30/04-09   -   Press releases

CV Comming to live

By Møller Christensen Thursday May 30 April 2009, 06:04

Inventors launches database where you can build relationships through CVs and update his career with one click.

You take the functionality of Facebook, seriousness of LinkedIn, inclusiveness from job centers databases and creativity from the slideshow world Monday and then combine it with business people and others´ love for manageable, electronic contacts.

So it has been broadly Comoto.com, the new website where you can gather all his contacts in the form of their CVs, be sure that their CVs are true, and where you have a current Curriculum Vitae . A CV to enter new relationships with. And a resume that is ready to be sent out if a new drømmejob prove.

- The world consists of relationships. You build trust through relationships, often through a community site on line and get in the way friends and contacts. The idea we have created Comoto.com from. This site is a sort of technical Facebook, where you instead of sending a CV can invite to a relationship, says Kren Erik Nielsen.

The 47-year-old Copenhagen and cand.merc ´is itself a not so little impressive CV, having been finance director at CW Obel A / S, responsible for business development at Coloplast A / S and also served in numerous company boards, often with a co-ownership in the company. He seemed, like the other behind Comoto.com that the world lacked a serious, electronic resume database, which could benefit both job seekers, employers and those who just want to gather the relevant job search contacts.

In the style of the great popular community site Facebook has its own profile as to be constantly updated, so it is current. In ten seconds you can for example add a new skills gained through courses, with just one click is the same cv updated around in all relationships. Comoto.com ask not whether we will be friends with the director Andersen ", but if you want to exchange links with him.

Facebook is fun

- At Facebook, you must be allowed to stand and look silly on a picture from the Roskilde Festival, and you have no control over what is being associated with your profile page by others and what your contacts have to see. The idea of Comoto.com is to be the business community, where your relationships are closed in and can always follow your professional development. Facebook can be retained as a page where you make fun, but it might not be just the spot to write that you are looking for jobs, says Kren Erik Nielsen.

It is his impression that there is some fraud with electronic CVs and for example shows the annual survey by The Risk Advisory Group (trag) among people in Britain that one in three job applicants lie on their CV and that women in their 30s are the worst liar. There is decked up to 77 percent of career records.

The rigging will Comoto.com come to life at that exam diplomas and other certificates will be on the page. The software behind comoto.com in addition to one´s CV is presented beautifully and contemporary with it, in favor of it.

You can make it as a flash show or supplement it with images or stylish graphics, depending on what type you are.

SAP and experimental rabbit

Comoto.com is already available in a generic version on the Internet, and later this year released the final version of the website, which must strike the entire world, and where Denmark is not really any primary audience. The approach is global, and the German and Russian market is right now in the pipeline, due to the international Comoto team, consisting of a German Internet expert and a French girl.

Comoto.com has a sister site, Comozap.com, the first of several specialist communities, which will be even better opportunity to describe their qualifications. ´Skills Maps´ called and Comozap.com tested today by the consultants in the large software company SAP AG in Germany, who have accepted the CV relations application with enthusiasm.

Both Comoto.com and Comozap.com falls under the company Comoto A / S, which is based in Copenhagen.

Kren Erik Nielsen Kren holding Holding ApS owns the third, the two founders Chris Plant Energy and Boye Hartmann owns another third, and finally is Danish and foreign investors for the last third.

- It was Chris Plant Energy and Boye Hartmann, originally got the idea to build a web site, where instead of having a physical cv built relationships which provided access to an always up to date CV. SAP world and an old resume database known us, and we took the technology from there, but re-took the site should work. And it´s really good that we now have it tested by SAP consultants, so it is through the work product that we send to the streets, says Kren Erik Nielsen.

The course was missing

His ambition is that the job centers and unions will take Comoto.com to as the CV program. He can not see why they should not. While other resume databases currently running in their own isolated system Comoto.com will be able to exchange information with various other CV databases, for example of Ofir and LinkedIn, and so the user need only make their CV once.

- It makes Comoto.com convenient for job seekers. The employer can Comoto.com save administrative effort, because you can set the system to automatically match job seekers after 14 days, the application has been received. And in a crisis where you really want to say ´Peter and Poul, I have to fire you, but I hope not, I get another job´, Comoto.com can also help. If you have people like relationships, can maintain contact, but with distance, says Kren Erik Nielsen.

In Comoto.com and Comozap.com work established four persons, and also operate a small handful of people in the firm´s outsourcing partners. It is among other a development in Egypt and designers in Germany and Denmark. Comozap.com available today in English and German, but several languages, including Spanish and Portuguese are underway.

How the idea for Comoto?

- The idea arose as a response to all the CV databases that exist today. Most do not have modern facilities, including web 2.0 links and it would be too complex to put her resume everywhere. We are different and using modern features known from Facebook and LinkedIn to build relationships and have an open approach. We can and will work with other CV databases, because it is an advantage for the candidate. You will be able to synchronize their data between databases, and also we ensure that the candidate has full control over their data. He or she determines what it shall be used, how it is presented, and who sees it.

How will I earn money?

- For the specialist sites - such as Comozap.com - we give HR departments, recruitment firms, headhunters and others the opportunity to search for exactly the specialists they need, while they can build relationships with the right candidates. They can even manage recruitment dialogue. It pays for the and we have a large and even growing interest in this already. We also have dialogue with businesses and unions, which see value in that they can get an overview of their employees´ skills and manage their recruitment processes.

Who are the competitors and what differentiates you from them in?

- There are a number of CV databases, but what differentiates us from them as described above. There are a few sites in the UK and the U.S., which similarly allows you to create very beautiful CVs purely visually. Visual CV is an example of it.

How places of business?

- We use the usual methods on the Internet. It´s actually one of our strengths that more of us come from advertising and the Internet community, and we then combine the experience with the CV database experience. We also have a close dialogue with users and with a number of companies seeking SAP specialists.

When budgets with a surplus?

- Since we have a flexible business model without many fixed costs, it is not so far away - unless we choose to increase the number of communities more than planned. It costs a bit in the beginning.