Antonio Aleman is the CEO and co-founder of Hyumeet (How You Meet), an online human resources company based in Quebec City. The app takes an innovative “soft skills” approach to hiring, highlighting motivation, mindset, and beliefs over technical knowledge or work experience. Antonio was born in Mexico and immigrated with his family to Canada 12 years ago, lifting them out of poverty.
In this episode, Antonio Aleman explains why Hyumeet takes its soft skills approach to hiring, delves into the challenges of staying ahead of the competition, and discusses the risks you’ll need to take if you pursue entrepreneurship.
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Podcast highlights:
- Antonio has always been an entrepreneur even if he didn’t realize it at the time. As a kid he bought, repaired and resold used cell phones to his friends.
- Hyumeet differs from other recruitment services in that it focuses on soft skills (motivation and personality traits) rather than hard ones (education, work experience, credentials, etc.).
- To ensure Hyumeet stays on the cutting edge, they rely on extensive research and development as well as data science.
- Angel investors were essential in getting Hyumeet off the ground.
- One of the major challenges hiring people in Quebec is that the province currently has more jobs than people to work them, so Hyumeet needs to be flexible and meet prospective employee demands.
- While he’s not sure if he’ll still be with Hyumeet in five years, Antonio still plans on being an entrepreneur regardless.
- In the next few years, he would like Hyumeet to be valued at $4 or even $25 million.
- Antonio acknowledges that the bigger Hyumeet gets, the more dangerous it is if a competitor effectively emulates their technology.
- While he has invested the vast majority of his money into his own company, Antonio also buys cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
- Antonio really admires his father, who was able to bring his family out of poverty in Mexico.
- An entrepreneur’s life isn’t easy, and if you would like to pursue that line of work you’re going to have to get used to ups and downs. And if you do earn a profit, don’t go overboard and spend too much.
Quotes:
“Our mobile app is anonymous so really all Canadians, all people can search for jobs without being seen by anyone.”
“And so that’s where we are, is that our process is really short, that we can get them together, we can match companies and people with a lot of simplicity in just a couple minutes.”
“They’re not just looking for the money, they’re looking to have flexible hours.”
“I know that it’s important to be protected and to know, so have our money for the future. But right now I think it’s the time to be risky.”
“Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down and sometimes it’s hard.”
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