Interview for money
- TAGS:careers, human resources, interviewing skills, NotchUp, recruit
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Devices, Internet
 You've seen it before. A normally casual dresser arrives at the office in spiffy clothes and spit-shined shoes and some lame excuse about visiting the in-laws after work. You know he's going for a job interview. Well, you might start seeing more well-dressed workers if NotchUp Inc. becomes successful. According to Jim Ambras, CEO of the startup located in very upscale Los Altos Hills, Calif., the company arranges for people to get paid just to interview. He claims you need to dispense a little lucre to persuade top-notch people to bother to look for work because they've already got it. "The best people are those who have jobs," he says. He claims by paying people as much as $500 to discuss a job opportunity with a potential employee companies will actually save money. For example, a headhunter who recruits an engineer to be paid $100,000 annually generally will get 30% of the worker's first year's salary. You'd have to through 60 unsuccessful NotchUp interviewees at $500 a pop to lose $30K, which Ambras is betting won't happen. That's because each NotchUp recruit is rated by those he interviews with, so others can see how serious of a candidate he is. Also, recruits, who have anonymous profiles, can block out requests from certain companies, such as the one they currently work for. In beta now, Ambras says he's already got 400 companies looking for workers among the 50,000 people who've signed up.
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