Free Online Portfolio

I was watching tv this weekend; something I rarely do, but it's March Madness; and TheLadders commercial came on where they are chasing chairs on a wild safari.

It made me think about the whole concept of quality hiring and candidate marketing and the current state of the matter.

TheLadders has a good idea, but it's not fully baked.  The notion that a service fee will keep the clutter down of qualified candidates is noble.  Reducing volume is something many companies with great jobs try to do, but reduing volume through a service fee is the wrong plan.

CareerScribe allows candidates to use their career portfolio to keep someone alive when companies do a search.  Through the use of this free online portfolio, candidates that have no business being in that search are eliminated.  Also, companies can then use CareerScribe as an applicant tracking system that updates itself.  No stale information.

So it brings me back to the commercial.  If they want a high-back executive chair, they should get a sight that filters out the low-back chairs instead of only looking for chairs at a golf course