HireMatch – the First-Ever Blockchain-Driven Recruitment Platform – Wins IBM Blockchain Contest to Crowdsource COVID-19 Solutions

To strive to be the “world’s first” at anything takes guts, uncommon expertise and the kind of innovative mindset that leads to positive change. It also doesn’t hurt if you have recognition and supporting tools from IBM. HireMatch, which is currently in its beta phase, has all of that.

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This week, the company, which is the world’s first blockchain recruitment platform, received word that it is the winner of IBM’s blockchain contest to crowdsource COVID-19 solutions. HireMatch concepted a blockchain solution to help combat the impacts of back-to-work issues related to COVID-19. As the winning entry, it will receive a variety of supports from IBM to help build out and promote its solution.

Best-in-class tools. These include:

Six months of IBM Blockchain Platform SaaS
Six months IBM Cloud to build out your solution
Six months Red Hat OpenShift
Six months Red Hat CodeReady workspaces.
Joint promotion of our solution

“We are thrilled to receive not only valuable computing resources from IBM but to, as importantly, have its vote of confidence in our product. We can now advance development of our market-ready blockchain network which can be deployed securely onto any cloud,” said Armando Pantoja, co-founder and CIO, HireMatch. “This honor is especially meaningful as it allows us to play a role in supporting businesses in building effective teams in the face of a pandemic that has severely affected how workplaces function globally,” added Pantoja. “We believe in the power of the blockchain to help address challenges like those presented by COVID-19 and know it allows for creation of even more efficient processes and programs.”

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