Description
Yelp helps users find local businesses of any kind and allows them to rate and share their opinions with other consumers. In the month of October 2010, Yelp had more than 38 million unique visitors Yelp leads word-of-mouth review websites with more than 14 million usersubmitted local reviews.
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc.
CASE STUDY
Yelp, Inc.
Jobvite powers a strategic recruiting program for the fast-growing
community-led local search site
An industry leader grows by word-of-mouth
Yelp helps users fnd local businesses of any kind and allows them
to rate and share their opinions with other consumers. In the month
of October 2010, Yelp had more than 38 million unique visitors Yelp
leads word-of-mouth review websites with more than 14 million user-
submitted local reviews.
Rated one of the top 50 Best Places to Work by San Francisco
Business Times, Yelp is looking for energetic, excellent candidates
who can keep it “Funny, Useful and Cool”. Earlier this year, the
company opened a new offce in Scottsdale, Ariz., and launched the
site in France, Germany and Austria.
Business success has driven dramatic hiring growth with the company
doubling in size over the past year. To power this hiring growth Yelp
uses Jobvite Hire, a Software-as-a-Service platform for collaboration
and management of hiring, integrated with social networks for fnding
talent in social networks.
Social media powered referrals
Yelp recruiters seek top talent through channels such as Internet
research, Boolean searches and social networking. But employee
referrals have always been the top source of candidates. As a
champion of peer reviews, Yelp knows the selling power of word-of-
mouth referrals.
“A strategic recruiting program is one that includes every employee. As
an organization we are focused on retention - keeping and developing
the talent we hire,” said Rachel Williams, Recruiting Manager at Yelp.
Industry
Consumer Internet
Location
San Francisco, CA
Business Needs
? Management of entire recruiting and
applicant tracking workfow
? Creative sourcing channels to fnd
qualifed candidates
? Easy-to-use recruiting system for
everyone involved
Jobvite Solution
? Manage entire talent acquisition
process
? Easy to use web application
? Empower employee referrals and
social network hiring
Results
? 33% of hires now made by referral
? Sending Jobvites extends reach in
social networks
? Effcient collaboration among hiring
managers and recruiters
Website
www.yelp.com
“Through Jobvite, we can easily keep an eye on
which sources are yielding the most hires, and
adjust our recruiting strategy in response.”
Cindy Mesaros
Vice President of People at Yelp
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc. 2
CASE STUDY Yelp, Inc.
“Motivated, engaged employees talk about the jobs they
love and encourage other talented people to join. They
naturally become a part of the extended recruiting team.
Jobvite allows us to leverage social media and provide
a personal way to tell those stories and share that
information.”
The Jobvite platform provides an easy way for all
employees to help recruit, ensuring that the company
maintains a healthy pipeline of high-quality candidates.
Anyone at Yelp can send a Jobvite, a personal job
invitation, to spread news of open positions virally in their
own social and professional networks.
Each employee can send out word with personal Jobvites
via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and email to their contacts.
To refne the target pool, Jobvite provides matching
technology that identifes which contacts in an employee’s
network are the best match for any given position.
Recipients can then apply to the job or pass along the
Jobvite to their own contacts.
Streamlined hiring
The Yelp team uses Jobvite Hire to streamline various
stages of hiring and automate applicant tracking.
Workfow is confgured to ft the business process at Yelp,
so that approvals, scheduling and other communications
meet the needs of the growing organization.
With a role-based user experience, everyone involved can
collaborate easily and get the information they need in
real-time. Email-enabled workfow speeds the process
and helps hiring managers stay on top of their tasks.
Hiring managers have instant visibility into the status of
the pipeline for their jobs.
Recruiters also have real-time visibility into the
performance of all sources that supply candidates for
their positions. Jobvite technology embeds tracking via
job ads, social sharing, referrals and more.
“Jobvite is really user-friendly and any employee can pick
it up quickly,” said Rachel Williams, Recruiting Manager.
“This intuitive interface saves time for our recruiting staff
and hiring managers. The effciency Jobvite provides
means we spend less time on administrative tasks and
can spend more time connecting with the talent.”
Highly quali?ed talent for a fast-growing company
The Jobvite platform has enabled Yelp to be highly
effective at hiring through employee referrals and social
networks. Referrals provide high quality candidates who
are more likely to possess the required skills. Even
though the employee population has grown dramatically,
referrals have provided a consistent, high volume source
of applicants.
Jobvite allows Yelp to apply the word-of-mouth character
of its web community to its recruiting program. In true
viral fashion, job information has continued to spread
beyond Yelp’s employee lines, with 35 percent of Jobvites
sent outside the company forwarded in turn.
“Jobvite makes it easy for our employees to get
information about open positions and quickly invite their
contacts and networks to apply,” said Cindy Mesaros, VP
People at Yelp. “Through Jobvite, we can easily keep an
eye on which sources are yielding the most hires, and
adjust our recruiting strategy in response.”
“A strategic recruiting program is one
that includes every employee.”
Rachel Williams
Recruiting Manager, Yelp
“Jobvite is really user-friendly and any
employee can pick it up quickly. This
intuitive interface saves time for our
recruiting staff and hiring managers.”
Rachel Williams
Recruiting Manager, Yelp
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc. 3
About Yelp, Inc.
Yelp is a website that connects people with great local
businesses, allowing people to read and write review
of places they have visited. The site had more than 38
million unique visitors in October 2010 and more than
14 million local reviews have been posted to the site
since it launched. Representing the power of word-of-
mouth referrals, Yelp ranks at No. 5 on TIME’s list of 10
Essential Sites.
For more information visit www.yelp.com
Jobvite is the only recruiting platform that that delivers
real-time recruiting intelligence with innovative technology
for the evolving social web. Leading, fast-growing
companies today use Jobvite’s social recruiting, sourcing
and talent acquisition solutions to target the right talent
and build the best teams. Jobvite is a complete, modular
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which can optimize
the speed, cost-effectiveness and ease of recruiting for
any company. To ?nd out more, take a product tour.
Jobvite Hire is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive
web-based platform that helps you effectively manage
every stage of hiring. It’s the only social recruiting
and applicant tracking solution that makes it easy
for everyone to work together on hiring. With Jobvite
Hire, you can improve the speed and quality of talent
acquisition, create a great candidate experience,
increase referral and social network hires – all while
using fewer resources.
Jobvite Source, is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive
web-based application that can help you achieve your
recruitment sourcing goals today. It’s the only social
sourcing and candidate relationship management
application that helps you target relevant talent through
employee referrals, social networks and the web – then
build and engage your talent pool. Jobvite Source is one
intuitive platform to manage all sourcing programs and
see the results.
About Jobvite
CONNECT WITH US
www.jobvite.com
www.twitter.com/jobvite
www.facebook.com/jobvite
650 376 7200
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc. 4
How to Jobvite
Send a job invitation to your contacts in social networks or email.
1 Pick a job you want to Jobvite –
from a career site or your account.
Choose the contacts you want to
Jobvite or broadcast the job to
your entire network.
Send a Jobvite via email using contacts in Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail.
2
Your contacts can either apply or Jobvite their own networks.
3
LinkedIn®is registered trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. Facebook®is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
doc_724843438.pdf
Yelp helps users find local businesses of any kind and allows them to rate and share their opinions with other consumers. In the month of October 2010, Yelp had more than 38 million unique visitors Yelp leads word-of-mouth review websites with more than 14 million usersubmitted local reviews.
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc.
CASE STUDY
Yelp, Inc.
Jobvite powers a strategic recruiting program for the fast-growing
community-led local search site
An industry leader grows by word-of-mouth
Yelp helps users fnd local businesses of any kind and allows them
to rate and share their opinions with other consumers. In the month
of October 2010, Yelp had more than 38 million unique visitors Yelp
leads word-of-mouth review websites with more than 14 million user-
submitted local reviews.
Rated one of the top 50 Best Places to Work by San Francisco
Business Times, Yelp is looking for energetic, excellent candidates
who can keep it “Funny, Useful and Cool”. Earlier this year, the
company opened a new offce in Scottsdale, Ariz., and launched the
site in France, Germany and Austria.
Business success has driven dramatic hiring growth with the company
doubling in size over the past year. To power this hiring growth Yelp
uses Jobvite Hire, a Software-as-a-Service platform for collaboration
and management of hiring, integrated with social networks for fnding
talent in social networks.
Social media powered referrals
Yelp recruiters seek top talent through channels such as Internet
research, Boolean searches and social networking. But employee
referrals have always been the top source of candidates. As a
champion of peer reviews, Yelp knows the selling power of word-of-
mouth referrals.
“A strategic recruiting program is one that includes every employee. As
an organization we are focused on retention - keeping and developing
the talent we hire,” said Rachel Williams, Recruiting Manager at Yelp.
Industry
Consumer Internet
Location
San Francisco, CA
Business Needs
? Management of entire recruiting and
applicant tracking workfow
? Creative sourcing channels to fnd
qualifed candidates
? Easy-to-use recruiting system for
everyone involved
Jobvite Solution
? Manage entire talent acquisition
process
? Easy to use web application
? Empower employee referrals and
social network hiring
Results
? 33% of hires now made by referral
? Sending Jobvites extends reach in
social networks
? Effcient collaboration among hiring
managers and recruiters
Website
www.yelp.com
“Through Jobvite, we can easily keep an eye on
which sources are yielding the most hires, and
adjust our recruiting strategy in response.”
Cindy Mesaros
Vice President of People at Yelp
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc. 2
CASE STUDY Yelp, Inc.
“Motivated, engaged employees talk about the jobs they
love and encourage other talented people to join. They
naturally become a part of the extended recruiting team.
Jobvite allows us to leverage social media and provide
a personal way to tell those stories and share that
information.”
The Jobvite platform provides an easy way for all
employees to help recruit, ensuring that the company
maintains a healthy pipeline of high-quality candidates.
Anyone at Yelp can send a Jobvite, a personal job
invitation, to spread news of open positions virally in their
own social and professional networks.
Each employee can send out word with personal Jobvites
via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and email to their contacts.
To refne the target pool, Jobvite provides matching
technology that identifes which contacts in an employee’s
network are the best match for any given position.
Recipients can then apply to the job or pass along the
Jobvite to their own contacts.
Streamlined hiring
The Yelp team uses Jobvite Hire to streamline various
stages of hiring and automate applicant tracking.
Workfow is confgured to ft the business process at Yelp,
so that approvals, scheduling and other communications
meet the needs of the growing organization.
With a role-based user experience, everyone involved can
collaborate easily and get the information they need in
real-time. Email-enabled workfow speeds the process
and helps hiring managers stay on top of their tasks.
Hiring managers have instant visibility into the status of
the pipeline for their jobs.
Recruiters also have real-time visibility into the
performance of all sources that supply candidates for
their positions. Jobvite technology embeds tracking via
job ads, social sharing, referrals and more.
“Jobvite is really user-friendly and any employee can pick
it up quickly,” said Rachel Williams, Recruiting Manager.
“This intuitive interface saves time for our recruiting staff
and hiring managers. The effciency Jobvite provides
means we spend less time on administrative tasks and
can spend more time connecting with the talent.”
Highly quali?ed talent for a fast-growing company
The Jobvite platform has enabled Yelp to be highly
effective at hiring through employee referrals and social
networks. Referrals provide high quality candidates who
are more likely to possess the required skills. Even
though the employee population has grown dramatically,
referrals have provided a consistent, high volume source
of applicants.
Jobvite allows Yelp to apply the word-of-mouth character
of its web community to its recruiting program. In true
viral fashion, job information has continued to spread
beyond Yelp’s employee lines, with 35 percent of Jobvites
sent outside the company forwarded in turn.
“Jobvite makes it easy for our employees to get
information about open positions and quickly invite their
contacts and networks to apply,” said Cindy Mesaros, VP
People at Yelp. “Through Jobvite, we can easily keep an
eye on which sources are yielding the most hires, and
adjust our recruiting strategy in response.”
“A strategic recruiting program is one
that includes every employee.”
Rachel Williams
Recruiting Manager, Yelp
“Jobvite is really user-friendly and any
employee can pick it up quickly. This
intuitive interface saves time for our
recruiting staff and hiring managers.”
Rachel Williams
Recruiting Manager, Yelp
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc. 3
About Yelp, Inc.
Yelp is a website that connects people with great local
businesses, allowing people to read and write review
of places they have visited. The site had more than 38
million unique visitors in October 2010 and more than
14 million local reviews have been posted to the site
since it launched. Representing the power of word-of-
mouth referrals, Yelp ranks at No. 5 on TIME’s list of 10
Essential Sites.
For more information visit www.yelp.com
Jobvite is the only recruiting platform that that delivers
real-time recruiting intelligence with innovative technology
for the evolving social web. Leading, fast-growing
companies today use Jobvite’s social recruiting, sourcing
and talent acquisition solutions to target the right talent
and build the best teams. Jobvite is a complete, modular
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which can optimize
the speed, cost-effectiveness and ease of recruiting for
any company. To ?nd out more, take a product tour.
Jobvite Hire is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive
web-based platform that helps you effectively manage
every stage of hiring. It’s the only social recruiting
and applicant tracking solution that makes it easy
for everyone to work together on hiring. With Jobvite
Hire, you can improve the speed and quality of talent
acquisition, create a great candidate experience,
increase referral and social network hires – all while
using fewer resources.
Jobvite Source, is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive
web-based application that can help you achieve your
recruitment sourcing goals today. It’s the only social
sourcing and candidate relationship management
application that helps you target relevant talent through
employee referrals, social networks and the web – then
build and engage your talent pool. Jobvite Source is one
intuitive platform to manage all sourcing programs and
see the results.
About Jobvite
CONNECT WITH US
www.jobvite.com
www.twitter.com/jobvite
www.facebook.com/jobvite
650 376 7200
Copyright © 2010 Jobvite, Inc. 4
How to Jobvite
Send a job invitation to your contacts in social networks or email.
1 Pick a job you want to Jobvite –
from a career site or your account.
Choose the contacts you want to
Jobvite or broadcast the job to
your entire network.
Send a Jobvite via email using contacts in Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, or Hotmail.
2
Your contacts can either apply or Jobvite their own networks.
3
LinkedIn®is registered trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. Facebook®is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
doc_724843438.pdf