NotchUp

NotchUp
Type of site
Crowdsourced recruiting
Available inEnglish
Founded2008
HeadquartersPalo Alto, California
Founder(s)Jim Ambras
Rob Ellis
URLnotchup.com
Launched2008; 18 years ago (2008)
Current statusOffline

NotchUp, Inc. was a Silicon Valley–based start-up that was first to offer an on-demand recruiting service that uses crowdsourcing combined with social media[1] and an advanced web-based technology platform. NotchUp is a privately held company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

The company's service is based on the premise that the best people are already employed, but are open to exploring opportunities that offer a better value proposition than their current job. NotchUp finds passive candidates[2][3] for job postings using a crowdsourced[4] group of independent contractors called Talent Scouts. NotchUp posts positions on their web site and the 2000+ Talent Scouts use NotchUp's proprietary software to match their personal and professional connections in social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Companies with job postings rate the candidates and either independently take the next steps or use NotchUp's services to make connections and do additional screening. Talent Scouts are then compensated based on how accurately they matched candidates to the position. It created what Bloomberg referred to as a "spam snowball."[5]

The company was started in 2008 by co-founders Jim Ambras and Rob Ellis and initially offered a Pay for Interview service.[6][7] It was listed by Business Insider as one of the “20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch" in 2010.[8] The company had seed funding from Floodgate, Nueva Ventures, and Steve Blank.[citation needed]

The company was later known as JobFlo.[9] The company was last active on social media in 2018.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Sharlyn Lauby. "Tips for Effective Recruiting on Social Media Sites", Mashable, 2010-05-25
  2. ^ Lou Adler. “How to Recruit and Hire Passive Candidates”’’, 2004-12-17
  3. ^ Balanced Recruiting. “Balanced Recruiting”, The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Media Partners. Archived 2010-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Sarah Kessler. "5 Creative Uses for Crowdsourcing", Mashable, 2010-05-27
  5. ^ Hesseldahl, Arik (January 30, 2008). "NotchUp's Annoying Opening Act". Bloomberg.
  6. ^ Erick Schonfeld. “Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You”, TechCrunch, 2008-01-22
  7. ^ Helen Coster. "Pay to Play", Forbes Magazine, 2008-09-29
  8. ^ Nick Saint. “20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch”, Business Insider, 2010-04-02
  9. ^ "A Silicon Valley Story: JobFlo has gone Google". Official Google Cloud Blog. Retrieved 2024-05-22.

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