We all know how hard it can be to find a job. Increasingly, employers are finding it almost as difficult to find the right person for their job openings, particularly with the proliferation of online sites to advertise positions, spammers, and different files to open containing resumes or work samples.
It's why Pittsburgh-based The Resumator was founded in 2009, and it's why the startup is earning plenty of attention for its web-based social recruiting and applicant tracking tools. The company earned $100,000 in seed funding from Innovation Works in late 2010.
The Resumator platform allows employers to simply advertise jobs across social networks and to free job aggregators, create branded sites for applicants and compile submitted resumes to a single source. An employer can then discuss, rank and track candidates, including search and filter tools for the resume database.
Mostly, The Resumator makes the life of a hiring manager--or those workers who are charged with the task despite not having any training or resources to do an effective job. Pricing ranges from $29 a month for managing three jobs at once to $299 per month for 40 jobs. There's also an Infinity plan for larger companies.
The Resumator earned about 200 customers in the two years since it was founded in a variety of industries and has plans to roll out more features focused on social network connections. A graduate of Innovation Works' AlphaLab program for startups, the company previously earned $75,000 from the incubator.