by Riphyak on 7/7/21, 2:49 PM with 3 comments
by Riphyak on 7/7/21, 3:05 PM
Yura here - I'm the co-founder of Greenlight. Greenlight is the new kind of job platform - where companies discover 'hidden' engineering candidates across multiple geographies. 'Hidden' means these engineers are not actively applying for vacancies, but at the same time are open to new remote opportunities.
Traditional job portal model emerged 20+ years ago, when 99% of job opportunities were inside your zip code and employers were the ones setting the rules. As a result, most job portals are limited to their local market and rely on the "candidates apply to vacancy" paradigm.
However the reality is: both of these things have changed. The market for software engineers is one example: demand exceeds supply and now it looks like most of us prefer the flexibility of remote work.
Greenlight is an attempt to reflect this new reality: here companies apply to interview engineers, not vice versa. And this happens across multiple geographies.
Also, for the founders this is personal. Both of us are immigrants to the United States. We both went through a 3-year long visa marathon, spending hours of each week struggling with complex bureaucracies in order to be able to move our families to the US. The process was long, confusing, costly, and stressful.
We also previously built a successful business in outsourcing - an industry whose very existence is made possible by the striking differences in what people with the same skills are paid for the same work, depending only on where they were born.
One of the greatest achievements of the Internet era is that it helped level the playing field for those who weren't been born into privilege - no matter social class, wealth, or nationality. We believe this is just the beginning of what actually can be achieved - and that geographic work permissions are a barrier that can be torn down easier and faster than others.
With Greenlight, we want to help build a world without borders, a world where every human being has equal access to career opportunities - no matter where she or he was born. In our world, access to work is globalized: every company has a portion of its workforce working remotely from other geographies, and every job is global by default.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
by slap_shot on 7/7/21, 4:31 PM
If you look at other platforms, you get to see the resume to determine if the candidate is a good first before messaging them.