TalentSpring ranks resumes within their particular industry. This allows employers to go directly to the strongest candidates in an industry. The resumes are ranked by peers who are voting against others.
When your resume has a high Merit Score ranking in the TalentSpring resume marketplace, you can:
- Gain access to interviews and receive offers for highly desired positions.
- Increase your salary based on your status and desirability within your industry
- If you are getting ready for the next level in your career, ranking high in your industry will let you standout from your peers in the competition for those rare positions
How TalentSpring Works
You enter your resumes into TalentSpring. You then pick the exact job category you work in, such as: “Computer/Internet > Programmer > Language > Java” or “Nurse > RN”.
After you enter your resume, you'll be asked to evaluate pairs of resumes of other candidates in your job category. You then vote for who you think is the better of the two candidates - "better" in the sense of which one a typical employer is more likely to bring in for an interview.
Erroneous votes will be detected and discarded using our advanced mathematics.
If you develop an unusually large pattern of incorrect votes (a sign of bad-faith voting), your account will show a voting score of "F".
We target a day-and-a-half for the community to complete their votes and for you to be issued your Merit Score. A Merit Score of 2,000 puts a resume at the top of a job category and a Merit Score of 1,000 is the most entry level resume.
It's a public marketplace where you can browse candidates, depending on the personal privacy settings of the candidates. Some have made their resume viewable by other candidates; some have strict privacy settings so only employers can see the resume after the candidate has granted permission.
Fundamental Change to Hiring:
FICO is a single scoring system that is an accepted standard across the entire credit and lending industry. SAT scores serve a similar purpose in the college and university
system.
TalentSpring created the TalentSpring Merit Score - a measure of where a resume (and candidate) merit-ranks within an industry -- to deliver transparency and efficiency across the hiring process. Our goal is to become an industry standard within the employment markets, as SAT and FICO are to their respective industries.
We ask candidates to make the same decision every hiring manager asks, "If I have time to interview one more person, which of these two will I bring in for the interview?" The voting candidates themselves have expertise in the category to make such judgments and we pick very narrow job categories, such as "RN Nurses for Pediatrics." This aligns the employer's job category and the resumes in the category with the same criteria to allow for an apples-to-apples comparison.
TalentSpring's Company Beliefs:
The Hiring process SHOULD NOT be based on:
- Who you Know
- Self-Promotion
- Random Luck
The Hiring process SHOULD be based on:
- A market driven by MERIT
- Candidates with the strongest accomplishments -- at work, school, and elsewhere - get noticed.
- Candidates with the strongest performance get hired
Does the U.S. hire based on Merit?
Our country claims to hire based on the merit system. We at TalentSpring believe that to reliably hire based on merit, there must exist a NATIONWIDE SYSTEM to merit-rank and express merit.
Help us shape our Merit-Based Hiring System
Today is our beta launch of TalentSpring's marketplace of resumes. If you believe that merit ranking can increase the fairness and effectiveness of the hiring process, please join us and provide feedback during our beta phase.
Vote if this is interesting to you:
P.S. For Employers...
If you are hiring, you can sign up to receive weekly notifications of new resumes in the top 25% of their industry (for the positions you are trying to fill). There is no cost to receive the new resume notification. After the beta, there will be a charge only when unlocking the contact information of the candidates resume.
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