Paul bigger and his co-founder Alan
rohnert needed to hire a graphic
designer for their san francisco-based
startup circle see I there weren't a lot
of people who are excited about our
space if you're bad we don't want them
and if you're good everyone wants them
after striking out at specialty websites
like hacker news and dribble they got a
lead to check out job poacher calm a new
free tech oriented website where job
seeker enters very basic information
like tidal current salary and desired
salary on Everett kradin is a full-time
software engineer who created job
poacher in his spare time as an
alternative to the traditional process
of uploading a resume and cover letter
back to the guys in San Francisco
through job poacher they connected with
Carlos Rose Kia's and Tijuana Mexico I
looked at the site very low barrier to
entry no credit cards anonymity you know
it felt like Craigslist for jobs it
basically said you know I am a designer
earning ex who wants to earn y and x and
y were within our range as interviewed
by paul with circle and the rest is
history within 10 days carlos quit his
job to telecommute for Circle C I in
California so far I absolutely love it
job poacher calm has been online for
only six weeks but already more than
three thousand users have uploaded the
profiles in San Francisco I'm Kara
Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News
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