1 Year Anniversary

spark Hire 1 Year Anniversary August 2010: On a cross-country drive returning for his final year of college, founder Josh Tolan dreams up the idea for Spark Hire on some cocktail napkins. October 14, 2010: A great idea deserves a great Twitter handle: @sparkhire. facebook July 7, 2011: Getting ready to open, Spark Hire's Facebook profile goes twitter live. February 2012: * Spark Hire is born! Spark Hire has 2 employees. * February 6th, 2012: First employer and job seeker accounts are created. April 30th, 2012: * Spark Hire goes to its first conference, the IHRIM HRMS Strategies Conference and Technology Exposition in Chicago, IL. * Spark Hire will go on to attend 7 more conferences in 2012! May 2012: Spark Hire goes international! The service opens up to international users, allowing candidates and employers to connect all over the world. A job seeker interviews for a great job in Fun Fact Chicago..while out of the country during an internship abroad! .... Can you hear me now? Spark Hire's iPhone app makes it the first platform that allows you to record video resumes and interviews from your mobile phone. "Just had an amazing video interview at Spark Hire buys one 6-foot tall whiteboard SparkHire.com. I'm a tech guy, to use in getting their creative juices flowing. but the fact that I did it all from my iPhone amazes me." One is enough, right? job seeker David Walls on Twitter June 24th, 2012: Spark Hire attends SHRM Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. UIC, Utah State, Arizona State, and Villanova University encourage their students to use Spark Hire when applying for jobs. August 2012: Conference fever! Spark Hire attends the Illinois SHRM State Conference and the HR Florida State Conference and Expo in Orlando, FL. September 2012: Still suffering from convention fever! Spark Hire attends the ERE Fall Expo in Hollywood, FL and the lowa SHRM State Conference in Des Moines, IA. October 2012: Spark Hire releases the first video interviewing and video resume app for Android allowing these job seekers to perform a one-way video interview from their smartphone. "The ability to pre- screen WAY more potential candidates in way less time was one of the things October 8-9, 2012: Spark Hire attends the 15th Annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago, IL. mentioned numerous times by the supervisors." November 8th, 2012: - Debe, HR Nevada School District Spark Hire attends the HRMAC Summit in Rosemont, IL. 1yr Spark Hire now has TWENTY TWO employees. Tweet all about it! Spark Hire has 2,263 Twitter followers! February 2013 Multi-national Facebook >10,000 job seeker presence with 1,292 likes from 20 countries 1-Year accounts >1,000 employer accounts on Spark Hire. & 15 languages. Muy bien! Anniversary Over 5,000 video 1 whiteboard wasn't enough: Spark Hire now has 8 whiteboards, interviews have been performed from the site! accounting for more than 70 feet of space. Around the Office: If it's Friday, you know it's time for the It wouldn't be Spark Hire if there weren't a few pranks along the way. Slam Dunk Challenge! Every Friday, a member of the sales team accepts the challenge of making the hardest dunk possible on the office basketball hoop. And 9 times out of 10, the challenge is completed! ... One time, the team told new hire everyone always sang on the first Friday of their first week. While his rendition of Elton John's "Rocket Man" was hauntingly beautiful, he soon found out this wasn't a long-standing tradition after all. Speaking of performances, watch out for the holiday karaoke parties! Some of Spark Hire's biggest office mistakes are made in front of the microphone. spark Hire