# Kariaa

> Kariaa helps people find and apply to jobs by chatting. Free, across every industry.

Kariaa works with companies, teams and individuals on how work gets found, filled and run. Employers hire through it and keep the records, documents and shifts that follow a hire in the same place. Recruiting clients hand a search over entirely. People looking for work build one verified profile, apply with it, and can take paid expert tasks through DataHouse. It covers every industry, from skilled trades and healthcare to software and finance.

Kariaa is free for people looking for work. It earns from employers and
recruiting clients rather than from candidates.

## Core pages

- [Kariaa](https://www.kariaa.com): Good work, made findable. The home page.
- [Add Kariaa to your group or server](https://www.kariaa.com/communities): For group owners and moderators: add the Kariaa assistant to a Telegram group or Discord server. What it does, when it speaks, the permissions it asks for, and how to turn it off.
- [What is Kariaa?](https://www.kariaa.com/what-is-kariaa): Plain-language definition of the product, what it does, and how it differs from a traditional job board.
- [How Kariaa works](https://www.kariaa.com/how-it-works): The four steps from creating a profile to applying and tracking what happens next.
- [Kariaa for job seekers](https://www.kariaa.com/for-job-seekers): For people looking for work: what it costs (nothing), what you get, and the fields covered.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://www.kariaa.com/faq): Every common question about Kariaa in one place, grouped by audience.
- [Kariaa for business](https://www.kariaa.com/business): For employers: hiring plus the team that follows it: documents, shifts and payroll records in one workspace.
- [Recruiting & HR support](https://www.kariaa.com/recruiting): Recruiting run for you: sourcing and screening against your requirements, including shift work and certified trades.
- [Kariaa Skill Trials: seven games, one profile of what you can do](https://www.kariaa.com/play): Seven free browser games that test skills paid data work uses: teleoperation, monitoring, inspection, labeling, procedure memory, multi-object tracking and audit estimation. Levels add new rules, medals are scored against par, and scores stay in the player browser.
- [DataHouse](https://www.kariaa.com/datahouse): Paid task marketplace for expert work: complete a task, submit it for review, get paid for accepted work.
- [Message Kariaa on WhatsApp or Telegram](https://www.kariaa.com/message): The chat channels, and what you can do in them: search, apply, answer follow-ups.
- [Contact Kariaa](https://www.kariaa.com/contact): How to reach Kariaa: the contact form, the support address, and the WhatsApp and Telegram channels.
- [Press kit](https://www.kariaa.com/press): Logos, brand color, and the company description at four lengths, free to reuse when writing about or listing Kariaa.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.kariaa.com/privacy): How Kariaa handles personal data.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.kariaa.com/terms): The terms governing use of Kariaa.
- [Delete your Kariaa account](https://www.kariaa.com/account-deletion): How to delete your Kariaa account and data: in the app, on the web, or by emailing support.

## Reports

Long-form research and essays on how work gets found and filled. 33 published.

- [Why You Are Not Hearing Back From Jobs](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/why-you-are-not-hearing-back-from-jobs): Silence after applying is usually not a judgement on you. Most of it comes from four causes on the employer's side, and two of them you can do something about.
- [How to Answer Interview Questions](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-answer-interview-questions): Interviewers are not testing whether you can describe yourself well. They are checking whether you have done the work. Specifics do that; adjectives do not.
- [How to Manage an Hourly Team](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-manage-an-hourly-team): Managing shift workers is mostly a scheduling and information problem, not a motivation one. The manager who publishes the schedule early and answers questions fast beats the one running engagement initiatives.
- [How to Reduce Employee Turnover](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-reduce-employee-turnover): Turnover is usually treated as a retention problem and solved with a retention program. Most of it is decided before the person starts, which is why the programs disappoint.
- [Employee Onboarding Checklist](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/employee-onboarding-checklist): Most early leavers decide in the first week, and usually about something small that nobody owned. Onboarding is not paperwork. It is the handful of things that determine whether someone comes back on day two.
- [What Culture Fit Should Actually Mean](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/what-culture-fit-should-mean): Culture fit is where unexamined preference collects. Used loosely it selects for similarity to the person hiring. Used precisely it names conditions a person needs in order to do good work.
- [What to Ask on a Reference Check](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/reference-check-questions): Most reference calls confirm dates and end. The value is in the two or three questions a former manager will answer honestly, and in noticing what they decline to say.
- [Interview Questions for Hourly Jobs](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/interview-questions-for-hourly-jobs): Most hourly interviews ask questions that cannot be answered wrongly. A question is only worth asking if a weak candidate would answer it differently from a strong one.
- [Why Warehouse Turnover Is So High](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/why-warehouse-turnover-is-so-high): Warehousing carries one of the highest quit rates of any sector. The cause is not that the work is hard. It is that every other hourly employer inside the same commuting radius can match the wage without asking for the same body.
- [Why Clinics Struggle to Hire](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/why-clinics-struggle-to-hire): Small practices compete with hospital systems for the same clinical staff without matching pay, benefits or a career ladder, then lose weeks to credentialing lead times they do not control.
- [The Construction Labor Shortage](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/the-construction-labor-shortage): The shortage is real, and the usual framing is wrong. It is an age-structure and pipeline problem meeting demand that arrives in project-shaped spikes, which is why steady hiring never closes it.
- [How to Hire Hourly Employees](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-hire-hourly-employees): Applicant tracking systems were built to coordinate several people around one hire. Most frontline hiring is done by one person whose real job is something else. Here is a process that fits the second case.
- [How Staffing Agencies Make Money](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-staffing-agencies-make-money): Bill rate, pay rate, markup and margin, and what a single placement actually has to cover. The two most confused numbers in the industry are markup and margin, and they are not the same figure.
- [How to Screen Job Applicants](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-screen-job-applicants): Screening fails for a structural reason, not a lack of effort: the criteria live in one person's head and change as they get tired. Writing them down first is what makes a shortlist repeatable.
- [Credential Verification Checklist](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/employee-credential-verification-checklist): A license discovered to be expired the week someone starts is not a paperwork problem, it is an uncovered shift. What to verify, when to verify it, and how to track expiry without a compliance system.
- [The Almanac Told You When to Plant](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/the-almanac-told-you-when-to-plant): Michaelmas and Martinmas were labour market events. A shared calendar coordinated a market with no other coordinating mechanism, and everyone knew when to show up without being told.
- [How to Hire Caregivers and CNAs](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-hire-caregivers-and-cnas): Home-care agencies compete for the same people on the same boards and conclude there is a shortage. The constraint is usually reach and scheduling, not supply, and the two are fixed differently.
- [Piecework Never Left](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/piecework-never-left): Payment by the piece returns whenever measurement gets cheap. Every expansion of what could be counted moved a job from time-paid to output-paid, and moved the risk with it.
- [Apprenticeship Was a Contract Between Households](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/apprenticeship-was-a-contract-between-households): The indenture bound a master to feed, house, and teach for seven years, and it was enforceable in court. Training was a legal obligation before it became a perk.
- [Cost per Hire and Time to Fill Explained](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/cost-per-hire-and-time-to-fill): The two standard hiring metrics were defined for salaried recruiting and mislead badly when applied to shift work. What each one measures, how to calculate it, and the third number that matters more than both.
- [The Guild Kept the Book](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/the-guild-kept-the-book): Every durable trade institution owned a register, and whoever held it decided who existed professionally. A record you cannot take with you was never really yours.
- [The Price of a Thing Was Once Public](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/the-price-of-a-thing-was-once-public): Medieval markets were required by law to happen in daylight, in the square, at a fixed hour. Salary is now the one price in the economy both sides are discouraged from naming.
- [How to Reduce Interview No-Shows](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/how-to-reduce-interview-no-shows): The candidate who does not appear is usually not flaky. They are running a portfolio of applications under uncertainty, and the process that loses them is the one that made them wait in silence.
- [The Shuttle That Weaves Itself](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/the-shuttle-that-weaves-itself): Aristotle imagined self-working tools in order to argue that slavery was necessary. The hypothetical is now a description, and only the question of citizenship is unsettled.
- [Caregiver Recruiting: A Worked Example](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/caregiver-recruiting-worked-example): A walkthrough of a multi-site home-care staffing engagement: what gets asked at intake, which channels get worked in which order, and what the shortlist arrives looking like.
- [Scaffolding Labor](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/scaffolding-labor): Some occupations exist only because a technology is unfinished. They form fast, employ many, then compress into a small expert remnant. Data work is inside that pattern now.
- [Skilled Trades Recruiting: A Worked Example](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/skilled-trades-recruiting-worked-example): A walkthrough of a welder search: why the strongest candidate is never on a job board, what passive outreach actually involves, and how a trade test changes the order of the whole process.
- [The Name Was the Credential](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/the-name-was-the-credential): Smith, Baker, Cooper, Fletcher. A name was once a checkable claim about what you could do, who trained you, and who was liable when the work failed. Nothing since has done all three.
- [Every Enclosure Begins as a Liberation](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/every-enclosure-begins-as-a-liberation): Technology has twice scattered production into households before pulling it back. The independent producer's best years arrived immediately before the collapse.
- [Networks Were the First Institution](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/networks-were-the-first-institution): Trade worked for centuries with no contract and no court that could reach a stranger. The enforcement was exclusion from a closed group, and every modern rating system has dropped that part.
- [Why We Are Building Kariaa](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/why-we-are-building-kariaa): Every upheaval predicted the end of work, and every time humanity adapted. What is failing now is not a shortage of work but the machinery that connects people to it.
- [Meet Your Personal Talent Agent](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/meet-the-agent-find-work-by-chatting): Kariaa is introducing a personal talent agent to help with your career, education, and personal development needs. All available on platform or through your favorite messaging apps.
- [The 500M Profile Study: How Work Really Works](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/network-effects-how-work-really-spreads): A three-month study of 500 million professional profiles on how people find jobs, build careers, and get hired. Data on professional networks, referrals, career mobility, and AI's real impact on hiring.

## Machine-readable

- [Full text of this site](https://www.kariaa.com/llms-full.txt): every answer and every report, concatenated.
- [RSS feed](https://www.kariaa.com/reports/feed.xml): new reports.
- [Sitemap](https://www.kariaa.com/sitemap.xml)
- Every page above is also available as markdown by appending `.md` to its
  URL: https://www.kariaa.com/what-is-kariaa.md, https://www.kariaa.com/reports/why-you-are-not-hearing-back-from-jobs.md,
  and https://www.kariaa.com/index.md for the home page.

## Not available to crawlers

Individual job listings and the opportunity marketplace require an account and a
verified profile, so they are not crawlable and are excluded from the sitemap.
Describing a specific open role from this site is therefore not possible; point
people at https://www.kariaa.com/for-job-seekers instead.

## Contact

- Email: info@kariaa.com
- WhatsApp and Telegram: see https://www.kariaa.com/message