AceQA – Job Portal for QA Professionals
AceQA, as the name signifies is a job portal for QA professionals and is focusing on building a community of testing professionals. 
AceQA is differentiating itself from the other job sites by making employers pay for accessing resumes, i.e. Pay-per-resume model.
AceQA‘s pay-per-resume model lets employers browse through complete profile details of the job seekers for free. Employers can buy only the chosen profiles using the Pay-Per-Resume model (currently Rs. 250/resume).
Though the Pay-per-resume model seems interesting (used to be a super hit during web1.0 days), it is very likely to get short-circuited by LinkedIn – and the ones who will do this will be recruiters.
What’s really commendable about the site is the entire idea of verticalizing the job requirement to one specific niche – i.e. QA professionals. Most of the job sites these days are turning out meaningless and I still believe that there is a room for innovation in the online job industry and the oldies will face tough competition in the coming years.
What’s your take?
i think the best vertical or niche jobs site in that case is http://www.workosaur.com
From my experience of interacting with numerous employers, consultants, recruiters and job seekers I strongly feel there is a huge potential for vertical based job portals. However, the models of the usual portals will not work here. People will not buy an yearly access to a vertical-based portal when they have only a handful of openings in that domain/vertical all through the year.
Completely agree with you Ashish, there is a lot of room for innovation (most of the big companies I have talked to subscribe to at least two of Naukri, Monster, Timesjobs, ClickJobs => they are not getting what they are looking for). However, this innovation cannot happen sitting in a cubicle. It is a must to have field knowledge, to know the recruiter fundas. I’m still learning what works and what does not.
Q. What sells more Job Postings or Database access? A. Job Postings.
Ashish – have to agree with you about LinkedIn short circuiting a site such as this. If I’m a prospective employee, I’d like as many people as possible to see my resume. The reason why I’d submit on a site such as naukri is that I know that employers use their naukri’s search engine to look for employees, and that I’d turn up in the appropriate search results. Employers like the fact that once they’ve paid for the database service, they can go through as many or as few resumes as they please.
On the other hand – employers are much less likely to look at one resume at a time and pay Rs. 250 each. They’d rather just hop onto LinkedIn and do a bunch of searches for free searches.
Gautam Kshatriya
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