The RealMatch online recruitment system is fundamentally different than most job sites. The differences are centered on 5 major areas: Unlike most job sites, RealMatch does not require you to pay up front to post a job. Instead, you can post your job free and pay only if the response we generate is acceptable to you. Once you post your job, we will advertise the job on our powered by network of job sites as well as over three dozen partner job boards. The first thing you’ll see when you post a job is a list of passive candidates from our database. These candidates match your job’s requirements by at least 60%. We will also begin featuring your job in light rotation to active job seekers across the RealMatch network. You are likely to start seeing a few applicants for your job within 24 hours from the time you post. You will be able to view the resume summary of all candidates for each posted job free. Resume summaries do not contain contact information; instead they provide an overview of each candidate’s skills and experiences. To view the contact information or full resume of candidates, you will need to purchase a resume opening package. In addition to seeing the full resumes and contact information of all candidates, your job will also be placed into heavy rotation across the RealMatch network of premium sites. This will result in significantly more exposure for your job. All jobs are posted for 45 days. You can purchase a “resume opening package” any time during such 45 days. But your job will be removed from the site if you do not purchase a “resume opening package” within the job’s 7 days evaluation period. If the purchase a package after the 7 days period, the job will be re-posted for the remaining of the 45 days posting period. Once you purchase a “resume opening package” you will have 45 days to view all the resumes that you have received during the 45 days of posting. After 45 days you will be able to continue to view the resumes that you opened during the initial 45 days. The chart below explains the time frames for posting and resume viewing. Candidates that register complete a professional profile that includes adding their skills, qualifications and employment history. All key parameters must be selected from our database so we can make sure a candidate’s skills and a job’s requirements match. Candidates can also upload their resume which we use to extract additional information from. When you post a job, you will choose the skills and experiences you require using our database of titles and skills. You can use the RealMatch taxonomy to browse and search for skills using keywords or categories. If you can’t find a skill in our list you can create a skill using free text. However, that skill cannot be used for matching and will only be used for screening applicants. We are continuously updating our skill list. Make sure you search well for your skill as it may appear under a different name (e.g. “CSS” vs. “Cascading style sheets”).

You can also add qualifying questions to further screen applicants. There is always one default question, “Have you performed a similar job in the past”. We ask this question so we can give candidates with a relevant background a higher match score than candidates with no relevant experience. You can also select the importance level for each skill you enter. If you select “must have” we will not show your job to candidates who do not have the skill in their profile and will not give possible qualified candidates a chance to say that they have that skill. So be cautious about using “Must have” as this often screens out qualified candidates that have not been given a chance to enter the particular skill you are seeking. Marking a skill as “important” or “very important” will make your job available to more candidates and will give that skill a different weight in our match score. Match levels are shown as “Best”, “Sufficient” or “Basic”. The specific score may vary but in general a candidate can only get a “Basic Match” score, if he is more than 50% match.

When candidates apply to your job we check whether they have the skills that you require in their profile and resume. If applicants have not yet identified having a specific skill which you require, the application page will ask about those skills to make sure we can grade and rank the applicants according to the requirements of your job. Every time a candidate on our system fills out an application; we garner more and more information about them making our resume of passive candidates stronger and more matchable! Our matching algorithm takes into account the candidates’ skills, their answers to your qualifying questions, their employment history and other qualifications. We can only use information that was deciphered from the candidates’ profile and resume.

Although our technology is highly accurate, it is not perfect and may be limited in its ability to verify specific skills. Therefore, when you see matching candidates (not applicants) you cannot always know how well they qualify for your job. This can be done once you open their full resume. RealMatch has reinvented the online employment experience for candidates and employers. We use better technology, have broader distribution, provide an intuitive interface which doesn’t clog anyone’s inbox and offer a risk free pricing model for employers. Imagine walking into a store and someone stops you at the entrance then asks you to pay in advance for something they may or may not have on their shelves? Chances are pretty high you’d walk away aren’t they? But wait, isn’t this what “pay-to-post” job boards do to employers every day? Let’s take a look at the pricing model of sites like Monster.com™, HotJobs.com™ and CareerBuilder.com™. They require you to spend upwards of $400 or more to post a job before you know whether the posting will generate the qualified candidates you are looking for. If you need to search their resume database go ahead and add hundreds of dollars to get limited access to resumes that may or may not be what you are looking for.

Under that model, the job poster bears all the risk while the job website has no risk whatsoever. The job website gets paid regardless of whether the poster finds a qualified candidate or not. Over 70% of 3400 HR managers and recruiters we surveyed told us they are unsatisfied with the quality, price and pricing model offered by job sites such as Monster.com™, Hotjobs.com™ and CareerBuilder.com™. So while the Internet has progressed to “performance-based advertising”, job sites have remained behind, maintaining the old “pay to post” or “pay, post, and pray” business model. And while performance-based advertising models such as pay per click have become common-place today, they still place the risk on you.

When you pay for clicks, clicks are often what you get. Are you looking for clicks to your ad or are you trying to find a brand manager with DTC experience in New Jersey? In the offline world, a store cannot sell tomatoes unless they stock tomatoes. They can’t charge you just to come in and look around for tomatoes. The same thing should be true of job platforms. RealMatch sells qualified candidates. We do not sell job postings or clicks or products which have no value. We place the value exactly where you do, on the candidate. If we cannot stock the candidates you are looking for, we don’t get paid. Now imagine your dilemma the next time you need to find a candidate. You might debate between paying up front with no guarantee of results or posting a job for free on the RealMatch network and only paying if you like the results. Could there be an easier decision to make?