If Cupid shot arrows, the Guru creates great professional opportunities. Starting today there is a new application with an ambitious but possible promise: trigger the spark between company and candidate for perfect and lasting compatibility.
Thanks to the mix between a sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithm, data and the inevitable human touch, the platform MatchGuru aims to find the most compatible match possible in the personnel search and selection processes.
But what is it? “MatchGuru means mathematically perfect matches between talents and companies. Our vision is based on the balance between the effectiveness of technological solutions and the enhancement of the person. We were created to optimize, speed up and make personnel search and selection processes more efficient, but never to the detriment of the richness of human experiences”, the founders tell us Marco Laino e Claudio Vaccaro.
The MatchGuru startup offers an unprecedented personnel search and selection service, ensuring the right fit between companies and talents in the technological, engineering and digital fields. It all works with the simplicity of a dating app, where innovation embraces human connection.
It is a platform in step with the times that optimizes the attraction and selection steps, where the proprietary technologies and AI that automate the processes are combined with the human element, in which the team’s skills offer personalized support making it more the process of intercepting talent is fluid, reducing errors, cutting times by up to 60% and costs by around 40%. “All this translates into job hirings that can be completed in less than fifteen days, instead of forty-five.”
MatchGuru, recruiting that works like a dating app
Founded in Naples in 2024, the MatchGuru startup was born from the intuition and experience of the two founders: Marco Laino (CEO), with approximately 12 years of activity in the recruiting sector at the main staffing companies, e Claudio Vaccaro (Venture Builder and CMO), serial entrepreneur and venture builder with fifteen years of experience in online marketing and among the founders of Epicode, a leading tech school in Italy.
How did the idea come about? “I wanted to hire Marco as sales director of Epicode (the startup I founded in 2020), but Marco said no. This intrigued me, so I called him back a few months later telling him about some of my frustrations and innovative ideas on the topic of recruiting, which he fully shared – the co-founder of. tells us Claudio Vaccaro – . From that conversation I understood that Marco wanted to be an entrepreneur, just like me, and so we became partners.”
What frustration was he talking about? “The frustration concerned a chronic slowness in the search for personnel in the IT sector, certainly due to the lack of difficult-to-find technical profiles, but also to a still manual process made up of advertisements and CVs in PDF sent via e-mail. CVs and announcements that do not contain the essential information for talents and companies to “choose each other”. And which force the Human Resources departments, often undersized, to do a lot of skimming work and many useless interviews that are not successful. Hence the idea of creating MatchGuru”
The startup presents itself as a research partner that enables companies to concentrate your search on a single platform where they only appear candidates from the digital, technology and engineering sectors whose skills have already been validated, reducing the time needed to screen the profiles, from junior to senior, and the first interviews. THE candidateson the other hand, can find the best opportunity to start or enhance their careers by only participating in interviews for positions that are truly similar and in line with expectations and skills, avoiding frustration and waste of time.
How the platform works
Just like an online dating app, the MatchGuru platform presents itself as a neat source of talent who can create their own profile: the “talent card” which overcomes the static nature of the CV and helps recruiters and companies to quickly view all the necessary information.
MatchGuru professionals also take care of enriching each profile with video presentations and technical tests, specially prepared to validate the skills, role, professionalism and experience of each candidate. Thanks to this unprecedented process developed by MatchGuru, Artificial Intelligence algorithms calculate the “match score”, which evaluates the percentage of affinity between company and candidate, ensuring the right compatibility of skills, expectations, aspirations and values. The cross-referenced profiles are then proposed in real time to companies via e-mail. “Our AI gradually “learns” and proposes profiles that are increasingly similar to the company’s research.”
Thanks to proprietary technologies and the vertical skills of the team, MatchGuru guarantees advanced solutions capable of accelerating recruiting processes by drastically reducing time, costs and errors in the selection of qualified personnel. A modern application, in step with the times that aims to propose the right meeting favorably lasting working relationships. Seeing is believing.