Headhunting 2.0: NotchUp
PALM DESERT, Calif.--NotchUp wants to pay people to take job interviews.
In lieu of job boards and nagging phone calls from recruitment agencies, those in the market for a job or career change can put a price tag on their availability to talk to prospective employers. The company is making its official debut at Demo 2008 on Tuesday.
NotchUp membership is currently invitation only or by application. It works like this: Companies looking for employees can offer a meeting price to a candidate, typically between $300 and $600. Candidates are pre-screened by NotchUp to ensure they are serious about taking the meeting--and not just using the service as an extra source of income. Once a price is agreed upon, NotchUp puts the two parties in contact to arrange the meeting. If the candidate follows through on the meeting, he or she gets paid.
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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
CEO
www.TalentSpring.com
We will be soon launching a Technical Screening Service which we are aiming for the hiring managers across Corporate America . The idea is to take some pressure out of the hiring manager (who's real job is not hiring). We will take the ownership of filtering the candidates. In other words, our representative(s) take the interview and give a report report on the technology skills of the candidate. During the technical interview we will rate other skills like communication etc.
Our interviews are real world technical architects, working in IT field for more than 10 years. That makes a huge difference. "We will help you to hire the RIGHT talent" - That is our motto.
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Rani
Vice President,
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- by OliviaBlack April 17, 2008 7:38 AM PDT
- You gotta love some options. There?s another site out there that?s doing the basic same thing, www.applicanttree.com. It?s a much better deal for the businesses doing the hiring, and a lot less hassle for payment. I don?t know if I can convince the boss on either of these two deals, he?s a bit wary of anything new and he?s just now warming up to Monster, but I don?t see the harm in using either service.
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