CV-carrot.com brings jobseekers and employers together

A Website to introduce jobseekers and potential employers online has been set up, as a means of helping small businesses solve staffing problems.

New business Nagem has launched cv-carrot.com, a search engine site which has taken six months to create.

Now, weeks after being launched, the number of CVs posted online is growing daily, and a multilingual element has been built into the engine to allow Nagem to expand its product into other countries.

This is so that similar sites can be set up in other countries, which the company hopes to do by early next year.

Gary Ingram, managing director of Nagem, came up with the idea after discovering the cost of recruitment to small businesses in his role as director of an IT design company.

The investment we would have had to put in to find people was just not realistic, said Mr Ingram, who began his career with renowned advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi in London.

I started to look at recruitment websites, but even then it was running into hundreds of pounds just to place a small advert.

Online recruitment is going through a huge boom, but itís still more expensive than it should be and I thought we could come up with an alternative.

He teamed up with software engineers who have spent six months designing and perfecting the engine, while Mr Ingram has worked on researching the market and creating the cv-carrot brand.

He said: We are not trying to be a recruitment organisation because we donít have those skills, but through technology we can put people looking for jobs and companies with positions to fill together in a low-cost way.

Candidates can enter a short resume on the site and search for job vacancies by location, job type, contract, salary and whether full-time or part-time.

Our system saves both time and money, Mr Ingram said.

A small administration fee allows companies to search as many CVs as they wish and to read qualifications, skill sets and experience quickly and save into their ífavouritesí.

The company is in full control and contacts only candidates they believe are suitable.