LinkUp.com is a job-search engine. It’s a free, up-to-date, fast-growing database of current job opportunities from employers’ own web sites.

Although LinkUp has most of the features the big job boards and aggregators offer to help you find the right job — plus a few features they don’t — LinkUp is even more noteworthy for what it doesn’t do.

What LinkUp doesn’t do
Unlike job boards and aggregators, LinkUp doesn’t:

  1. Hide 80 percent of the available jobs to increase competition for its own customers’ openings.
  2. Accept job listings from recruiters, job shops, staffing agencies, or other intermediaries. These services charge a 20-30 percent markup, seriously reducing their candidates’ competitiveness, but they also generate plenty of duplicate postings and even promote scams.
  3. Syndicate its job listings to aggregators. Did you know that job boards are the aggregators’ biggest customers, and that aggregators skew search results in their clients’ favor?
  4. Adjust jobs’ posting dates to make older listings look new, and resuscitate old, frozen, or filled jobs to generate traffic. How confident are you that the hot job you’ve just learned about is really even open?
  5. Require companies to manage their job postings. All changes in companies’ ATSs are propagated automatically each night when LinkUp verifies its listings.
  6. Offer candidates a one-size-fits-all application form, which facilitates indiscriminate, ill-considered (‘drive-by’) job applications. LinkUp candidates apply on companies’ sites, on companies’ terms.
  7. Have a resume bank. Have you ever wondered where that offshore recruiter with the heavy accent got your resume, or why you’re suddenly getting so much ‘work-at-home for $20K-a-day’ spam? Even worse, don’t you regret that the hiring manager for that “perfect” individual-contributor job found your ‘management’ resume in the job board’s resume bank?
  8. Retain control of the job-application process. LinkUp candidates apply directly on companies’ own web sites, where employers can inform them better, track conversions, and build relationships.
  9. Have security holes that let hackers steal and sell your personal information, resulting in spam, identity theft, and worse. With LinkUp, you can only log in using an OpenID identity but you also never store your private information on the site.
  10. Charge companies an arm-and-a-leg for each posted job, regardless of whether a single candidate applies. LinkUp charges employers a flat monthly fee to carry ALL their listings, and offers AdWords-like pay-for-performance pricing to higher-volume job posters.

For more information about what sets LinkUp apart — and how to break free of the job boards’ and aggregators’ usurious grip — please link up with Andrew Davis, 1-866-359-9360 x031, andrew@linkup.com.

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