http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/04-11-2008/0004791206&EDATE=FRI+Apr+11+2008,+05:59+PM

Looks like this “Applicant Tree” has just as good a deal as NotchUp, and I won’t have to go through the hassle of a face-to-face interview to get my money. They’ll just pay you to have your resume looked at by companies. Much better.

We will be soon launching an Interview Service which is aimed at the hiring managers across corporate America. The idea is to take some pressure out of the hiring manager (who’s real job is not hiring). We will take the ownership of the filtering the candidates. In other words, our representatives will take the interview and certify a candidate.

Also, a candidate can take an interview in a technology area and get certified in advance. Those candidates will be listed as “Certified” in their profile.

Our interviews are real world technical architects, working in IT field for fore than 10 years. That makes a huge difference. “We will help you hire the RIGHT candidate” – That is our motto.

Regards,
Rani
Vice President
LeapConcepts

Compare it to LinkedIn’s TOS/Privacy Policy.

I’m floored by the number of people who love/hate the concept but don’t spend a moment of time reading–carefully–the Terms of Service.

Compare it to Googles TOS/Privacy Policy.

There’s a couple of points I think are getting over-looked:

1) You cannot see what your privacy settings might be until you register and agree to the TOS
2) They’re not responsible for what recruiters / third parties do with your resume or email address
3) If you cancel your account it’s “marked as deleted” in their database. Not deleted. Marked as such. Got it? Good.
4) If they sell your information, they’re not responsible for anything that happens to it downstream; the only way you can get off of those mailing lists, etc. is to contact whomever they sell to, and whomever they sell to, and so on and so forth. Plus, those people may all have “cached” versions of your information, so if they get a data snapshot of NU today, you cancel tomorrow and they get a new snapshot and sell it–guess what? Those companies will do a merge to remove duplicates–they’re not going to go out of their way and REMOVE you unless you know how to track them down.

There’s money in the list they’re generating.

5) Yep, it’s easy to use that LinkedIn slurp they’ve got set up for you. And, of course, all of your information that is respected and protected at LinkedIn… Well, different set of rules now.

Pay attention to the TOS and decide if giving up your information is really worth it.

http://www.userglue.com/blog/2008/01/27/notchup-privacy-down/