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Dharmesh Shah

Drafted for Slack - Slack app for employee referrals

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The Drafted app for slack brings intelligent referral suggestions to your favorite communication tool to fill your hiring pipeline

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Vinayak Ranade
Maker
(Vinayak here, CEO and founder at Drafted) Hey @dharmesh thanks so much for hunting this! We're really excited about this launch. It's based on a lot of feedback from early Drafted users that wanted an easier way to engage their teams when hiring. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks "hey I'm going to refer someone today". DraftedBot makes timely and interesting suggestions for people who you might be able to refer. DraftedBot helps you find people in your network that match open positions at your company, and allows you to refer them to the hiring team right through Slack. You can invite channels or individuals, everything is opt-in, and DraftedBot can actually put new referrals right into your applicant tracking system, too. Any feedback, questions, and feature requests especially, most welcome :)
Dharmesh Shah
Hunter
@pseudovirtual You had me at "we have a bot that makes it easy." :) Best wishes.
Kunal Bhatia
Great release, @pseudovirtual! This pulls together a lot of the Drafted platform to make recruiting and referrals frictionless. I noticed that the referral rewards for each position are not mentioned by the bot. Must be an intentional move. Why did you decide to exclude that info from the chat design?
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@kunalslab Thanks for the kind words Kunal - that's a great question. Our goal with building the Slack app was to make referrals easy and fun, more than anything else. Our choice to exclude the rewards in this version was based on two things - first, to keep the cognitive load low, and second, based on our finding that most people don't refer for the money, but they expect a reward if their referral gets hired. This means that rewards are better communicated as rewards and not incentives :)
Mike Volpe
As someone who has hired hundreds of people, I know referrals are the best hires. Anything to make that easier is very valuable!
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@mvolpe Thanks for the support :) Open to suggestions for anything else we can do!
Julie Lungaro
Makes employee referrals super easy! Excited to try this out!
Parul Singh
I love it when a Slack app is truly useful! And who doesn't need hiring help... Great job Vinayak & team!
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@parulia Thanks Parul - we're hoping that teams will love using this instead of having to fill out resume forms :)
Christian Allen
Love finding an app on PH that I can use today. We're about to put out the feelers for a new hire and already discussing extensively on Slack. You guys wire-tapping us? Seriously- thank you Drafted for inserting something useful right into the middle of what we were in the middle of doing #middleSquared (?). Will let you know how it goes.
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@christian_allen that just made my day :) -- makes all the customer interviews and user conversations worth it.
Joacim Westlund
Great idea! How does it find people to refer? Do everyone need to connect their social accounts?
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@joacimwe Good question - Drafted uses a combination of LinkedIn connections, publicly guessable connections, Google contacts, and some profile scraping to find people. Every person on the team can opt-in to connect with whatever they prefer - whether it's LinkedIn, Google for Work, personal Gmail, or nothing at all. Drafted only requires the first hiring manager to connect something, so that you get at least 1 recommendation.
Benjamin Hoffman
Finally an app that takes the pain out of internal referrals. I've used Drafted and love the UX. I'd rather spend my time coding so anything that makes the recruiting process easier/faster gets an upvote from me!
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@benhoffman_ Thanks Ben! Thanks for using Drafted, and looking forward to hearing your feedback about the Slack integration :)
Michael Sheeley
Great Slack integration! Building a team is always a challenge. This will help a lot and it is right in Slack where our team discuss new hires. Very slick!
Vinayak Ranade
Maker
@michaelsheeley Thanks for the support Mike! Curious to see who you hire next ;)
João Marcelo Martins
@jp_pro intrestring!