Crowdsourcing Cowboys: Hiring Bounty & Idea Bounty Team Up
Idea Bounty
An old concept that’s gained enormous global traction recently, crowdsourcing proves itself effective and efficient when compared to traditional solutions. Hiring Bounty makes use of the crowd as a recruitment tool while Idea Bounty solves business problems by tapping into the creativity of the masses.
Now these two cowboys of the crowdsourcing world are sharing the reins: Hiring Bounty is working with Idea Bounty in order to find the best and most creative idea to drive traffic to their site.
On 11 November Hiring Bounty posted their brief on Idea Bounty which is offering a $1500 bounty for the top 5 ideas submitted. Interested individuals have just until the end of January 2012 to submit their best suggestions.
“We know that crowdsourcing is an effective mechanism of reducing costs, through efficiency, and massively increasing effectiveness. Immediately after the brief went live it was clear to see how Idea Bounty achieved its status as a global leader.” Says Greg Schneider, MD of Hiring Bounty.
Launched in August 2012, Hiring Bounty had placed over 10% of the positions available on their platform within the first month of operations. This at just 40% of what traditional recruitment agencies would charge for the same placement.
Nikki Cockcroft, Head of Online at Woolworths had the following to say about her successful hire through Hiring Bounty. “Hiring Bounty surprised us, pleasantly. There were fewer candidates, but they were of a very high quality making the recruitment process that much more efficient. We quickly found the candidate we wanted and the cost at the end of the day was far less than we’d pay a traditional recruiter. I’m excited about how Hiring Bounty can help us in our continual quest for the best talent.”
Willing gunslingers should head over here to check out the full brief. Or have a poke around on hiringbounty.com and help your friends get jobs.
Idea Bounty and Hiring Bounty are both businesses owned by the startup accelerator 42Engines.
Comments
WritersBeware Feb 1, 10, 04:04PM | #11
notmartha:
true but its still okay to get recommendations through private messages if I understand the forum rules correctly
"9. The EssayScam Forum (that includes the private message system) is not a place for advertisements or publicity in any way. EssayScam and its moderators have the sole discretion to determine what constitutes an advertisement. Violators may be temporarily or permanently suspended."
notmartha:
The people who have sent me private messages so far seem dodgy.
Can you please let us know the usernames of the members who contacted you to promote their services?
anthonygonsalves85 Feb 2, 10, 08:24AM | #12
notmartha:
true but its still okay to get recommendations through private messages if I understand the forum rules correctly.. please do help if you can. The people who have sent me private messages so far seem dodgy. How can one offer to provide quality papers if they can't even spell quality :/ "qualitty".
To be honest, I have not gone through every single sentence stated in the forum rules. However, it is my personal opinion that getting recommendations through private messages is better than getting scammed through some sh*t companies. After all, the private freelancers provide you with greater flexibility, better quality, and freedom to fix your own terms and conditions. I know some freelancers who are even open to receive payments after they deliver your work. In other words, there are lesser chances of getting defrauded.
Lobinho Feb 26, 10, 11:08PM | #13
anthonygonsalves85 SAID:
To be honest, I have not gone through every single sentence stated in the forum rules. However, it is my personal opinion that getting recommendations through private messages is better than getting scammed through some sh*t companies. After all, the private freelancers provide you with greater flexibility, better quality, and freedom to fix your own terms and conditions. I know some freelancers who are even open to receive payments after they deliver your work. In other words, there are lesser chances of getting defrauded.Sorry to bother you, but can you suggest me one freelancer? I?m actually struggled with one of my papers and I would like to have serious help once i?m quite suspicious about thoses companies who provide these kind of services.Many Thanks
Best
Lobinho on 22/04/2013
WRT Company Representative Feb 27, 10, 08:44AM | #14
Lobinho:
Sorry to bother you, but can you suggest me one freelancer? I?m actually struggled with one of my papers and I would like to have serious help once i?m quite suspicious about thoses companies who provide these kind of services.
Lobinho - the no recommendations policy serves the best interest of customers, not writers. You should support, not object to it. The fact is that most here are freelancers and only a mere handful is any good. For your own sake, do not follow any PM recommendations as you are very likely to land a substandard writer. The truth is that no good writer will ever accept payment after delivery (they don't need to) and will not need to trawl this forum in search of customers. There are some good writers here but you won't find them pm'ing you. The PMs you get will only be from the desperate ones.
I know that this isn't the response you were hoping to get but it is in your best interest.
Lobinho:
he private freelancers provide you with greater flexibility, better quality, and freedom to fix your own terms and conditions.
Never. Not the good ones.
Lobinho:
i?m quite suspicious about thoses companies who provide these kind of services.
Yes, most are awful but some are good. Which is which? Rely on your own judgement and trust it.