New startup connects developers with jobs through talent-testing events

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The startup from Malaga, Hack Me Up, was born to revolutionize the traditional recruitment method by putting developers in contact with the best job offers through hackathons or specific events, one day long, in which programmers, developers, and professionals of the Information Technology (IT) sector compete with each other with different challenges and projects demonstrating knowledge, skills, and training.

The CEO of Hack Me Up, founded and incubated at the headquarters of Demium in Malaga, Sara Luque, has indicated that through the test environment they design for the hackathon, the candidate is evaluated more accurately and objectively in a only day, offering companies IT profiles that fit what they really need in an exact, easy, and much more economical and profitable way. For Luque, experiences are created with these events: "Not only profiles are evaluated in a totally objective manner, which saves time and costs for companies, but also candidates know projects and technological challenges much better than the company it has aroused greater interest in them," he said.

In a few months this Malaga company has already made eight hackathons, six in Malaga, one in Granada, one in Madrid, and another coming to Madrid on the 22nd with one in Barcelona in July.

"We grow at a good pace, we already have more than 800 profiles in our database, although the most immediate challenge is the launch of our fully online platform that will allow us to reach more people," explained Hack Me Up CEO, Sara Luque.

For his part, as explained by the CTO and technical development, Elio Suarez, among the main objectives is to get a broad database of candidates evaluated and companies have Hack me up as "a powerful recruitment tool internal since companies and candidates converge in a less aggressive environment than a formal work interview."

Luque has stressed that from Hack Me Up is offered to companies with the option of "having access to many more IT profiles than a headhunter" or a conventional recruiting company. He clarified, "they are not in social networks focused on job search such as LinkedIn or Infojobs." On the other hand, the startup from Malaga offers the IT profiles community different job offers in a less aggressive way, generating them more interest, explaining the project well, and making them lose less time to apply for offers that may not fit them.

According to the European Commission, by 2020 it is estimated that more than one million IT profiles will be needed throughout Europe, but the reality is that 40 percent of companies have difficulties in hiring professionals with specific ICT training. That and the high turnover of workers, close to 20 percent, and due to a poor fit between offer and candidate (60%), which supposes a high expense for the company.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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