Meeting your professional match

With all the personal matchmaking services coming onstream, wouldn’t it make sense to similarly model a job site? One job portal has done just that -- utilizing “matching technology,” with no upfront fee, to identify applicants best suited for a particular position.

According to Rafael Cosentino, VP of Potomac, Md.-based RealMatch.com, “Employers need qualified talent and talent needs work.” But, he added, gone are the days when employers can afford to pay a $400 fee to post a job when they have no guarantee that they will find a qualified candidate. “Under those older pricing models, the employer bears all the risk while the job site has no risk whatsoever,” he said.

Realmatch.com offers a risk-free pricing model for employers, said Cosentino. Employers post their jobs on RealMatch, which then posts the job to over 1,200 partner sites via a job channel powered by Realmatch.

Realmatch also posts the jobs to several dozen third-party job board partners, such as Indeed, Simplyhired and Job.com. Employers using Realmatch then view a ranked and graded list of matched and applicant profiles for free, then decide whether these candidates qualify for their job. 

Once a human-resources executive sees an applicant he or she would like to contact or interview, it is at that point a fee is paid, Cosentino said.