Job-hunting site Venturocket doesn't want your stupid résumé

By Tim Conneally from BetaNews

After steadily gaining popularity among professionals and receiving a $3 billion valuation in its IPO, LinkedIn has become the gold standard of work-related social networking.

But LinkedIn isn't really well-tailored for finding jobs and employees without becoming a paid member. It's more about posting résumés and creating a network of contacts exclusively for professional purposes.

For people who find themselves out of work, LinkedIn only helps so
much if they're not paying for the service. Furthermore, employment
sites like Careerbuilder and Monster.com charge companies to list job openings, making it a costly investment just to publicly say they're looking to hire someone new.

So San Francisco startup Venturocket
on Monday launched a headhunting and job seeking site which completely
does away with the résumé, and has users simply list their skills and
proficiency levels at those skills in a sort of "tag cloud" which is
indexed and searchable.

Searching for jobs and posting job listings on the site is free,
making it attractive to both ends of the user spectrum. Fees instead
come into effect when a connection between a job hunter and potential
employer is made.

Job seekers and employers are charged the same fee to keep users from
spamming every single listing with applications and to make sure job
scouts are serious about following up with an interview.

“The job market is broken. It's too expensive and time consuming to
find talent or land a job - everyone’s sending résumés to every job they
can find. So we’ve created an efficient market that matches job seekers
and entrepreneurs with the right opportunities for their skills by
actually quantifying human talent” said Marc Hoag, CEO of Venturocket in
a statement on Monday.

Venturocket is open to individuals, companies, and recruiting firms beginning today.