to the Bay Area. Just wanted to let you know that I got hired by Moovweb, and all thanks to Whitetruffle. You beat all the stinking recruiters (in-house or outsourced)! If I ever need a job again I’ll come back to you guys.” Mateusz Byczkowski, Moovweb “All the recruiting emails I ever received via different websites seemed to be the generic mass emails spammed out to any and every engineer whose email address was somehow gifted/sold/leaked/auctioned to a recruiter and I was fed up of those. Then I was introduced to Whitetruffle by a friend and it is the only way I’d job hunt ever again. I was matched with companies that I would really like to work for and had a background applicable to. Wish dating websites could learn from Whitetruffle. Soon enough, I was contacted, interviewed and hired by Room 77. It’s been a few weeks here and everything and everyone is awesome. Thanks Whitetruffle!” Whitetruffle ran into Bloodhound at a game developer’s party last Friday. They are so excited about Paul Kim, their newest engineer, starting this week. Congratulations Bloodhound and Paul Kim! I found my new job as the CTO of Delve News through Whitetruffle. It was Tom Weingarten – CTO, Delve When I decided I wanted to move to San Francisco from England, I thought the only option would be to get a job through people I already knew. Even though I should theoretically be a great hire, I thought the distance would mean I couldn’t find the right companies. I saw Whitetruffle and signed up, because it was easy and couldn’t do any harm. I didn’t expect the number of serious matches they sent me, and I’m really happy that I got an awesome job and will be moving soon! Alex Davies – Software Engineer, Asana Vanessa Wallis, a Computer Science graduate student from UC San Diego, became the newest engineer at Shoprunner only a month after joining Whitetruffle. She is excited about technology and brought that excitement with her to job search. Vanessa maintains a personal blog and wrote a fantastic entry from March 2012 about job search, continuing education, and how to make sure a company is a good match. These are all things we care deeply about, and Vanessa was kind enough to let us share her thoughts: “I would consider myself pretty well-versed in the job-applicationing process. It takes a lot of time. I’m not just looking for any job–I want a great fit. For each position I look at, I want to understand the business, the mission of the company. What services do they provide? What’s the value to the user/customer that sets them apart from their competitors–what is the most compelling aspect of their offerings? I try to figure that out so I can identify and espouse upon it in my cover letter. [Also] integral to your job-searching and applying process, which is certainly a waiting-game most of the time, work on gaining new skills or honing existing ones. *Always be getting better* is how I might put it. The hard part is how to balance the focus for that with the researching and applying parts. I have found that you just have to do it. The balance will figure itself out. When you’re not seeing progress on the getting-a-job-front, at least you’re seeing progress on the learning-new-stuff front. And that in itself helps build confidence for great things now, and great things to come. Now to address the title of this post: Living the Core Values. One of the more recent online applications for a company included some “creative thinking questions” after the standard form fare. I really enjoy it when I see something that makes a company stand out during this part of the process. In particular, the inclusion of these questions really shows (1) how important their core values are to them; (2) how important it is to find potential employees who also share them; and (3) inherit to the inclusion of the questions, they are demonstrating accountability to valuing and practicing said core values. Getting to answer these questions showed me that they appreciate and value self awareness, which is a very important aspect of my life. I feel confident that this company would be a good fit for me. The paraphrased application question follows, along with how I answered them. There was a text box for each core value: Open, Engaged, Innovative, and Accountable. “Our core values help us live our mission, to make [our company] a better place for our Customers to do business and our Colleagues to work. How are you living these values every day?” We are so excited for both Shoprunner and Vanessa – and glad that we could match someone who is clearly so passionate about her work with the right company! Whitetruffle’s matching process allowed me to connect with the companies that fit me best. Everything went very smoothly from the very beginning. It has truly been a great experience! Herbert Binteroe – Web Engineer, Eventbrite We released even more new features on Friday to make your experience even better: We surveyed our users to see what kinds of improvements they wanted to see. They told us they wanted to be able to choose the size of the companies they are matched with – and now you can! To select a preferred company size, go to your profile page, click “Edit Profile” and chose one of the three options here: We made a “Hired” button! Both companies and individual users can now let us know when they have made a hire/been hired even more easily than before! Lastly, we’re continually making adjustments to improve our matching algorithm. This week we made changes that will better target candidates who are more eager to meet companies and make a move. We’re also fine-tuning so we do an even better job of filtering through the edge-case matches and deciding which ones could be just the person you’re looking for.Dogfooding…
Hung Lee of wisemansay called us out on Twitter a couple days ago, wanting to know how our hiring was going. Whitetruffle is in the business of helping companies find tech talent, so when it was time for us to expand our team there was only one real option for us. Every company should eat their own dogfood. We had to prove that we could hire talented engineers using nothing more than what we had built ourselves. We are proud to say that every technical hire we have made since building Whitetruffle has come through Whitetruffle.
much more efficient than job hunting through other sites I’ve used, the
quality of connections is noticeably higher. I’m using it now to build up
my technical team, and I’m finding it to be just as useful from the hiring
side.
Living the Core Values
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