Gild Presentation. Better Boost Your Stats: Gild Turns Hunting For A Tech Job Into A Game. If you’ve ever gone job hunting online (and who hasn’t these days?)
You know just how incredibly inefficient the process can be. Job listings are littered across the web, making it difficult to filter for the ones that match your skillset. And then when you actually go about applying to a job, you have no idea how you stack up against the competition — or even how many other people have applied. Gild turns job finding into a game, lets users prove their skills to employers. Gild, a Web service that lets job seekers prove their mettle to employers with challenges and tests, announced it is coming out of a closed beta test today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
The job-finding site gives users a way to differentiate themselves from other job candidates by proving their worth in specific areas, such as programming or mathematics and logic, with challenges. Gild provides employers with the results and a direct score that helps show where candidates stand. The challenges are company-sponsored and usually consist of a few questions, and usually have rewards like iPads and iPod Touch devices. The companies sponsoring challenges can get real-time feedback about the top performers and offer them an invite right then and there.
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