Paidinterviews

What do you think?

The site has been up for almost a month now so many of you have had a chance to get to know PaidInterviews.  I wanted to get some more user feedback; what features would you like to see? Would you tell your friends about the site? If yes, what is your favorite feature? If not, why not?  Thanks to all of you that have already provided feedback through “contact us”, it has been very helpful.  We are releasing a new build on the 29th that addresses some issues that were raised since our beta launch in early September.  We look forward to your comments.

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What would it take for you to leave your job?

What if there was a web application that could privately match you with your ideal job, would you look?  If you saw something that you really liked, what would it take for you to go on the interview?  I bet you would be willing to go on the interview if the company you were looking at agreed to a signing bonus specified by you before the interview or even they knew your name.   The idea almost sounds to good to be true.

So what would it take for your to leave?

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Create your ideal job and let the employers come to you

As a candidate, I have spent many hours searching for the ideal job; does the job have the benefits I want, the salary, the commute, the environment, these are not easy questions to find the answer to either.  Anyone who has searched for a job at anytime in his or her life knows the struggle.

Often times people end up settling for a job that may not offer what they would ideally like to have.  Sometimes your ideal job is not available at the time that you are looking for it, or maybe you searched 100 different job sites, but the job was on the 101st.  A better way to go about finding your ideal job is to outline it while your employed at your current job.  This way you can wait for the job to come to you.

On Paidinterviews you can do just that, just use our ideal job platform to outline your interests, then we notify you when an employer is offering what you are looking for.  And best of all, after the job interview, you will be paid the amount that you had specified as your “interview ask price”.

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“What is it really like working here?”

That’s a question that has been on the minds of candidates for years and if you don’t know anyone on the inside, finding the answer can be a difficult task.  The people conducting the interviews certainly aren’t going to give you an honest answer. They need to fill the position and if you’re a good candidate they are not going to tell you all of the negative details, some of which you may or may not even care about.

So how can a candidate find out what it is really like working for the company they plan on possibly pursuing or even working for in the future? You could Google the company until your eyes burn and your fingers become tired or you could cold call the company under a fictitious name, but is this really how it has to be?

What if there was a website that harnessed the wisdom of crowds to create a place where companies were commented on and rated in a way similar to Amazon ratings? How valuable would that be to candidates?   The wisdom of crowds prevails in web 2.0; product ratings both good and bad can be found on Amazon and Epinions, and Wikipedia has used the wisdom of crowds to create an accurate online encyclopedia. There are ratings sites for products, apartments and professors, but why not companies?  Some people may trash companies on a site that rates companies, but I want to be the judge of how valuable that information is to my situation.

Why is “what is it really like working here?” an important question to answer? Because imagine if you go to work for a company without doing any in-depth research only to discover there is a major issue with the company 3 weeks later. Let’s say the issue is large enough to make you reconsider your employment with the company. If you leave the company this is going to be a red flag on your resume; I can’t remember the last time I interviewed with a company that encouraged job-hopping.

Paidinterviews is developing a product which helps candidates better evaluate employers. Employers have had there fun evaluating us as candidates using background checks, snooping on our Myspace and Facebook pages, now it is our turn.

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Baby Boomers Begin to Retire

So 2008 is the first year that baby boomers “officially” begin to retire.   And what does this mean to corporate america, or the person looking for a new job?

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