WEBVTT 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:23.700 Sorry. 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:40.900 I think the way we can do this profile is we can just have a quick conversation about 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:50.180 who you are, what you do in tech, and what you'd use the Hiree network for, and then 00:01:50.180 --> 00:01:54.500 what your experience is with it, and why you think it's a cool idea. 00:01:54.500 --> 00:01:57.660 And then, yeah, we'll just do that. 00:01:57.660 --> 00:01:58.660 Sweet. 00:01:58.660 --> 00:01:59.660 All right. 00:01:59.660 --> 00:02:00.660 Just go whenever? 00:02:00.660 --> 00:02:01.660 Yeah. 00:02:01.660 --> 00:02:02.660 So, my name's Mark. 00:02:02.660 --> 00:02:03.660 I work with Hiree. 00:02:03.660 --> 00:02:11.820 I've been here for a few years, and here we have Riley Chapman. 00:02:11.820 --> 00:02:17.420 And yeah, we have been talking through the Hiree network and testing it. 00:02:17.420 --> 00:02:21.500 And yeah, you can hear a little bit about yourself, Riley. 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:22.500 Yeah. 00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:23.500 I'm Riley. 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:28.820 I've been kind of doing freelance work for a bit now, and I've been working on a similar 00:02:28.820 --> 00:02:31.900 platform called Upwork. 00:02:31.900 --> 00:02:39.660 And it's similar, but it doesn't have the same usability. 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:40.980 So yeah. 00:02:40.980 --> 00:02:41.980 Yeah. 00:02:41.980 --> 00:02:45.620 And then what's your background like in tech? 00:02:45.620 --> 00:02:50.740 What have you been doing in tech these last couple of years? 00:02:50.740 --> 00:02:53.860 So I've been doing a bit of game dev. 00:02:53.860 --> 00:02:59.100 I've coded a couple different games just to really teach myself how to code. 00:02:59.100 --> 00:03:03.940 And I've been doing a bit of QA work with different contracts I've done. 00:03:03.940 --> 00:03:10.620 I built some test suites using Playwright and things like that, and a bit of data entry 00:03:10.620 --> 00:03:14.620 more recently. 00:03:15.620 --> 00:03:18.180 Very cool. 00:03:18.180 --> 00:03:25.420 And why don't you talk a little bit about what you think about the Hiree network, and 00:03:25.420 --> 00:03:29.340 what type of things you'd use it for, and that type of stuff. 00:03:29.340 --> 00:03:30.340 Yeah. 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:40.380 I think Hiree is kind of what I've been looking for in Upwork, because it's much more user-friendly, 00:03:40.380 --> 00:03:44.540 and it's much more upfront about things. 00:03:44.540 --> 00:03:49.460 And you can kind of just connect with people without having to jump through a bunch of 00:03:49.460 --> 00:03:56.180 loops and go through a bunch of semantics, basically. 00:03:56.180 --> 00:04:04.740 And I kind of already brought this up, but the Tasks app in specific, I think I would 00:04:04.740 --> 00:04:14.180 use a ton, like every day, all day, basically, to schedule out my every day, basically. 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:22.180 And I think being able to have somewhere where you can just go day to day and be like, hey, 00:04:22.180 --> 00:04:29.020 find me a list of the jobs that I can apply to that best fit me is super, super helpful. 00:04:29.020 --> 00:04:36.740 And it's much more accurate than any type of algorithm is going to be, because it's 00:04:36.740 --> 00:04:44.180 able to kind of learn me as a person, and also learn the clients as people, and match 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:45.900 us up better that way. 00:04:45.900 --> 00:04:46.900 Yeah. 00:04:46.900 --> 00:04:52.340 By using your AI that knows you and is accustomed to you, you think that'll help get you better 00:04:52.340 --> 00:04:53.340 connections. 00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:54.340 Yeah. 00:04:54.340 --> 00:05:08.860 And I think the who I met will also be a really good way to not only track people you 00:05:08.860 --> 00:05:16.140 meet, but I think it could also be a good security feature, almost, to kind of have 00:05:16.140 --> 00:05:23.380 in writing the people who you've met and what those interactions have been. 00:05:23.380 --> 00:05:30.020 So then if there's something that needs to be disputed, that's all there in writing. 00:05:30.020 --> 00:05:31.020 Yeah. 00:05:31.020 --> 00:05:32.020 Yeah. 00:05:32.020 --> 00:05:38.900 Having that kind of paper trail a little bit, kind of like a little receipt or something 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:40.900 like that. 00:05:40.900 --> 00:05:43.820 Yeah. 00:05:43.820 --> 00:05:54.620 And I think something that stands out right now is the functionality and the user-friendliness. 00:05:54.620 --> 00:06:01.140 I think a lot of the UI can be ironed out over time. 00:06:01.140 --> 00:06:12.340 And I think as a newer person in the professional tech world, at least, it's been really helpful 00:06:12.340 --> 00:06:23.060 in kind of showing me where to go and what I should be sharing about myself and what 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:26.220 clients are looking for and just things like that. 00:06:26.220 --> 00:06:31.060 Can you elaborate on that a little bit? 00:06:31.060 --> 00:06:32.060 Yeah. 00:06:32.060 --> 00:06:42.460 So I think being newer in tech, I kind of don't really know where to go. 00:06:42.460 --> 00:06:50.540 There's not a good roadmap for this is how you get into computers. 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:58.540 And so being able to, like I even asked mine today, I'm just looking to get my foot in 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:02.260 the door in the computer industry. 00:07:02.260 --> 00:07:05.100 What can I do to help that? 00:07:05.100 --> 00:07:13.620 And it gave me a list of job listings that were currently on the Hiree website and basically 00:07:13.620 --> 00:07:21.680 broke down what I should learn and what I should start working on to be able to give 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.980 clients what they want, basically. 00:07:23.980 --> 00:07:26.020 Oh, that's really cool. 00:07:26.020 --> 00:07:30.580 So your AI knew to use the context from the Hiree plugin to kind of inform the answer 00:07:30.580 --> 00:07:33.300 that it gave you about breaking into tech. 00:07:33.300 --> 00:07:35.300 Yeah, exactly. 00:07:35.300 --> 00:07:36.300 Wow. 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:37.300 That's really cool. 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:38.300 Yeah. 00:07:38.300 --> 00:07:56.620 I think the fact that everything is really open source and very clear about what it's 00:07:56.620 --> 00:08:07.100 doing as well makes it much more likely, I guess, for the broader user base to use it. 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:13.900 Because I think with how a lot of people view AI right now, they'll see an AI thing 00:08:13.900 --> 00:08:18.460 they don't understand and just kind of scoff at it or whatever. 00:08:18.460 --> 00:08:25.740 But I think the fact that it kind of clearly breaks down why it's so helpful on the website 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:30.620 makes it much easier to be like, okay, I'm going to give this a try. 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:38.940 Yeah, I think without the context of the website, that's kind of hard to see where the value 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:45.660 is and what we're trying to do with the tool. 00:08:45.660 --> 00:09:00.540 Yeah, I think overall, the functionality is really good for the most part there. 00:09:01.500 --> 00:09:10.700 I kind of talked about adding maybe a button on the website to edit your user profile from 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:11.700 there. 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:19.980 But other than that, it really clearly breaks down what each different section is for, which 00:09:19.980 --> 00:09:23.500 is I think where it really stands out. 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:30.300 So you're able to go to the client section and look for a job that'll fit you. 00:09:31.180 --> 00:09:33.260 It's much more, I guess, personalized. 00:09:36.300 --> 00:09:42.460 Yeah, having that kind of guidance to adding that button to kind of take you directly to 00:09:42.460 --> 00:09:43.180 the client section. 00:09:43.180 --> 00:09:43.900 Is that what you said? 00:09:45.500 --> 00:09:46.300 No, sorry. 00:09:46.300 --> 00:09:51.900 I was saying that on the Explore page, there's a section dedicated to clients. 00:09:52.620 --> 00:09:58.540 I haven't really seen that many other places. 00:10:00.300 --> 00:10:06.620 I think it's something small, but it is very, very big, if that makes sense. 00:10:07.660 --> 00:10:10.860 Yeah, that's a big difference. 00:10:10.860 --> 00:10:12.540 Yeah, having kind of like, oh, I get what you mean. 00:10:12.540 --> 00:10:18.060 Yeah, as opposed to like other common platforms, there's not really like that Explore page, 00:10:18.060 --> 00:10:19.180 like it's totally available. 00:10:20.140 --> 00:10:20.620 Right. 00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:28.140 Like things like Upwork, for example, you can scroll through what you're given, basically, 00:10:28.140 --> 00:10:29.180 and then that's it. 00:10:29.180 --> 00:10:35.180 Whereas this, you can kind of scroll through all the clients and look at a client's profile 00:10:36.380 --> 00:10:39.340 by itself, which I know you can't do on Upwork. 00:10:39.340 --> 00:10:41.340 I don't know about other platforms. 00:10:43.740 --> 00:10:44.240 But yeah. 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:51.680 Yeah, more transparency in the marketplace. 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:53.600 I think, yeah, with Adida, I don't think they really let you. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.560 They don't let you have like a full view of it. 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:57.860 Yeah. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:10:59.940 Yeah. 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:02.080 I don't think they do. 00:11:03.280 --> 00:11:12.240 Yeah, and I don't know what the monetization looks like, but I haven't had to buy anything 00:11:12.800 --> 00:11:16.160 or anything, and that's been also really pleasant. 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:18.160 Yeah, yeah. 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:20.160 I've never seen that before. 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:23.840 Yeah, yeah, right now we're totally free. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:28.080 Yeah, so to try and just kind of test it out and connect with people, you can do all that 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.440 on our platform without any cost right now. 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:31.940 Yeah. 00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:37.200 Well, cool, man. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.840 Thanks for taking a few minutes to kind of talk about yourself and talk about your experience 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:42.560 with the platform. 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:48.400 I'm really, really, really glad you liked it and that you kind of see the concepts, 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:49.440 see the vision. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:57.520 And yeah, I'll trim this up and then we'll put it on our featured page. 00:11:57.520 --> 00:12:03.680 And yeah, and we'll talk more about everything else through our channel. 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:05.520 And I'm going to go ahead and I'll add you on LinkedIn too. 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:07.280 Awesome, sweet. 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:08.400 Thank you so much. 00:12:08.400 --> 00:12:09.440 Yeah, no problem, man. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:10.480 All right, you have a good one now. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:11.040 Take care. 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:12.800 Yeah, have a great rest of your day, Mark. 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:14.560 Thank you, you too.