The Social Community Empowering A New Technology Of Entrepreneurs

When the world shut down in March 2020 and folks had been caught at dwelling for months, many used the expertise to rethink their lives and their jobs and begin on the lookout for alternatives to create their very own companies.

On the identical time, a brand new social community was launched, particularly geared toward individuals who had been trying to take management of their working lives for the primary time. In simply two years beBee has seen over 15 million freelancers and entrepreneurial job seekers join worldwide, a lot of who’ve by no means been on a work-related social community earlier than. Over 1.5 million of these customers are primarily based within the U.Ok., a determine anticipated to succeed in 4 million by the top of 2023.

Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, beBee was cofounded by CEO Javier Cámara and CMO Rafael Garcia. Throughout lockdown, the pair envisaged the creation of a social community that may carry collectively a variety {of professional} alternatives that addressed each provide and demand; freelancers, professionals providing native companies and entrepreneurial job seekers, in addition to these in want of a selected service.

The pandemic grew to become a catalyst for the emergence of a brand new technology of entrepreneurs, eager to make up for misplaced time and understand long-held ambitions of changing into their very own boss. Customers of the community hail from a various vary of professions and business sectors, from expertise and design to drugs and legislation.

“They could possibly be a job seeker, taking a extra proactive strategy to securing employment in an organization of their selecting, or a latest graduate, who in impact is saying: ‘That is me, what I can give you. Now inform me what you may provide me’,” says Cámara. “Or they could have just lately retired however have to earn some more money to assist them via the price of dwelling disaster affecting so many individuals proper now. Employers additionally now perceive their obligation to enhance working relationships with their distant employees, which is creating happier conditions for all events concerned.”

The community was launched in 2020, with Cámara utilizing his background in expertise to deal with the product and technical facet, and digital advertising skilled Garcia taking care of advertising and gross sales.

The enterprise additionally had the assist of profitable on-line entrepreneur Juan Imaz, who pioneered the primary webmail within the Spanish language, Mixmail, and is the principle investor in beBee. “Now we have had 100% assist from him,” says Cámara. “We additionally had the assistance of a number of angel buyers, and in whole, we obtained an preliminary funding of €3 million.”

What units beBee other than different job portals and profession platforms, says Cámara, is that it focuses on the candidate slightly than the corporate and the job. Lots of those that have registered should not current on LinkedIn.

“As somebody who offers a service, you may create an genuine profile of your self that goes means past the CV; an genuine illustration of who you’re, your expertise and your pursuits,” he says. “You may weblog and interact with different customers, and spotlight precisely what you may carry to any given position whereas concurrently creating enterprise relationships the place your expertise and persona traits are in excessive demand.”

The corporate now has a crew of 30 and is accessible in over 50 international locations, with the biggest variety of registered professionals primarily based within the U.S., U.Ok., Brazil, Spain, Japan, France, Canada and Germany. The variety of customers is anticipated to succeed in 30 million worldwide by the top of 2023, and Cámara says the aim now’s to grow to be the worldwide ‘go to’ reference website for professionals.

“This isn’t a company website, however a real social community for the brand new technology of freelancers and entrepreneurial job-seekers who’re taking possession of their private model on a scale by no means seen earlier than,” he says. “However we additionally know that actual success comes via humility and laborious work, so our basic intention is to proceed to make beBee an unbelievable expertise for all customers. Proper now, we’re driving the wave of the Nice Resignation, notably within the U.S. and U.Ok. and I can’t wait to see what the longer term holds.”