So we kind of understood that the job board is the dying breed…and we need to be part of that, you know, community building process.
Source - Nemanja’s conversation with Kashyap Deorah and Gaurav Deshpande for the leader’s journey meeting for the Top 50 Leaders nomination, March, 2024
Nemanja Stefanovic is not only the CEO and co-founder of HireApp, but he is also a product enthusiast. He builds products that make people’s lives easier, with a focus on staffing.
More than a decade ago, he identified an opportunity to address the rising need for job flexibility. Despite the advancements in technology empowering knowledge workers to explore various career paths, he recognized a significant portion of the workforce wasn't yet benefiting from these innovations
In industries such as construction, warehousing, and hospitality, there were evident gaps. Despite the demand for workers in these sectors, companies found it challenging to fill positions. While individuals were open to working, they preferred non-traditional arrangements. Nemanja noticed a clear mismatch: workers sought flexible schedules, while companies wanted to fill roles without providing this flexibility.
HireApp acted as the bridge of transparency connecting these two parties. Starting with the Miami market, HireApp identified companies willing to embrace flexible arrangements. It provided them with access to a pool of qualified workers, complete with transparent scheduling guidelines and relevant work experience.
Now hospitality brands such as the Four Seasons, Fontainebleau, and Faena utilize the platform's convenience and efficiency to enhance their staff roster.
Freedom and Flexibility to Skill up
For some workers, full-time work can be limiting. Workers with full-time schedules can get stuck in roles that don’t allow them to pursue other lines of employment that might be advantageous to their careers. With HireApp, workers can find shifts in other career paths that might be a better fit. This freedom and flexibility to augment one’s skill and experience is a guiding principle of HireApp.
Now, they can actually choose, hey, maybe, I am a line cook, but maybe I wanna work in a warehouse, maybe that's something that I feel more comfortable in that environment than, in a kitchen and that's completely okay. That's something that now they can actually experiment and try out, during one, two, or maybe even hundreds of shifts – something that before they couldn't do. It wasn't flexible. If they get hired there, they have to work there.”
Source - Nemanja’s conversation with Kashyap Deorah and Gaurav Deshpande for the leader’s journey meeting for the Top 50 Leaders nomination, March, 2024
HireApp’s vision is to use technology to enable people to utilize their skills to the fullest extent and even improve. By building a pool of qualified workers with this mindset, they have been able to create a community of pros (their internal term for workers on the platform) and business customers whose perspective aligns with the values of the platform.
If there is any question as to whether this vision has been validated, the proof is in the numbers. In the short years since Hire App’s founding, they have 100,000 signed-up users on the platform and facilitated over 150,000 shifts. Workers have affirmed the HireApp approach by continuing to indicate their interest in pursuing shifts available in the marketplace.