A new job board launched a few days ago, providing evidence that entrepreneurs aren’t intimated by the worsening recession and that they’re still struggling with Web 2.0 forms.
InovaHire is the latest offering in the crowded job board market. It’s a traditional job board except that job postings and employer profiles are free. The company generates revenue on a pay-per-view basis for display ads and links back to advertiser websites. For now these reside in two resource centers: one for candidates that offers things like resume writing and office supplies, and one for employers offering drug testing services and office furniture.
There’s also the usual employer profile enhanced with a clever Amazon-like feature that shows job-seekers what other sites people who visited that employer also viewed. That works both ways. Employers searching candidate profiles get to see who else other employers looked at.
What sets InovaHire apart is a sort of Instant Interview request. When you come across a candidate interesting enough to talk to, InovaHire enables you to contact them and schedule an online interview. Both of you need to have a microphone and webcam, but these are so ubiquitous — and so cheap — that it’s almost a non-issue. Of course there are other online interview solutions out there, but InovaHire’s solution is free and doesn’t require anything special in the way of software or connections.
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In other ways, InovaHire is fairly standard, perhaps a touch dated. Resumes have to be entered manually in the fields the company provides. Jobseekers must provide a date of birth, but are told it won’t be displayed, so we have to assume it will eventually be used to target ads based on demos.
Founders Eric Schifone and Tanya Willette hail from New England, in the Boston area. Schifone has experience in high tech recruiting, while Willette, recently out of Southern New Hampshire University, has been working as an independent consultant to small firms for several years.
Another new for jobs in restaurants and hotels is job.travel, located at http://www.job.travel i think. it looks pretty cool
If you haven’t been to Inovahire.com, you should go there now. Inovahire.com just updated their resume section, and now all job seekers have to do is simply cut and paste their existing resume into their personal profile. This site is a social network like job board and unique from anything else today. It’s a two-way street where recruiters can do keyword searches to find candidates and candidates can search for jobs. All on this one site you can organize your search, communicate, schedule and have a live online interview. It’s really amazing.
I love the idea. There are many sites out there that let you post jobs for free. I think ultimately it’s a matter of how easy it is to use the site and how many jobs there are.