Experteer Review – Experteer Premium Subscription Service Review
During September and October 2008, I was an active user of Experteer.com’s premium subscription and these are my honest feedback and review of their services.
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated with any Recruitment Company, Job Portal, HR Company or Headhunter. The thoughts shared here are only from my personal experience. Any recommendation is based only on my opinion and nothing else.
The web / Usability…OK
In general, I must say that I am satisfied with the usability of the site. Filling out the forms and entering your profile data is easy and intuitive. The advanced search criteria and additional filtering capabilities are really cool. The website allows you to refine your search results by salary, km away from your base city, country, and a scoring system. It doesn’t have as many features and capabilities as Monster, but I’d say it’s okay.
Exposure to headhunters… Really?
One of the things they advertise is that Experteer is the place where all headhunters in Europe go to look for candidates… Well, it may or may not be true, but the only thing I can tell you is what has happened to me Profile: It was viewed 1 (yes, once) by a headhunter during the 2 months I was subscribed to their service. Just to clarify, I had my profile 100% complete (so there was no excuse to exclude me or downgrade me because my profile was incomplete). If there’s one thing they need to work on, I’d say this is where they need to get more recruiters/headhunters to use their service.
Access to “hidden” offers… NO
One important thing is that they do not have access (at least in my experience) to exclusive or offline job opportunities; that is to say, everything that you will be able to find in Experteer is already online. This is an important clarification because many specialized headhunters, and more specifically in the job market of more than 60,000 EUR, do have positions that are either exclusive to them or not advertised.
Access to real job offers of 60,000EUR+?… YES
In fact, this is one of the few but important positive things that I got from their service: they have a wide, up-to-date and real database of job offers that offer salaries of more than 60,000 EUR; not like other online recruiters. Of course, you will eventually find some broken links or offers that appear in search results, but have expired, but I’d say this happened in a small percentage of the time. A rough estimate would be that 90%-95% of the deals that appear in your search results are real, have not expired, and are, in fact, positions over €60,000.
As a conclusion, I would say that if you have a lot of time to research (perhaps if you are unemployed), it may not make sense to pay the premium subscription since most of what you will find you can find. yourself. On the other hand, if you don’t have a lot of time or maybe you’re still employed, you might not get any exclusives or deals, but you can save some time by doing your research…and if you’re earning more than £60,000 a year, it might be worth it. worth a try for 25 EUR per month.