Startup Spotlight: Kellogg’s Better Weekdays
This article was originally sourced from “Start Me Up: Chris Motley ’11,” part of Kellogg’s “Start Me Up” series, which spotlights members of the Kellogg community who are putting their entrepreneurial visions into practice.
Companies tend to hire on skills and fire on fit–after all fit is something hard to quantify over an interview process. Better Weekdays hopes to change that dynamic. Founded by former Kellogg School of Management student Chris Motley in 2012, the career-management platform uses big data and analytics to match job-seeking professionals with candidate-seeking companies, based on compatibility and cultural fit. To date, the website maintains approximately more than 300,000 job postings. The company uses a platform called MatchRank, which determine job seekers’ personalities and competencies by pooling resume data. They also take into account employment preferences and JobScript— a self-assessment tool that analyzes an individual’s personality and makes job recommendations based on that information. The technology also scrapes the web for job postings, attaches metadata to the postings and then filters them to candidates according to compatibility.
“What I learned from Kellogg, and what I think is so true to today in entrepreneurship, is to have a culture of collaboration and align interests accordingly,” Motley said.
He adds that his education gave him practical tools and frameworks for launching a startup, teaching him how to assess business opportunities, manage cash-flow challenges and drive growth by focusing on core competencies.
“The Kellogg education was the formal foundation of my entrepreneurial journey,” Motley said.
Motley’s goal is simple: “To create career happiness by making meaningful connections between job seekers and employers,” he says. “If we remove the junk that’s creating all this friction, then we get the right people in the right jobs. People are more productive, they’re retained longer and everyone is more successful.”
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