Premium Pay for Active Military
TAMPA, Fla., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The hunt for a new job just got easier and more profitable. A new Web site offers an exciting opportunity for applicants to get paid each time an employer downloads their resume.
Applicant Tree (http://www.applicanttree.com/) will be enticing job searchers to post their resume on the site by paying them half of the recruitment fee. The fees, which will range between $15 and $100, are paid to job hunters for each unique company that downloads their information. This in turn provides companies with a great value for their recruiting dollar.
Applicant Tree President Jen Cooper feels her service offers the best option for both job searchers and companies.
"When I was stationed in Iraq, I was amazed by the number of soldiers spending their Internet time preparing for their discharge by searching the job boards," Cooper said.
"To me, the chink in the system was that these guys could be bought and sold by recruiters and not receive any compensation for the hours they spend searching the boards. I wanted to correct that but at the same time offer a better deal to businesses and recruiters. I wanted to make it mutually beneficial right down the chain."
After completing their initial profile on Applicant Tree, applicants will be screened to determine the value of their resume, after which their resume will go live and can be viewed by employers. If the employer wishes to contact the applicant for an interview, the contact information can then be purchased and the applicant receives half of that amount. The more employers who purchase the information, the more the applicants earn.
The potential for earning depends entirely on how often companies wish to receive the applicant's contact information. Very desirable candidates could have their information purchased multiple times in a month. If the resume price is $20, and that information is purchased three times a week for a month, the applicant earns $120 -- an amount that more than offsets the expense of job hunting.
Determined not to forget her fellow troops that ignited this idea, Cooper has decided to pass the entire fee, not just half, to active members of the military, thus doubling their earnings.
"It's something I felt very strongly about doing," she said.
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