Drafted uses AI and video resumes to help early-career professionals land jobs

Summary

As the job market continues to get more competitive, it’s taking months for new grads to land employment, with many settling for roles that don’t align with their goals. To address this problem, Drafted, a new startup emerging from stealth, has built a jobs platform for students and early-career professionals, a subset of people who Drafted thinks is ignored by services like LinkedIn, Handshake, and Indeed. Drafted uses AI and video resumes to match candidates with jobs, going beyond the typical keyword-based approach used by most recruiters and job platforms. Drafted has partnered with over 3,500 companies looking to hire new talent. These companies range from startups to Fortune 500 companies, including numerous Y Combinator startups, as well as Google, Amazon, and DoorDash. The startup has partnered with top schools including UCLA, University of Miami, University of Chicago, Georgetown University, and others to onboard students and young professionals looking to land internships and jobs. The platform was created by two-time founder Andrew Kozlovski and former Amazon software engineer Rodrigo Pecchio, who met during their time studying at USC. Kozlovski founded Brainz Power, a company that sells a supplement formulated with natural ingredients designed to support brain health, in his freshman year to pay his way through university. While the business was able to bring in between $10,000 and $30,000 in revenue per month, Kozlovski wanted to move beyond the supplement space and do something that affected people’s lives in other ways. Image Credits:Drafted “I started consulting for a few different startups, including Y Combinator startups on the growth side, and I was able to get in behind the scenes of how businesses are built in tech, which was really interesting for me personally,” Kozlovski told TechCrunch. “But that’s where I eventually came to the idea of how broken the job market is for startups that are hiring and also for entry-level talent that is looking ...