Enum

Enum was originally designed to solve the internal problem of managing applications and onboarding trainees, but it evolved.

In 2020, Semicolon (parent company) built an internal tool to help the admissions team screen and onboard individuals from a pool of about 10,000 applications for their software engineering training programme. This tool solved the problem significantly and Semicolon decided to scale this solution to other businesses. But first, the product team decided to validate this idea.

Problem

We figured that, unlike Semicolon, most businesses would require this service for recruitment. Even though it was very similar to sorting and filtering applications, the rules for recruitment were quite different.

Since we wanted to build an end-to-end solution for major parties involved in recruitment, we focused on two user groups:

1. Applicants (or Job Seekers)

2. Recruiters

Applicants

For this research, we chose to use surveys and user interviews to get as much information.

We outlined their major pain points to be:

No feedback from recruiters.

Long recruitment process

Fear of fake job postings which could lead to kidnapping

Frustration from having to enter their information multiple times

Recruiters

To understand the problems organizations faced with hiring, we chose to approach two groups of hiring managers:

• HR in companies (in-house)

• Agency HR

After several surveys and interviews, we outline their pain points as:

1. Difficulty reviewing and short-listing candidates from a large pool of applications

2. Inability to accurately validate the applicant’s competency/skill

3. Screening candidates took up so much time.

Solution

After brainstorming ideas with the team, we analyzed our ideas to build our new requirements:

Goals

• Reduce screening time for recruiters

• Give applicants feedback on their applications

• Save applicants information for easy job application.