SIIA recently welcomed The Resumator to our community. I had a chance to chat with their Marketing Director, Laurie Barkman, to learn a bit more about the talent acquisition space. Read my interview below.

Rhianna: Welcome to SIIA! Tell me a little about The Resumator and what makes you unique.

Laurie: The Resumator is a recruiting platform to help fast-growing businesses confidently manage their hiring. We’ve made the system easy to use, easy to learn, and easy to implement, so small-to-medium sized businesses can save time and money hiring great people.  Our software provides tools that simplify hiring tasks, processes that any company can adapt, and the data to assist in making informed hiring decisions.

Rhianna: You are experiencing tremendous growth. In fact, I heard you are looking to almost double your staff this year. To what do you attribute the rapid growth rate?

Laurie: That’s true – we’re currently 18 people strong and we’re on track to end the year at about 30. We’ve built an talented core team. It’s because of their hard work, talent, and creativity that we’ve been able to achieve success in a relatively short time.

It’s also proof that the inspiration behind our product is sound. Our team has done a tremendous job executing on the vision of a simpler, more socially intelligent hiring solution. Since 2009, The Resumator has helped more than 900 companies develop their hiring process and attract over 1 million applicants.  Leading companies across all industries including Evernote, Atari, Mashable, IGN, ThinkGeek, Pinterest, and Klout use The Resumator to ramp up their hiring.

Rhianna: You recently announced a partnership with StartUp America, helping to fuel entrepreneurs. What is the significance of this partnership?

Laurie: We believe that the future lies in entrepreneurial solutions to everyday problems. Startup America is doing a great job of empowering entrepreneurs and generating excitement around their members.

The partnership with StartUp America gives us a chance to connect with a large number of people on the front lines of building innovative new companies. We offered StartUp America members about $12 million in free access to The Resumator to help ramp-up their teams and launch their businesses.

Rhianna: The talent acquisition for cloud service providers seems so intense right now. Are you seeing that as well? Are there other specific industries facing similar challenges?

Laurie: Looking at the hiring activity of employers using The Resumator, we have a few observations. Most notable is the strong demand for software engineers, which is common amongst technology companies including cloud service providers.  Additionally, there is strong hiring activity in other industries including marketing services, e-commerce, and health care. There is a growing demand for account managers, designers, customer support representatives, and nurses.

Rhianna Collier is VP for the Software Division at SIIA.