The Hired Labs team is committed to helping Veterans find meaningful employment. Veterans experience underemployment more often than their peers and face unique challenges when it comes to translating their experience into terms that corporate America can understand.
Co-founders, Alan Kumar and Jeff Stock, totally get it. Jeff, a Marine Corps Veteran, was able to make a successful career change thanks to Alan's open-mindedness and willingness to see the value of his transferable skills. Through their own lived experience, Alan and Jeff know what it takes to make relevant military experience understandable to non-vet hiring managers and recruiters.
We offer high-touch job placement services and coding bootcamp for Vets, and training for non-Veteran hiring teams. Our goal is to reframe the conversation around preconceived notions of an ideal candidate and make it easier for Veterans to switch their code to better match that of hiring teams. We're a small team of passionate people who are committed to helping Veterans find meaningful employment.
Leadership
Jeff, a US Marine Corps Veteran, served for nearly a decade as an interpreter and intelligence collector in the Former Soviet Union, Europe, and the Middle East. He led a team of signals intelligence collectors in and around Fallujah, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) II & III, then served as an interpreter for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). After completing his service, Jeff earned a B.A. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley, and then went on to build a successful career in tech creating and leading data analysis and operations teams.
Jeff Stock
Co-Founder/CEO
Passionate about helping Veterans gain confidence in their abilities and express themselves effectively in environments where Veterans are often misunderstood, Jeff co-founded Hired Labs where he leverages his experience in helping people from diverse backgrounds navigate the complexities of communication.
Alan Kumar
Co-Founder/Secretary
Alan is a seasoned talent acquisition professional, having spent time leading contingent workforce programs at Dolby Laboratories, Upwork, and Apple Inc. Throughout his professional career, Alan has specialized experience within agency, startup, and Fortune 5 environments around staff augmentation, gig economy and distributed teams and platform-led solutions.
Alan’s dedication to combating underemployment comes from seeing directly how it has affected friends, family, and candidates he has worked with. The negative impacts financially and personally are what we hope to combat with HiredLabs through our experience and providing enablement and education solutions to previously enlisted veterans and corporate America.