Comments on: Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You

By: My Thoughts on NotchUp « Amybeth Hale - Research Goddess

My Thoughts on NotchUp « Amybeth Hale - Research Goddess — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:50:06 +0000

[...] brought to my attention: NotchUp. Apparently, it has piqued the interest of several people - both pretty good as in the eyes of Matt Martone of Yahoo! and Eric Schonfeld of TechCrunch and not so good from [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:59:22 +0000

car deals…

Excellent post. Keep it up!…

By: Johnson

Johnson — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:51:09 +0000

In this fast moving wolrd who will have time to prepare and take an interview if you are not looking for a job change?

You can not just take an intyerview for fun as you will get a negative feedback which will affect your score…

I think focusing on active job seekers is important in this market. I recently came accross this website called leapways.com (www.leapways.com). They have some really good interview services. I have contacted them and I was able to schedule an interview with a candidate. Good experience.

Seems like lot of new services aiming Job and career market these days…

Keep it up guys!!

By: dizi

dizi — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:32:35 +0000

Has anyone received an interview offer?

By: dizi izle

dizi izle — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:48:37 +0000

thanks

By: LatinOcean - Marketing and Web Technologies Applied to Talent Management » Blog Archive » sitewatch: notchup

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:09:34 +0000

[...] user experience: clean design (although someone commenting on the techcrunch article reckoned that the layout was a ripoff from google’s grandcentral. uploading your profile from [...]

By: M

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:47:24 +0000

Has anyone received an interview offer? Can anyone share about his/her experience?

By: someuser

someuser — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:21:17 +0000

I sent the following to Notchup’s tech support:
===================================
I’m a registered member and I’ve been trying more then a few times to import my profile (and contacts) from linkedin.
It always fail, and I receive the following error:

* We could not sign in to Linkedin with the below email and password
* Please check both fields and try again

I know that the login details are correct because I’m using them to enter Linkedin successfully.
Is there a problem with the import feature?
Can you please assist?
Thanks
==============================
The auto-reply I got from notchup
==============================
We appreciate your support of our beta program. If your message is
about the LinkedIn import profile/contacts features not working,
please know that we are working on it and plan to release a new
version soon. Thank you for your patience.

If your message is about a different subject, we will respond to you
as soon as possible.

Regards,
NotchUp Customer Support

===============================
Thinking out loud: why did notchup waste my time
letting me try over and over again to import my Linkedin
details, knowing it does not work? A simple note on their
web site will do. This dishonesty right at the beginning is
not a good sign. They of all should know that people’s
time is valuable.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:14:56 +0000

Wow, another way for scam artists to get richer at the expense of “real” job seekers. It’s a good concept but unfortunately companies will be taken advantage of and for those of us who are real job seekers, we are the ones who lose in the long run as this is sure to back fire! I have to agree with a lot of the comments, head hunters are a better way for companies to invest their money to find true “employees”. There are too many virtual worlds existing out there already, this is just another way for someone to reinvent themselves and get rich!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:48:26 +0000

This could be a goer!

By: FutureMan

FutureMan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:16:41 +0000

ous ones. Online recruiting agencies like, Monster, HotJobs etc., have worked well in their heyday, but we’re moving forward now. Technological efforts to streamline the process regarding job recruiting and the hiring process are advancing, whether we’re ready to accept it or not.

Big corporations don’t want to spend big money for low-level talent, as well as high-level talent don’t want to spend countless hours riding the interviewing gerbil wheel. All things being relative, this is just another advancement for us all.

Q. How many of you would have ever figured you’d be using a personal computer as appose to a typewriter? Or a cell phone instead of a rotary dial telephone?

Us humans are always resistant to change. It’s in our nature.

By: Kint verbal

Kint verbal — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:03:25 +0000

dump, do you have that 1M? otherwise, don’t bet money you don’t have.

To the others thinking they will be paid to come to interviews and get free money: this is not for everyone. Not anyone will be called and not without a background check. Fake info is useless in this context. Relax you guys, you’re worth what you’re worth now.

By: dump

dump — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:09:41 +0000

this is the dumbest idea in a long time. what retard really thinks a recruiter/company is going to pay for the honor to interview you? trust me - your time is just not that valuable.

has anyone interviewed and gotten paid thru this site yet? i’ll pay you $1M if this happens.

By: Avoid Notchup

Avoid Notchup — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:26:05 +0000

I sent my application to them and they rejected it, I have been working in IT in many IT positions for 16 years and have been told by many recruitment agencies that I have an impressive work history.

Notchup did not tell me why I failed to make the grade and what they were looking for and where I could improve.

Their reply:

Thank you for your application to NotchUp, the premier recruiting website.

Our network of HR professionals has reviewed your application. While we found your credentials impressive, we unfortunately are unable to offer you membership in NotchUp at this time.

Please feel free to apply again in the future when you have more gained more experience and/or additional skills ”

The ‘gained more experience’ was a nice touch - not.

This is obviously some canned response which makes you feel worse.

Whats made me mad is that they have my Resume data and I cant log back in to delete my profile - I have no idea what they did with my data and where its stored.

They allowed me access to login when I submitted my data so I could upload my details and then promptly deleted my account without my approval when I was rejected - with no warning or information in their email to say they did it.

I think its abit rich that they can suck out data from linkedin and populate their own site (with your permission) - I wonder what Linkedin think about that?

I would stay away from these guys - I am not at all impressed how they treat people and their data.

If you treat all people this way, word will spread on the Internet and it wont take long for a backlash!

By: NotchDOWN

NotchDOWN — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:07:24 +0000

I got an invite and set up a profile. But the site has been so unreliable in the last couple days (server timeouts, Drupal error messages, failure to bring in my LinkedIn profile correctly, etc) that this seems more like an alpha than beta.

By: asi dizisi

asi dizisi — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:08:02 +0000

they can be better

By: Nitin G

Nitin G — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:36:56 +0000

Interesting concept! Can be further extended with features like - candidate rating system (x out of y job offered, x out of y job accepted etc…), certain clauses like - if candidate accepts the offer he/she will give back half or full money he was paid by interviewer so that employer also gets some credit.

By: Chester Holmes

Chester Holmes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:29:49 +0000

The freaking copied the entire Grand Central homepage! Something tells me that this company will crash and burn…especially when you stick all those company logos in the homepage for validation.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:28:19 +0000

Grr. Compare it to LinkedIn’s TOS/Privacy Policy.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:18:41 +0000

I’m floored by the number of people who love/hate the concept but don’t spend a moment of time reading–carefully–the Terms of Service.

Compare it to Googles TOS/Privacy Policy.

There’s a couple of points I think are getting over-looked:

1) You cannot see what your privacy settings might be until you register and agree to the TOS
2) They’re not responsible for what recruiters / third parties do with your resume or email address
3) If you cancel your account it’s “marked as deleted” in their database. Not deleted. Marked as such. Got it? Good.
4) If they sell your information, they’re not responsible for anything that happens to it downstream; the only way you can get off of those mailing lists, etc. is to contact whomever they sell to, and whomever they sell to, and so on and so forth. Plus, those people may all have “cached” versions of your information, so if they get a data snapshot of NU today, you cancel tomorrow and they get a new snapshot and sell it–guess what? Those companies will do a merge to remove duplicates–they’re not going to go out of their way and REMOVE you unless you know how to track them down.

There’s money in the list they’re generating.

5) Yep, it’s easy to use that LinkedIn slurp they’ve got set up for you. And, of course, all of your information that is respected and protected at LinkedIn… Well, different set of rules now.

Pay attention to the TOS and decide if giving up your information is really worth it.

http://www.userglue.com/blog/2.....vacy-down/

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:20:47 +0000

I don’t trust anything that doesn’t give me an opt out from all the spam they’re sending me. I’ll just blackhole their domain on our mail server I guess.

I don’t understand why everyone wants “invites” from this. I’m getting several spams a day from their “users” (apparently, their service imports your existing address book[s] and then spams everyone in it).

One of those Web2.0 “spam everyone and get popular services”.

Stupid and lame.

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:14:45 +0000

Why would people who are in demand and making a good amount of money want to spend a day interviewing for a few hundred dollars? Especially if they aren’t actually interested in moving. For anyone that’s truly a good candidate, they would rather get paid to get HIRED.

That’s where PROSUMES.COM comes in. Better business model, in my humble opinion.

Granted, I helped launch the company but it just makes more sense.

http://WWW.PROSUMES.COM

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:30:00 +0000

Well, I just got a bunch of invites this morning so this must be gaining serious traction with the LinkedIn import feature (checked by default). What was even more fascinating to me was the lineup of companies from contacts that flowed into my inbox as invites. The invite from last week just provided the crushed beta experience but I was actually able to sign in today. However, I did spare my LinkedIn list from blanket solicitation.

By: Sounds good

Sounds good — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:47:05 +0000

I am fairly well known in the field I work at because of a certain FLOSS community I participate in heavily. I am very happy with my current job so it would take a lot from anyone to move me. I totally like this idea and I believe there are many like me — desired but unaccessible. If my time is paid properly I am willing to listen to offers, otherwise the most you can hope for is “no thanks, not now” in an email.

By: Stefan Menden

Stefan Menden — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:41:11 +0000

I agree with much of what has been said. They can quickly create a userbase of jobseekers. I am not convinced that a lot of companies are actually paying for interviews. But the main reason for this in my eyes is, that they don#t have to! It is so easy to find peoples linkedin profiles and contact them via linkedin - FOR FREE!

Any recruiters here? Would like to know what your impressions are.