2023年5月24日

伦敦HRtech Konfir旨在成为就业的标准验证,提高了£200万年的种子资金。投资者包括三相点,爱冒险,组合投资,资金将支持Konfir增强和扩大其产品。创始人兼首席执行官Chris Milligan加入TFN的告诉我们为什么他开始Konfir和他计划扩大其范围,雇主和员工都受益。由人力资源需要Milligan的背景一直是人力资源和创业。来自布里斯班,他开始他的职业生涯作为一个人力资源顾问Adepto成立之前,一个平台,帮助企业匹配他们的人才项目。他在2016年搬到伦敦作为平台的扩张的一部分,之前美国Adepto收购时看学历。正是在这里,他第一次Konfir的灵感来源。“我看到人力资源数据和工资数据变得更容易,我调查发生了什么在英国和欧洲,”他回忆说。”有一个很大的机会帮助就业和收入确认在所有用例。“Konfir的报价似乎简单——他们提供一个快速的方法来确认工作经历——但它解决了一个大难题许多人力资源专业人士。 “The majority of employers, before they hire, do a background check,” says Milligan. But while many parts of this, like checking the right to work or for a criminal record, have been automated, confirming employment history remains manual. “It’s emailing and asking ‘did this person work here?’ and hoping to get a reply. But only 60% of those emails get a reply.” The result can be weeks of delays. Some businesses will ask for alternative evidence, such as bank statements detailing salary payments, which has privacy issues, or simply give up, putting them at risk of a bad hire. Konfir changes this to a process that takes just a few minutes. “We’ve built a journey that asks the candidate to connect their bank accounts, or for an employer to connect their payroll accounts,” Milligan explains. The system uses this to extract only the employment history, “instantly the data comes back, we apply some algorithms to it and our model shows the last three to five years’ employment.” Although it offers significant benefits to employers, who can streamline their hiring processes, Milligan says that employees are also benefiting. As well as being able to start new jobs sooner, they are also in more control. “The data is accurate because it’s not just someone’s email, it’s coming from the source of truth: the bank or payroll system,” he says. “And although the data are processed by us, the candidate owns it, and we show less than the traditional approach will share.” Although the system requires the agreement of candidates to process their data, Milligan says that the benefits are such that around 80% of candidates agree to Konfir processing their employment history. Applications beyond HR Konfir are also looking at applications for their service beyond HR. Adrian Love, co-founder and general partner of Love Ventures , noted that employment verification is not just about applying for jobs, “it’s crazy that there’s been no single source of instant employment and income data verification until now. This is especially pressing given the huge variety and volume of companies crying out for this crucial data validation when helping customers take on life’s big events; whether it’s getting a job, house, credit, or anything in between.” Milligan has already been considering this, and points out there is a wider screening market. “Those checks are done if you are looking to move house and have to prove to your landlord that you’ve got a job. Or if you are looking to get a mortgage. Or if you want to get a car loan. Or even a credit card,” he said. “We’ve started selling it to HR, but the opportunity is to then take that across all the other use cases.” Milligan plans to use the funding to develop their service. Rather than expanding their fourteen-strong team, he hopes to make Konfir a default system for HR. “ The focus for us has been proving the model works and that employers and candidates will use it,” he said. But he is confident of their successes so far, and believes that the benefits their current users have seen show that there is demand for Konfir. “We’re really starting to create the market, so the investment allows us to continue to make this a standard in the UK.”