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New Digg-like service called Talent Spring may end job portals?

Duncan at TechCrunch delivers a lovely story with the announcement of Talent Spring, an interesting idea that on the surface offers a job portal with Digg interactivity, but under the hood holds so much more. So much in fact that his post sent too many people to their site at once and crashed their servers.

We are waiting patiently for it to come back online and allow us to take a look, but for now, you”ll need to settle for the TechCrunch review::

Seattle based TalentSpring launches today with a unique product that has the potential to disrupt the online resume marketplace.

Headed by former Windows Live Development Leader Bryan Starbuck and Andrew Boardman, TalentSpring brings the ideals behind social voting sites such as Digg to the resume marketplace. But it would be unfair to compare the service to Digg and its army of clones; it’s just difficult to compare it to anything else.

Like traditional resume marketplaces, TalentSpring is database of resumes from those seeking work or looking for new employment opportunities. Where as tradition resume marketplaces are generally search driven databases, categorized by user submissions based on location, experience etc, TalentSpring uses a ranking system to rate resumes so that top resumes float to the top of TalentSpring whilst lesser resumes drop.

Resumes are ranked by other job seekers. Upon signing up and submitting your resume, to have your details included on TalentSpring you must score 12 sets of other candidates in your own professional area.

The voting system is a one resume or another proposition x 12. Users are presented two resumes side by side and must mark which candidate they feel is better suited for a position in that particular field.

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