By Natalie Andews and Nikki Waller 

A Google Inc. executive has enlisted roughly 100 employers, including Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc., in an effort to find work for campaign staffers left jobless after Election Day.

Laszlo Bock, the search giant's departing human-resources chief, is leading a push to gather résumés from campaign staffers and employees leaving the White House so that employers can consider them for open jobs, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The online résumé bank is among a handful of initiatives to find jobs for people who worked on 2016 presidential campaigns, as well as White House staff who will be seeking other employment in January. Most efforts are focused on Hillary for America staffers, many of whom had planned to continue careers in Washington, D.C., as part of a Clinton administration.

In an email sent to employers and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Bock said he was compiling an online résumé bank for members of the campaign and transition teams, and invited employers to review résumés.

"800 remarkable, civically-minded people lost their jobs" after Election Day, he wrote, an apparent reference to the Clinton campaign, which employed roughly 800 staffers.

Employers who want access to the résumé bank must agree to review all résumés -- 1,300 have been posted so far, mostly from people who worked for Mrs. Clinton's campaign -- against their organization's open jobs, said the person familiar with the matter. The bank is open to workers from all campaigns.

In the email, Mr. Bock urged employers to find a fit for nontraditional candidates, similar to a recruiting team he established at Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., that found roles for "people who were clearly talented but didn't fit a conventional mold."

After campaigns conclude, there is rarely a set path -- especially for the losing side. The winners often go to the White House or form new companies of their own. Teddy Goff, Barack Obama's 2012 campaign digital director, along with a pair of that campaign's tech staffers, founded Precision Strategies, a tech and consulting firm aimed at helping progressive causes. Brad Parscale, digital director for President-elect Donald Trump, is helping with his transition to the White House and is a regular in Trump Tower.

Soon after Mrs. Clinton's defeat, high-level campaign staff mobilized to connect companies interested in recruiting tech staffers, even holding a job fair in Brooklyn, N.Y., with tech companies and staff about to face unemployment. Venture-capital firm Union Square Ventures sent a representative to headquarters the week of the election to recruit tech, web and design staff for its portfolio of companies, which includes Duolingo, a language-learning app, and Clue, a health-tracking app.

"You rarely find a large talent pool like that all available at the same time," said partner Fred Wilson of the Clinton workers. "These are people who dropped what they were doing and joined a cause. That speaks to who they are and what they value."

Google confirmed that it sent staff to the fair, as did Teachers Pay Teachers, a web community for educators. Hustle, a text-messaging app that works with progressive groups and sent millions of texts for the campaign, pitched employees via video call, co-founder Roddy Lindsay said.

About 45 former tech staff from Mrs. Clinton's campaign team visited the New York Times on Nov. 17 for a networking event with members of the paper's tech and recruiting teams, according to a spokeswoman for the paper.

Logan Anderson worked for the Clinton campaign's digital content team after posting a photo to Twitter that showed the campaign logo on her graduation mortar board the day before leaving Louisiana State University.

The 23-year-old started job hunting after the election, unsure where she will head next. Her inbox has been full of job listings and offers of introductions and résumé help from former co-workers, she said.

"There have been small moments that make me feel really confident that this team of people is working on my behalf."

Write to Natalie Andrews at Natalie.Andrews@wsj.com and Nikki Waller at Nikki.Waller@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

December 16, 2016 15:55 ET (20:55 GMT)

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