Most of our features on conversion in the human capital marketplace are presented from the POV of hiring companies, rather than candidates for positions. However, today we'd like to focus on a new service that claims to provide competitive intelligence to candidates hoping to convert an interview into a job offer.
According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, the service, "Puvu.com, which started up last year, offers ''job interview reports" on about 100 Boston-area companies for purchase. The reports offer applicants insight into what an interview for a position was like, including examples of specific questions asked."
The people at Puvu.com are willing to pay recent interviewees $40 for a detailed report of their interview experience. Once a database (?) of interviews for a given company is assembled, Puvu.com makes money by selling company reports to aspiring applicants ($19.95) or by selling reports to the hiring company or its competitors for $79.95.
The founder of the company is Ashot Hayrapetyan, a 25-year-old whose own interviewing experiences provided him with both the idea and the impetus to give job seekers like himself a more "level playing field" in the interview process.
Is it worth $19.95 to get a better idea of what you might face in an interview? Is it a problem for future employers (who are often impressed when a prospect does company research prior to an interview)? We'd like to know. Send us your comments!
Comments