Finding a job in a swipe K-State alumni develop job searching app to match employees with employers in a unique way BY TIM SCHRAG ’12
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n an ever more digital landscape, people do a lot of swiping. It’s almost second nature to anyone with a smartphone. On apps like Instagram, we swipe up to learn more. On apps like Bumble, we swipe right on people we like and left on those we don’t. Sisters Deborah Muhwezi Gladney ’10 and Angela Muhwezi-Hall ’13 have built an app called QuickHire to use this swiping concept to help people find work. The idea of QuickHire has been something Muhwezi-Hall had been sitting on for several years. Muhwezi-Hall had been working in career and educational advising at the college level when a student came to her office. “She had all these paper applications, she was trying to find a local job opportunity at a grocery store or retail store,” MuhweziHall said. “And it kind of struck me in that moment that while it’s been years, since myself or Deborah, even longer since our parents who migrated here from Uganda worked in those spaces, the process of applying to those jobs really hasn’t changed much. A lot of those positions still require you to walk into their brick-and-mortar store to even know if they’re hiring. And then they’ll probably give you a paper application to fill out.” They did a deep dive and learned more about the application process for non-degree jobs, sometimes called blue collar jobs. They discovered the technology and application Photo courtesy of QuickHire
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