Pockethunt will End Your Job Hunt
By: Daniel Hyunwoo Lee
Tags: Internships, Application, Work Experience, Employment, Recruitment

Swipe, chat, and connect. Pockethunt is an app that will end your job hunt.

“Your future career connections from your pocket.”

Pockethunt is a social recruitment chat app for talent in tech, design, and marketing. They say that they aim for the “hidden job market”, fostering connections between the talented and employers wishing to hire them. This article provides information on how to use this app, answers some of the potential questions readers and users might have, and gives the link to Pockethunt’s company LinkedIn page.

1. Swipe. Swipe and explore your career posters through your personalized poster-feed, created by employers. Posters are simple, to-the-point ice-breakers for starting chats matched for you.

2. Chat. Start an anonymous chat with any employer or wait for them to reach out to you. Stay anonymous, or don’t. The best is on your way.

3. Connect. You can exchange ‘contact cards’ with employers at any time in the chat. It’s about creating personal connections for the future.

Here is an Q&A section about the potential questions you might have about this platform.

Q: What do you mean by a social recruitment chat app? What makes it different from other recruiting platforms?

A: By social, they mean that they offer a platform feed of personalized posters. No lengthy job ads, heavy recruitment processes or formal interview-like conversations. They want their users to be able to chat and connect in a modern way without formal barriers. Person to person.

Q: What do you mean by the hidden job market?

A: When they designed Pockethunt, they included elements from social apps and real-life networking. They realized that many of the best opportunities people come across in their careers are not from applying to job ads and other traditional methods, but through their networks of personal and professional contacts — the hidden job market . Their new app operates on the same dynamic, helping talented individuals to find jobs with the help of social connection.

Q: What are the “posters” in my feed?

A: Posters, which resemble social media posts, are created by employers to initiate private chats with talents. They are like conversational icebreakers. Pockethunt has been designed and developed in Finland, so they know a thing or two about the need for icebreakers.

Q: How can I opt-out from being matched or contacted by employers?

A: Just go to your settings by tapping ‘My Pocket’ in the upper menu, and select ‘Settings’, ‘Account’ and ‘Deactivate profile’. You can change it back any time you like.

Q: Why can’t I post a full-length job advertisement in Pockethunt?

A: This is at the core of service. It wouldn’t be in the best interests of the community, as Pockethunt is a quick, casual and more social way of finding new career connections and talent! Their matching system takes care of what job ads were meant to do before.

Q: Why is Pockethunt free of charge for employers too?

A: They are growing a completely new community and way of recruiting, so having a low threshold to signing up helps us get new users to try out their service . But yes, in order to keep the lights on in their office, they will be creating paid premium memberships with additional cool features in the near future.

Lastly, here is the company LinkedIn page for Pockethunt: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pockethunt/

(Content from: https://pockethunt.com/)