[fr] Si vous avez reçu une invitation NotchUp, pas de souci: ce n'est pas comme quechup. Il s'agit d'une véritable invitation. En deux mots, NotchUp est un site de chasseurs de têtes, où l'on met sa propre tête à prix. Vous décidez combien une entrprise désirant vous interviewer doit vous payer (500$ par exemple).
Histoire que ça se propage, on nous promet 10% des gains que feront les gens qu'on invite (ça explique probablement les 8 invitations de la part de vos contacts LinkedIn, qui trainent dans votre boîte de réception). Donc si vous voulez en être...
First, no worry. I really did select your name to send you the invite. And yes, the invite is poorly worded and looks quechuppy. They’re so beta you can’t change the wording of the e-mail, which is sad, because I think it makes them look bad.
Their site is very slow, and I’m wondering if this is because they underestimated how fast they would spread, with unlimited invites per user and “load your LinkedIn contacts” feature.
What’s NotchUp? I’d say it’s an electronic head-hunting service. With added bonus: you get paid when a company wants to interview you (talk about incentive). You sign up, import your LinkedIn profile or edit your details by hand, decide how much you want to be paid if a company wants to interview you, and there you go.
If you got an invite from me, it’s not necessarily that I assume that you’re desperately looking for a job. You might be like me, happy where you are, but willing to consider interesting offers (like when Google tried to recruit me last year). Or I might simply not know, and I took a guess.
A little feedback, as this is a beta.
- the site is slow — if this is a scaling issue, fix it fast.
- it’s a pity there is no obvious way to send feedback, as it’s a beta.
- allowing people to edit the invitation mail would be a top-priority thing for me, as I think it’s damaging to them — I thought the first friend of mine who invited me had been Plaxo/Quechup scammed (sorry…) and hadn’t meant to send me the invite.
- internationalization, please. I don’t live in Springfield, Massachusetts. We don’t all have 5-digit zip codes (mine is 1004, so I cheated, and entered 01004).
- secure security questions would be cool.
- I don’t fit in the calculator template.
- it looks too good to be true: get money to be interviewed, get 10% of what the friends you brought into the system make over the next year by getting interviewed… how will NotchUp make their money? A little insight about the business model might help take it more seriously.
- Edit: please don’t make us give our LinkedIn password to import data. Giving away passwords a bad thing to teach your users. Encourage responsible behaviour instead.
If you haven’t got an invite by now (it would be surprising!) and you want one, don’t hesitate to let me know, of course 😉
Edit: a few other reviews of NotchUp I found (pretty positive, I’d say)…
- techradar: NotchUp: A brilliant Jobsearch Startup with an Idea that’ll change the Business Value Chain
- TechCrunch: Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You
- CheezHead: NotchUp Review
- CenterNetworks: There Are Great Ideas, There Are Poor Ideas, Then There’s NotchUp
- Gautam Ghosh: Will NotchUp catch up?
- poetticcode: Vote No For Aggressive Viral Marketing