(ALBANY, NY) ― Finding your next career or the best candidate for your company just got easier in the Capital Region. Matthew Gough, the founder and former CEO of Mercury Web Solutions today announces the formation of Propelity.com (www.propelity.com), a hire connection for companies and candidates. Propelity.com, a website where people can get what they want at every step of the recruiting and hiring process, is an online hiring management solution with affordable cost per applicant pricing.
"Propelity.com is not your traditional job bank. It is a leading edge online tool providing growing businesses and candidates with key information in the most relevant manner possible," said Matthew Gough, Founder and CEO of Propelity.com. "The most advanced capabilities help companies and candidates conduct customized searches, decreasing the likelihood of mismatched jobs and applicants, which saves time and money."
"Propelity.com is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the explosive growth in the online career marketplace," said Gough. "We are offering hiring solutions at all levels of experience to job candidates and companies in a refreshingly candid way to ensure the right fit".
According to Forrester Research, Inc., a tightening employment picture will drive online recruitment to grow an average of 13% annually over the next five years to $2.6 billion. According to Gough´s analysis, "these numbers seem low from my research and we anticipate the industry surpassing this projection in two to three years depending on national job growth."
Forrester Research also notes that more sophisticated recruiters will forgo listings altogether in favor of finding the right candidate in a database. Large companies have already adopted online recruitment, so growth will come from 1) online recruitment spreading out of corporate hiring into divisions and branches and 2) small to medium-size businesses that see their candidates - including skilled and hourly workers - moving online. Today 41%, almost half, of North American households prefer to use the Internet to search for job listings compared to 12% in 1998.
Visitors to Propelity.com will be provided with innovative tools and services for job listings, resume building and posting capabilities to empower candidates to proactively manage their own career and change the way people manage the recruiting process.
"The site offers candidates a community for the full online career experience," Gough noted. "Customized searches help them find positions that best fit their qualifications saving them valuable time during the job search process".
Propelity.com also makes it simple and convenient to insert personalized notes on electronic resumes, which makes it easier for human resource departments and companies to track potential applicants. Additionally, Propelity.com makes real-time relevant and effective recruiting a reality. Employers can recruit as soon as new positions open by posting jobs to Propelity.com themselves, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Matthew successfully grew Mercury Web Solutions during an economic downturn and led it to become one of the area´s leading locally owned technology companies with a total staff of 12 and revenues in excess of $1 Million. He led the company through an acquisition by accomplished national business executives with Fortune 500 experience and sold Mercury Web Solutions in September 2005 ensuring the new owners shared the company´s values for the clients, the employees and the Tech Valley community.