A blog I follow, JobsintheMoney’s CareerWire, has drawn my attention to a very interesting site, especially for in-demand professionals such as accountants.
The site is called NotchUp and allows employers to pay to interview job candidates who otherwise wouldn’t be looking for a new job.
Associated Press has the lowdown:
How it works: You plug in your industry, job, pay and experience into a calculator on the site to help you set your pay for an interview. (NotchUp recommends a range between $200 and $500.) Then you submit your profile to the site.
If a hiring company is interested in you, it deposits the money with NotchUp and talks to you. If you seem like a real, engaged candidate, NotchUp will transfer the money to your PayPal account once the interview is over.
Interesting twist on the usual way things are done, and potentially a great way for employers to snatch up quality candidates. No mention of course on whether accounting firms are using the service yet, but it’s probably only a matter of time.
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1 Krupo // Feb 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Sounds like an interesting way to make a sideline. Damn, that would be taxable income, wouldn’t it?
2 Cool tax tip website - no, that's not an oxymoron - A Counting School // Feb 6, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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