eHarmony To Launch Job Matching Site 'Elevated Careers'

Trending News: This Online Dating Site Wants To Match You With The Boss Of Your Dreams

Joel Balsam

March 12, 2016

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Why Is This Important?

Because could this be the end of tedious job searching?

Long Story Short

eHarmony is using its methods for online dating to match you with the perfect boss and career.

Long Story

Are you looking for love — with (not at) your job? eHarmony has been brewing up a site that could, ideally, do away with the tedious job search process and set you and that perfect career on a path to pure bliss.

Elevated Careers by eHarmony will use data based on your skills, background and personality to match you with a job and a boss that you'll actually be happy with. Considering that nearly 70% of American workers are unhappy with their jobs, that's a tall order — but the new site is hoping to use its success in matching couples to create flawless job hookups.

"We’ve done really well with matching people for long-term relationships. We think no one has done as much matching of personalities as we have, and we have very specific ideas about how we can be a successful participant in [the careers] space," eHarmony CEO Neil Clark Warren told Business Insider in 2014. "We think we can do it better than some of the other companies like Monster and LinkedIn."

eHarmony says that as many as 75% of those unhappy with their jobs say it's because they don't like their boss, so the site plans to match you with a boss that you can get along with and who stands for the same principals. On the flip side of the coin, bosses and companies won't need to waste so much time flipping through resume after resume to find their ideal candidate — most of the work will already be done for them.

“Instead of sending companies thousands of resumes, we want to give you a daily [list] of candidates who match with your company—not just with the jobs and skills area, but with company culture, work values and knowledge," said Dan Erickson, director of special projects and general manager of Elevated Careers, to Society For Human Resource Management online in 2014.

eHarmony has certainly talked up a good game on this (imagine how revolutionary online dating has been to relationships, how big could this be?), but it's been all talk over the past couple years. Soon however, we'll finally get to give it a try when it goes live on April 1.