Today I received a beta invite from Barry Schwartz for the site NotchUp.com. NotchUp is a job site which makes companies pay to interview you. The goal of this site looks to lure talented professionals to companies while they might not actively be seeking new employment. It’s a way for HR folks and Hiring Managers to locate those passive job seekers that typically they are unable to reach. Right now it shows Google, Facebook and some other corporate beta testers using their services.

So how does it work?

The site first lets you set an interview price and includes a little calculator which allows you to put in some criteria and then spits out a suggested interview price. This is a slick feature and seems to be pretty on par with real value even though it came in a little below what I thought I was worth ;).

Setting up your profile is a piece of cake. Most people on this site are probably using LinkedIn already so they have a feature which will let you import all your information from that service which worked like a charm for me. It also allows you to block certain email addresses from seeing your information if you are seeking a job and you don’t want your employer to know about it.

Another really cool feature is a 10% referral fee. When you refer a friend to the site and they get interviewed you earn a 10 percent referral fee (which if know of people actively seeking a job then you better invite them before I do! ) The cool thing is that even if you don’t get the job your left with more than a generic letter from an HR department, you get $$$$.

If your interested and would like an invite just contact me.