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January 28, 2008 | Comments: (0)
Job hunt 2.0: Get paid to be interviewed
IT workers with one eye on the want ads now have a means for making their passive job search lucrative -- by getting paid to interview with potential poaching organizations.
Seeking to provide employers with improved hiring options, startup NotchUp offers passive job-seekers the ability to set their own headhunting price at which they would agree to be interviewed.
The proposed online recruitment marketplace allows individuals to create a profile, tap the NotchUp calculator to evaluate the marketability of their skills, and put their time up for auction to employers seeking a less work-desperate pool of applicants without tapping recruiters.
For the 41 percent of IT workers passively seeking a new gig, according to the InfoWorld Compensation Survey, NotchUp could very well be a hit. Rather than investing in pounding the pavement, they can simply sit back and wait for companies to pay them to talk new horizons.
The service is geared directly toward organizations strapped to fill key positions for want of highly qualified candidates, who are more often than not already under contract elsewhere. Given that the inability to fill open spots is this year's top staffing concern of IT organizations, according to the InfoWorld Compensation Survey, the marketplace, if successful, could prove worthwhile for hiring managers.
Similar to eBay and other such reputation-enabled marketplaces, NotchUp offers feedback capabilities to ensure hiring organizations that those cashing in on their potential interview bid will in fact be seriously open to new opportunities when talked to. The service provides granular candidate search capabilities and, according to the Web site, a 100 percent money back guarantee on all interviews.
For those putting their chops up for interview auction, the service includes privacy assurances. Prospective employers must make an offer to interview you before your contact details are revealed. More to the point, the system blocks your profile from your current employer, allowing you to sniff out new opportunities on the DL.
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Posted by Jason Snyder on January 28, 2008 01:14 PM
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TalentSpring (my company), JobFox, and ItzBig are three companies working on making hiring more efficient. Now NotchUp is also doing some interesting things in this space.
The first three are working on advanced ways to job seekers to their ideal job opening. And employers to their ideal job candidate.
TalentSpring goes beyond that to rank resumes within an industry. We do this to benefit Job Seekers by getting the attention of employees. Job seekers rank well in areas they are passionate about and where they have invested in their work experience and education.
Since job seekers will rank well in areas they are interested in, we can bring large numbers of employers back to that job seeker. Specifically, we email a wide range of employers of job types that the job seeker considers ideal. This way the job seeker wins because they have their ideal types of employers actively listening to them. (Ranking resumes gives us the power to accomplish this)
Bryan Starbuck
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www.TalentSpring.com
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