Comments on: TalentSpring Aims To Disrupt Resume Marketplace

By: Frico

Frico — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:55:36 +0000

Are they dead yet???

By: TalentSpring « Confessions of a Recruiting Newbie

TalentSpring « Confessions of a Recruiting Newbie — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:40:32 +0000

[...] because there are so many fake records, and so few real records. If you’re going to do a media blitz, get out to your database and clean it up so that people can see the real benefits of the [...]

By: Sad 2.0

Sad 2.0 — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:33:43 +0000

Stupidty prevails. Another day on TechCrunch’s ever worsening content.

By: blah

blah — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:39:36 +0000

“TalentSpring Aims To Disrupt Resume Marketplace” … “disrupt resume”? Is that like rebooting the marketplace?

By: New Digg-like service called Talent Spring may end job portals? « NI-Limits Blog

Sun, 20 May 2007 05:28:21 +0000

[...] to come back online and allow us to take a look, but for now, you’’ll need to settle for the TechCrunch [...]

By: Web Things Considered » How to blow your launch

Web Things Considered » How to blow your launch — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:27:17 +0000

[...] not sure if TechCrunch jumped the gun, but boy is TalentSpring awful. I noticed that TalentSpring is a northwest company (Seattle), which [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Weekend Reader «

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Weekend Reader « — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:05:53 +0000

[...] Instead of subjecting yourself to that ranking — and having to rank resumes yourself — why not use a blog as your resume? [TalentSpring via TechCrunch] [...]

By: Venture Itch

Venture Itch — Sat, 19 May 2007 07:46:14 +0000

I wonder if TalentSpring will also give birth to Digg-styled mafia of influential and corrupted users controlling top of the page?

By: Venture Itch

Venture Itch — Sat, 19 May 2007 07:44:07 +0000

Talent Spring - new platform for Digg-styled mafia of resume posting…

The online job search market, estimated at about $6 billion and dominated by 500 pound gorrillas such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder and Yahoo’s HotJobs, leaves enough space for newcomers. SimplyHired and Jobster has already captured their share o…

By: Bryan Starbuck

Bryan Starbuck — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:02:12 +0000

Thanks everyone for their feedback.

You can watch for updates on our blog at http://blog.TalentSpring.com.

By: christian Anderson

christian Anderson — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:52:37 +0000

New ideas are good for the industry; keep us all on our toes, and develop new technology to help further careers and make great hires.

Best of luck!

Christian Anderson
Jobster

By: Andrew Boardman

Andrew Boardman — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:47:43 +0000

Thank you, Andy (comment #11) for identifying the Google Analytics problem, it turns out that was the major perf issue for the site.

I just deployed a fix and things seem a lot faster. This was an engineering issue and not any servers being overwhelmed by TC traffic (in fact so far the servers are handling it quite well).

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:21:24 +0000

Very easy to cheat the system.Concept wont work.

If this concept is successful, and recruiters really use the site, then I can easily bring my resume to top by spending few bucks.*hint* cheap outsourcing.

problem with rating system is - if the incentives are too big (here it is big as it is realated to job), cheating will happen.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:52:36 +0000

Patrick, [Comment# 45]

I completely agree with you. Who designed this, pardon my language, shit? They load Google Analytics urchin.js file hundreds of times!

Check this snapshot.

http://img515.imageshack.us/im.....inguo9.jpg

[BTW, I had to hit STOP before the page kills my browser.]

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:52:16 +0000

I agree with all the comments re who wants to spend time ranking - we all know that passive candidates will not put their resumes out there and they are the most in demand!

By: Nemrut

Nemrut — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:32:15 +0000

Interesting take on the rating system. Aside from privacy concerns, it seems that this svc would simply increase the level of mediocrity among resumes.

I doubt highly qualified candidates would want to reveal their pedigree and competitive edge for public scrutiny. This leaves perhaps a large segment of folks w/avg credentials rating each other.

Unlike Digg, HotorNot where you can’t take back your submission nor improve upon it, this svc would simply facilitate plagiarism on a mass scale where everyone starts to experience the ‘lake wobegone effect’ where everyoe is above avg and good looking.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:27:35 +0000

An interesting idea and one that would probably would weed out the best from a huge selection of candidates. My only concern is about the privacy of the jobseeker. Will people want to submit their resume and have anyone using the internet being able to look at their details and contacts. I’m a recruiter myself and I use resume databases in Monster and HOTELScareers.com but at least the jobseeker knows their resume will only be seen by HR employees and headhunters.

By: David P

David P — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:13:22 +0000

Jack Recruiter as a fellow employer I agree fully. Some categories are just impossible to vote on. Are people voting on others qualifications? Who are competing job seekers to know about qualifications for the job that I have?

By: Basicity

Basicity — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:54:31 +0000

I like their domain name.

By: edward

edward — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:24:40 +0000

Having problems in FF, it is slow and does not tell you exactly what to do. Maybe have a different landing page instead of going straight to results I do not want.

Good idea

By: Basic Thinking Blog » TalentSping: die etwas andere Jobbörse

Basic Thinking Blog » TalentSping: die etwas andere Jobbörse — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:24:27 +0000

[...] auf Jobpostings anwendet, ist irgendwie … ein interessantes Projekt. Nennt sich Talentspring. Techncrunch beschreibt die Funktionsweise. Muss ich mir auch noch in Ruhe ansehen. Grundprinzip: mehr als 12 Bewertungen sind nicht [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:24:18 +0000

who are the clowns who designed this site?? The site doesn’t even load and when it does, it just plain sucks! Why? Because the page layout makes no sense, some monkey went crazy with Scriptaculous. I would yank the site, put in a landing page and go back to the drawing board. While Jobster doesn’t have the so cool voting idea, it has awesome web design. TalentSpring looks like it was designed by high school kids. They also have the nerve to compare it to Zillow and FareCast. Both those sites are in a different league. and whats up with lame marketing terms like “Talent Spring Merit Score” and comparing it to FICO! If FICO was based on my buddy rating me , I would be maxing out credit cards and going to vegas every weekend. Some klutz obviously thought it would be a cool marketing term sipping his triple shot extra hot non fat cappuccino. Social networking is like an epidemic that everyone wants to cash on. Sorry but try as you might, Jobster and TalentSpring can only go so far with the social networking idea. It can only work for sites like myspace, facebook and twitter(common theme there is target audience 10-30 years). Shut down TalentSpring now!

By: Nolan

Nolan — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:54:41 +0000

Do I really want to spend my time looking at résumés from the ubertalented (better than me) folks or the talentless hacks (there are bound to be many) and then watch myself fall somewhere through the cracks in the middle?

Isn’t rejection by the workplaces enough?
Do I need to chance MORE abuse??

By: topazsamos.com

topazsamos.com — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:44:35 +0000

The word “BETA” is in such large font you’d think it’s part of the site name “TALENTSPRINGBETA”.

Just going to the site and you get a “Already logged in” displayed under the page header.

I like that there is a category of jobs that fit under “Managers of Programmers” !

I guess this is to be expected from the Web 2.0 applications are are in a perpetual state of BETA. Thank you Google.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:26:03 +0000

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