San Francisco – July 10, 2014 – SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that it will drive recruiting and hiring for BlaBlaCar, the world’s largest long-distance ride-sharing network. Paris-based BlaBlaCar recently raised a $100M Series C funding round led by Index Ventures and will use SmartRecruiters’ cloud hiring platform to increase its global workforce. The key reason BlaBlaCar chose SmartRecruiters is the platform’s ability to let hiring managers source candidates across many countries who speak multiple languages.
BlaBlaCar will use the SmartRecruiters platform to centralize its entire hiring process, from attracting to engaging to closing candidates. SmartRecruiters’ built-in social integration will let BlaBlaCar’s hiring managers draw upon one another’s social networks to source applicants in the countries the company is targeting for expansion – including additional European nations as well as Brazil, Turkey and India.
The platform will also power BlaBlaCar’s careers section on its corporate Facebook page, letting the company turn its one million fans into a talent pool at click’s reach. Whether through the SmartRecruiters web-based or mobile app, hiring managers will be able to engage with applicants in languages such as English, French, Spanish, Polish, German, Swedish and Mandarin. In addition, SmartRecruiters’ analytics let BlaBlaCar continuously track its candidate pipeline and measure the success of its hiring strategy.
BlaBlaCar is a long-distance ride-sharing community that connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers making the same journey, so they can travel together and share the costs. Each passenger makes a contribution for their seat, and drivers cover their motoring costs but do not make a profit. Every month, more than 1 million BlaBlaCar members share journeys of around 200 miles. The web and mobile platform are engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with full member profiles and even a preference for members to specify how chatty they are, from “Bla” and “BlaBla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. For more information visit http://blablacar.com.