This Yale Startup is Changing the Job Recruitment Game

Job-matching sites Internships.com and WayUp have a new competitor.

Every modern college student knows of the plethora of internship and job-matching services available to help them to land the vaunted early career opportunity. Today, landing a mere interview in competitive fields like consulting and finance can be a nightmarish ordeal, so online services like Internships.com and Indeed.com have seen a spike in popularity in recent years.

Most students hoping to land an interview know that as a whole, these websites usually don’t deliver. Myself included: despite using a number of these platforms during my sophomore and junior years in college, not one helped me get an interview with a single firm in any industry.

Earlier this year, when I heard about yet another new company—RippleMatch—with the dubious promise of helping me land an interview, I rolled my eyes. But since this startup had received nearly two million dollars in venture capital funding, I decided to give it a try, just as an experiment.

About a month after uploading my resume, I received an email from a Ripple employee who told me that I have an interview with a Managing Director at a $6 billion private equity firm. I was stunned. For the unfamiliar, getting such an opportunity is reserved for 4.0 students from Harvard, or if their uncle owns the firm.