BestTop Career, at the booth in Tech in Asia’s Bootstrap Alley.
As a talent-mapping platform, we felt that our concept resonated with BestTop’s tagline of “Customised Career Advice”, so we approached the bespectacled Founder, and CEO of BestTop, to find out more.
“BestTop is a platform to facilitate the process of people looking to connect industry mentors. You can select the mentor that you’re interested in, and talk to them. You pay them hourly rates, depending on the mentor,” the CEO explained. The platform offers two main services: Individual Career Coaching and Group Sharing Session; the former allows students to receive one-to-one coaching with their mentor, and the latter works as a networking group for students of similar goals, with one mentor.
The one-and-a-half-year-old company is made up of two full-timers and two part-timers. The former being none other than the two founders, of course. “My co-founder mostly manages the financing, and I handle everything else,” he shared. As they are still relatively young, they are not able to afford full-timers, so the founders enlisted the help of their friends as part-timers. “You have to have the passion, and be reliable. Personally, I prefer reliability over competence. In young start ups, you have to literally do everything. Everything is on-the-job training and everything is a learning process, so, the person must be willing to learn,” he explained.
The company is looking for summer interns. “For us, we have our platform. Our user base is mostly students and they are looking for jobs. We also have our social media channels, so looking for candidates is not really a problem for us.”
Credit: Tech in Asia. https://www.techinasia.com/talk/asian-startups-hiring-practices-early-on
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