Upwardly Mobile Joins Forces With Robert Half International to Help Job Seekers Search Smarter
New Tools and Content Will Help Give UpMo Users and Robert Half Candidates a Competitive Edge in this Difficult Employment Climate
Upwardly Mobile (UpMo) today announced a strategic alliance with Robert Half International (NYSE: RHI). Both companies recognize that job losses stemming from economic instability have displaced many outstanding professionals. This collaboration is designed to help job seekers by combining the wealth of content and “personal touch” experience from Robert Half’s long history of staffing and placement services with Upwardly Mobile’s innovative tools, technology and resources to help highly skilled professionals manage and succeed in their careers.
According to recently released unemployment data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are nearly six unemployed workers for every job opening, and the unemployment rate has reached 9.5 percent. These figures underscore the need for professionals to be able to respond quickly when presented with either an unexpected job loss or, on a more positive note, an attractive new career opportunity.
“People often overestimate how prepared they are to showcase their skills and experience to hiring managers,” said Reesa Staten, senior vice president and director of workplace research at Robert Half International. “By working with UpMo, we’ll be able to provide job seekers with a range of valuable online and offline tools and resources that can help them promote themselves to potential employers and advance their careers.”
As part of the alliance, Robert Half will provide a portfolio of customized resources through the UpMo service to help professionals prepare for the job hunt including career advice articles, white papers and other timely research. In addition, UpMo and Robert Half are collaborating on a “Job-Hunt Readiness Evaluator,” an advanced assessment tool currently in beta that measures how prepared users are to search for and land a job in the next 90 days. The new tool is scheduled for a late summer release. Similar to UpMo’s Network Readiness Evaluator, the Job-Hunt Readiness Evaluator asks UpMo users fewer than 25 questions to help them assess their unique career perspective, behavioral traits, skills and network. UpMo leverages its deep scientific base by comparing this information with elite professionals, industry benchmarks and millions of data points to assess how ready users are to land a job in today’s market. The output is a valuable report that illuminates users’ job-hunt readiness via an updatable score and realistic, next-step guidance professionals can use to help boost their chances of landing a job faster.
“UpMo is committed to partnering with forward-looking companies and building the right tools to help people be empowered, knowledgeable and successful throughout their careers,” said Promise Phelon, CEO of UpMo. “Our strategic alliance with Robert Half allows us to combine our cutting-edge technology, scientific data and service with their comprehensive resources and career knowledge to help professionals succeed in their careers.”
About UpMo
Founded in 2008, Upwardly Mobile, Inc. is a privately-held company committed to taking on the difficult challenges that help people appreciate their most valuable asset — their career. UpMo.com’s always-on solution is an intelligent, personalized career service that uses expert insights and patent-pending scientific tools to empower business professionals and job seekers to confidently get the job they want faster and stay ahead in their career. For more information, visit the website http://www.UpMo.com
Upwardly Mobile is located at Palo Alto’s renowned 165 University Avenue, a historic Silicon Valley office building that once housed Google, PayPal, Logitech and several other successful tech companies.
About Robert Half International
Founded in 1948, Robert Half International Inc., the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm, is a recognized leader in professional consulting and staffing services. The company’s specialized staffing divisions include Accountemps, Robert Half Finance & Accounting and Robert Half Management Resources, for temporary, full-time and project professionals, respectively, in the fields of accounting and finance; OfficeTeam, for highly skilled temporary administrative support personnel; Robert Half Technology, for information technology professionals; Robert Half Legal, for legal personnel, and The Creative Group, for creative, advertising, marketing and web design professionals.
Robert Half International has staffing and consulting operations in more than 400 locations worldwide.
