“TALENTLAYER” PROJECT
Did you know that, according to recent studies, there is widespread dissatisfaction with job search platforms?
Despite the general use of these platforms, different studies highlight that many European companies claim to need help finding the right talent for the positions they offer.
Are you concerned about finding the best talent for your business?
If so, you can’t miss this interview, where we will learn more about TalentLayer, a beneficiary of NGI Search’s first Open Call.
Can you introduce yourself and your project?
My name is Kirsten Pomales, serving as the Executive Lead of TalentLayer. For the past four years, I’ve been full-time in the blockchain space – initially working on enterprise consortium blockchain projects and governance research and later founding startups in the infra space. Before that, I had a few traditional marketplace startups, was a freelance software developer, and had a prior life in political coalition building.
I’m Romain Martin – the Technical Lead of TalentLayer. I’ve worked for years in engineering leadership at a sports data technology startup, where I built out our platform and team. I’ve worked on blockchain development for four years alongside this. I spent over ten years as a freelancer and have hired many workers.
TalentLayer is the culmination of our experiences as freelancers, hirers, and marketplace builders. TalentLayer aims to solve the most significant hiring inefficiency: syllogization and market fragmentation.
Today, most of us find work and hire on platforms. These platforms each represent a silo of workers and job posts, causing severe market inefficiencies and the need to duplicate profiles and posts across many platforms.
TalentLayer provides a universal low-level infrastructure for hiring platforms to build on top of – one that enables pooling liquidity for hirers and workers and allows hirers and workers on other platforms to conduct business with one another. We’re building something fundamentally different from all the existing hiring technologies.
By creating one massive network effect for hiring, we’re working to bring unprecedented efficiency to the hiring process.
What have you achieved with your idea thanks to the NGI Search project?
NGI has an excellent network of passionate builders with fundamental values aligned with building in a true open-source fashion. Even though we’re still early in our program, we’ve already connected with incredible mentors with solid experience in data searchability and open-source development, specifically in the hiring sector!
We’ve already learned about many new channels for publicizing our work, growing our team, and accessing new funding through these mentors. Thank you, NGI Search!
