| Employers |
 | "It's quick to get responses; you get plugged into a network of people
you already know, who know people you don't know.
It’s easy to verify the credibility of comments by candidates about themselves because they know people you know.
Most importantly for us it works....within a few of days of posting our job on RealContacts we had a number of candidates contact us, one of whom we hired straight away.
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Alex Bould, CEO, Fifth Web |
| "It works!"
Mike Perry, CEO, Montage Interactive |
| "Using RealContacts we have found someone so well suited to the job that
we've cancelled our planned use of our normal personnel consultants... plus no
advertising costs. I'd certainly recommend the service."
Kevin Taylor, Niche Software |
| "The RealContacts process is very helpful in complementing other job filling sources. The personal reference is very valuable for making a decision to hire or not. Keep up the good work."
Martin Knoche, The Mindjogger, Germany |
| "I have found the experience of listing an opportunity with RealContacts to be extremely easy, useful and quite interesting! I had a more diverse applicant pool than I have had in the past when I use the traditional head-hunter or newspaper advertising approach. The system promotes easy communication and information sharing on jobs and projects that are coming available.
Overall, an excellent implementation of a badly needed service!"
Liz Kolster, Business Analyst, Landcare Research |
| "We were impressed with the power and precision of the RealContacts system. With just a couple of hours of work we created a lot of activity and had some pretty interesting responses. The candidate we chose met our requirements exactly and we'll be sure to use RealContacts next time we are looking at hiring.
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Paul Sapsford, Ecoglo Ltd |
| "To search for a US Sales Director in San Francisco, we used
RealContacts, a recruiter, and a job board simultaneously.
RealContacts produced the best candidate. We hired him, and saved
$10,000 USD in recruiting fees. Now that our RealContacts network is
established, we will use it again and again."
Dr Shaun Ryan, CEO, S.L.I. Systems |
| "When we posted jobs in the past on online job boards we were
overwhelmed by inappropriate candidates and recruiters. For our latest
opening we used RealContacts, allowing us to target a select pool of
candidates in our industry, linked to us through our contacts but not
known to us. The candidates were spot-on, and we filled the job ."
Warwick Schaffer, Boulevard Web Systems
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| "It worked really well... I will use it again.
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Mark Marshall , Computerland |
| "The site RealContacts.com is incredibly professional and I must say
that I was blown away by it."
Shane Tolmie, Founder, DesignREM |
| "The inquiries we have received have been of great use. The quality of people inquiring is quite high and we are now reaching people that we normally wouldn't. People who would have not had any exposure to who we are now know what we do, and where they can find us."
Dayle Matthews, HR Consultant, Frontier Group |
| "Because of the specialised nature of our business, we always hire through
word of mouth rather than using advertising or job boards and having to screen lots of inappropriate responses. RealContacts is the first solution
we've seen that rapidly extends our word of mouth network to qualified candidates that we would not otherwise have known about. We filled the position and recommend the service."
Rick Fright , Applied Research Associates (ARANZ) |
| "We are a growing start-up and every new employee is crucial. We would
not use a public job board. RealContacts gave us an additional option
to the full-screening service provided by our recruiting providers.
We posted a job on RealContacts, built our network out, and within three days had seven enquiries of varying but manageable quality.
Two days later we hired one of them. The service is fast, controlled, and well-supported . We will continue to use it and would welcome our full-service recruiters also using it as another sourcing channel.
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John Bush, Director, Northern Arch Ltd |
| "We have found the RealContacts service to be extremely efficient and
cost effective. It provided a much higher standard of candidates than
more widespread web recruitment and a much quicker recruitment timeline
than conventional print media advertising. The level of customer
service has been exceptional and personalised, something we found
refreshing in today's e-marketing environment. We wish RealContacts
every success in growing their business and in return our networks for
recruitment.
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Rae Finlay, Tenth Dot Management Ltd. |
| Jobseekers |
| "I found quickly and easily a great international work assignment thanks to the global reach of personal networks on RealContacts. J'ai trouve rapidement et facilement un bon stage a l'etranger grace aux reseaux personnels mondiaux de RealContacts."
Matthieu, ENSIMAG (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France) |
| "Real Contacts is a wonderful networking tool that helped me find a great contract with a company in my specialised field of expertise.
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Jonathan E. |
| "I am signed up to get job notifications from a number of online job sites and the jobs from RealContacts are more relevant to me. These jobs are not posted on the other job boards and I would never have known about them without this service."
Bill |
| "The great thing about RealContacts is you get to deal directly with a person who knows what the jargon on your CV means."
Jonathan L. |
| Other |
| "55 percent of HR professionals rate "word of mouth/networking" as the best way to recruit high-quality applicants. "
Poll by HRNext and BLR.com. |
| "Career experts estimate that the vast majority of job openings are never advertised or publicly announced, but filled through word-of-mouth or networking -- known as the hidden job market. "
Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. |
| "Employees hired through social networks quit less frequently and perform better than those recruited otherwise."
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , author of “Linked - The New Science of Networks” (this is a general quote not specifically referring to the RealContacts service) |
| "Your idea is brilliant!!"
Annick Janson, Researcher in Social Networks, University of Waikato |
| "I reckon this is a stunning idea."
Bede Cammock-Elliott, seedigital |
| "RealContacts has become a useful and relevant tool for me. I find a lot of people asking me if I know of any good jobs going, as well as employers asking me if I know of anyone suitable for a specific position. I'm not an employment agent, but I really like helping my friends find other bright, qualified people to work with. RealContacts adds value to my relationships because it helps me help others meet their objectives. And everyone agrees that it's a cool concept implemented by a cool tool. Well done!"
Dave Moskovitz, Director, Thinktank Consulting Limited |
| "The concept is brilliant and the execution superb."
Paul Spence, Genius Net |
