I just received an invite from someone to a new website service called NotchUp. Currently in beta, here’s what the website says about itself on the About Us page.
NotchUp is 100% free and takes less than five minutes to join. To get started, simply register, create a profile (which is similar to an online resume), and set an interview price. Your interview price is the price at which you’ll talk to prospective employers. Once you’ve created your profile, companies will search it and make you paid offers to interview if you have the skills and experience they’re looking for. Accept the offers you’re interested in, go to the interviews, and we’ll collect the money and transfer it to you.
We offer the following tools to make using NotchUp easy:
- The NotchUp calculator helps you calculate your optimal interview price, based on a variety of factors.
- You can instantaneously import your LinkedIn profile into NotchUp to use as your NotchUp profile.
- Your name and contact details remain hidden from a prospective employer until you accept their offer to interview.
- Your profile is unsearchable by your current employer.
At first glance it appears to be your general job recruiting website, but it’s got a little bit of a twist to it. It appears you can actually get paid for interviewing with companies. I think this is pretty interesting because I’m very happy where I’m at and what I’m doing. Things are going well. I’d hate to have a fantastic opportunity pass me by though because I was necessarily looking. The other challenge is that my time is valuable, NotchUp appears to let me hear about opportunities and be paid for my time if a company ends up wanting to talk to me about an opportunity. Pretty cool.
Since the site’s in beta right now you can’t just sign-up, but if you’re interested in putting your information into it and see what happens, just let me know by sending me an e-mail asking for a NotchUp invite and I’ll send you one.
Oh, the other good thing is that it can connect to LinkedIn to pull in your profile there so you don’t have to retype any of your pertinent information.