Parachute is a free consolidated list of all employees laid off during the Covid-19 pandemic that is accurate, up to date, and easy to filter. Add yourself to the list if you were affected or have us take care of legal compliance to build a list for your team.
@indegow1 Thanks for the message Gowri. We don’t track our users in detail however we do know recruiters from Apple, Amazon, NerdWallet, Mighty, and Thrive Global have told us that they are using Parachute! Over 2,700 people have searched for talent on the site so far, most are likely recruiters or hiring managers. Let us know if you have any other questions :)
@indegow1@zach1taylor1 One of the reasons we don't have more detailed data on recruiters/hiring managers is that we make it very easy to look through the profiles - no sign up needed! At this critical time, we made that decision to make the product as approachable as possible.
Hey, I'm Arjun — the co-founder of Rocket.
It has been heartbreaking seeing so many talented folks being laid off and losing their livelihoods recently. As a team at Rocket, an AI enhanced recruiting agency, we saw this impact firsthand. Seeing spreadsheet after spreadsheet of impacted employees we began asking affected employees and recruiters alike: “How can we help you during this time of uncertainty?”
It was clear that over the last few weeks, the sheer volume of layoff spreadsheets became overwhelming for recruiters to browse through and effectively use.
That insight drove us to build Parachute — our first step towards helping those recently impacted by downsizing events. Using Parachute, you can access the largest list of quality candidates all in one place with the ability to easily filter by every attribute imaginable.
We hope you can find it useful if you are:
A) Hiring - Browse the list to easily source talent
B) Recently affected by a layoff - Please feel free to add yourself
C) Wanting to help your former team - We can help you gather the information you need to build your list and give it visibility
Please let us know what you think. We are just getting started but want to keep improving this as long as it continues to deliver value.
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How are you protecting the PII (personally identifiable info) of the people on the list? With all the email addresses so publicly shared, I'd be concerned about making these job seekers an easy target for spammers & scammers.
@eva_nazarewicz Thank you for the important question. We share the email address of the impacted candidates [that they themselves have volunteered] to make it easy for recruiters and hiring managers to reach out to the candidates quickly! We considered only allowing recruiters and hiring managers to access the LinkedIn profile and using LinkedIn Inmails or other 3rd party services from there to reach out to the candidates but our conversations with recruiters led us to believe that there was real friction in doing so (for example, LinkedIn Inmails are pretty expensive and finding personal emails is a challenge).
Our conversations with many impacted candidates led us to believe that this is a reasonable use case for the moment since the potential positive impact (get a new role quickly) outweighs the very real downside of sharing the email address. If we see potential abuse of the platform, we can add a signup flow before being able to access the email addresses.
I have a number of friends who got laid off and I know that something like this will be super helpful for them. This is really cool, thanks for creating!
@lnchoi Glad you think it will help, please have them reach out and let us know if they have any feedback. We also offer free career coaching sessions in case they may want some help getting back in the mindset of interviewing again.
This product is exactly what we need now. This pandemic has affected so many people. It's great to see folks coming together to help each other out. Thanks for building this!
@ayyar Thank you Kartik! This is a great idea. I'll circle back with the team about it 👍
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Great to see a product that not only helps growing businesses, but also mitigates risk for employees joining startups! Excited to try this out for recruiting. :)
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