BeyondJob.com Fact Sheet

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Updated April 29, 20010

What is BeyondJob?

BeyondJob.com, formerly known as LinkedNow, is an online guide that helps job seekers find company and recruiter reviews, based on the informed opinions of an active community of working professionals in the know.

Users can also write reviews and rate their own companies. This in return, helps job seekers make informed decisions and allows users to build their social network with other professionals.

BeyondJob will also get your employment questions of every kind answered in our advice blog: How do I standout in a tough job market? How to I handle a colleague who is a saboteur? How do I deal with losing my job when I wasn’t at fault? I’m the boss and my staff criticizes me. What should I do?

BeyondJob’s ranking algorithm uses a proprietary system called CompanyRank to classify employers. Each company is rated based on 7 criteria such as Trust in Senior Leadership, Job Security and Career Growth among others that we found vital to gauge a company’s competitiveness as an employer.

• User contributions are vital to making BeyondJobw smarter overall. Contributions can include your company and recruiter reviews, message board posts and ideas for career advice blogs. In addition, it can also include correcting a fact that BeyondJob got wrong, to suggesting new topics to feature.
• The more BeyondJob learns about each individual user's personality and preferences, the better BeyondJob can customize decision results for that user. It's like a friend getting to know someone's taste and preferences over time, so they can provide sound and trusted advice.

What problem does BeyondJob solve?

Our long-term goal is for a user to be able to come to BeyondJob with any career decision he is pondering, and after reading company and recruiter reviews, get a solid idea on what companies he would like to work for. It would be as though he had a close, knowledgeable friend at the company and or done hours of careful research online.

What stage is BeyondJob in?

BeyondJob began an invite-only beta preview period on Janury 7, 2009. BeyondJob opened to the public on March 1, 2009. BeyondJob is currently building its base of company and recruiter reviews, and advice blogs. It will soon be in a private beta period for its Unified Communication service based on Google Wave platform for users who create an account.

• As more people use BeyondJob, it will become smarter about what it knows and more valuable for users.

How will BeyondJob make money?

Some of the company and recruiter review pages on BeyondJob link to external sites where users can purchase the product or service that BeyondJob proposed. If they do, BeyondJob may earn a referral fee from the merchant.

How is BeyondJob different from other sites?

BeyondJob stands out from traditional word of mouth by:

• Creating an easy, private and fun way for real professionals to share opinions about the company they worked for.
• Fostering a vibrant community of job seekers and professionals who feel connected both on BeyondJob and in the real business world.
• And, by gathering insightful reviews from actual human beings whose walked the walk and talked the talk – that's what we call Real Reviews.

After all, what good are job-posting sites, if you don't know the entire truth about your next employer?

What's the history of BeyondJob and who is behind it?

• BeyondJob is based in Mountain View CA.
• BeyondJob has a talented team of JAVA engineers, JS ninjas and project manages, as well as QA engineering team in China.
• BeyondJob began a small preview period in the Winter of 2009, opened its preview to the public on March 1, 2009, and will fully open to the public on October 15, 2009.