Fed up of lengthy job applications? Not enough time to do applications, study, and have a social life? I may just have the perfect solution…
TalentPool is a new recruitment platform that allows students to complete a ten-minute sign up, for free, in return for exposure to hundreds of employers looking to hire. It speeds up the dreaded job-search by getting rid of the hours of endless searching and applying – which inevitably result in a fistful of rejections, anyway. Instead you have one quick application. Job seekers can then, quite literally, just sit back and wait for the opportunities to come knocking.
Many of the recruiting employers working with TalentPool are SMEs and startups. At these organisations, you have the opportunity to have a real impact and, of course, it’s experience that will look great on your CV. Some of them are so innovative and different that it is quite possible that, without TalentPool, you would never know they existed.
A bit more about this mystical ten minute application, you ask? Well, does it really take just ten minutes? Yes. Through a series of drop down options and tick boxes you chart your work experience, education history, personal attributes, and characteristics. It is this unique combination of information that guarantees you to be contacted only by companies that are genuinely interested in you, for roles that fit your talents and preferences. It’s so quick; it can easily be completed during a revision break, and has been found, in fact, to be a very worthy form of procrastination, as opposed to, say, Netflix, or that fifth water break.
To top it all off, TalentPool shares every pound they receive with one of their five partner charities – and each new sign up gets a say in which one to support. So by using TalentPool to expand your own opportunities, you also get to feel pretty good about yourself.
So, why on earth wouldn’t you sign up? You’ve got nothing to lose. Well, maybe ten minutes. But weren’t you just going to go on Facebook anyway?
