Dating Site eHarmony Wants To Help You Find A Job
Having already gotten down the whole matchmaking thing for dating, eHarmony is now applying its skills to a new field: careers.
According to MarketWatch, eHarmony is getting ready to roll out a new service called "Elevated Careers by eHarmony" this December. The site will match job seekers up with employers with the goal being to find its users long-term positions that actually suit them.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics claims that the typical American employee only lasts 4.6 years at a job, and eHarmony wants to lengthen that average. The company has been working on a solution for the last three years, according to its founder and CEO Neil Clark Warren.
A 2012 survey by Harris Interactive found that eHarmony had led to 600,000 marriages since starting in 2000, with a divorce rate of 3.8%. And now Warren wants to spread those kinds of positive results into the career world.
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"If we can do that for jobs, we will save companies enormous amounts of money, and save the person a lot of strain and stress, too," Warren told MarketWatch.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And not only that, but job stress can often carry over into family life adding tension to a relationship. Warren believes that by helping ensure success and happiness in a user's work life, eHarmony can actually benefit a user's romantic life as well.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">eHarmony isn't the first to notice a link between work and love. An app called LinkedUp offers a matchmaking service similar to Tinder, but instead of syncing with Facebook, it pulls from LinkedIn. The idea is that information from LinkedIn can be more useful when searching for love.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Flipping that equation around, eHarmony is pulling from what it's learned about love and applying that to careers.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We reached out to eHarmony for more information on Elevated Careers and will update when we hear back.</span>
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