Keep up the good work.

I loved the RezRedo idea and I have a related idea to openly share with you guys. Not sure regarding the legal details that would need to be worked out to execute this idea — nor the size or source from which you access your current resume data for RezRedo.

So you know how sites like indeed and simplyhired ‘scrape’ job reqs. How about a site that scrapes resumes — to create a mega database to be used by recruiters and hiring managers (including your current resume database as one of the scraped resume sources)? Is that ridiculous? Yes and no.

Surely some resume owners could opt out for privacy reasons, and many would prefer to have identifying info hidden (with an alias email provided so they could still be contacted by hiring ppl). But I’m sure many people (millions in the US?) such as myself would be fine just to post freely. Though details and resolving counterarguments would need to be grinded out, this open model only serves to make the job market more efficient/transparent, so it provides profound utility to society. (not that investors would be particularly moved by making the world a better place, but that’s not the only reason we do things!) This could arguably be called a disruptive technology in that it disrupts the current ecosystem and how job boards such as monster treat resumes as proprietary IP and charge recruiters to access “their” (our) data. I give Monster my resume for free and then they charge others to view it. Very clever…

LinkedIn is kind of doing this already, but generally it takes more time to build a LinkedIn profile and users generally come from a savvier crowd, which comprises just a portion of the job market. With the above-proposed approach people could just upload their resume with the click of a button and be done. This could also replace resume distribution services such as résumé rabbit, etc. This could produce a much larger pool of resumes than LinkedIn. There could be a date-time stamp so recruiters could ascertain through a recently marked upload that people are actively looking and that it’s not stale inventory.

Just sharing an idea. I’m sure someone has thought of this before and the business model would need to be explored (ad, or subscription/premium subscription, or a per search and/or per upload fee). Just brainstorming here! Would be curious what online job/resume searches will look like in 50 years. The above is likely one of the earlier steps among many such evolutionary advances…

Take care,
-John

Keep up the great work. We are privileged to have you as a member of the group!

Graham.

I heard your pitch a few months back at the UltraLight Startups – Outsourcing event when it was still in early alpha mode. Looks like things are coming along well.

See you soon as more UltraLight Startup events!

-=Vin