“Bumble has facilitated over 350 million women-led first moves and had over 3 billion messages sent. We designed Bumble to be a platform that encourages positive, impactful interactions in love, friendship, and now business,” the company said in an online statement Monday.
But people won’t have to put their resume on their online dating profile, as the new product, Bumble Bizz, will be a separate experience within the app. It will be available in the U.S., Canada, U.K., France and Germany, and will use the same swiping left and right technique as the dating app.
To use Bumble Bizz, users upload a photo so their identity can be verified, before adding images of their portfolio and writing a professional bio.
Bumble is a high-engagement app: the company claims that users spend an average of 90 minutes a day on it. For comparison, people spend more than 50 minutes a day on Facebook and Instagram combined, according to Facebook’s 2016 Q1 earnings.
