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I received a number of invites to join NotchUp, a site similar to LinkedIn, but with one big difference: you, as a participant, set a price company should pay to talk to you about a professional opportunity. I joined to check what it was like and I invited a couple of people who might be interested in this. But about five minutes later, I realized that it doesn’t make any sense.

There are essentially two cases, if a company wants to talk to you:

1. This is a job that you would like to take: in this case, you really want to talk to them, and you don’t want them to wonder whether they want to spend some money just to get your email address; what you want is the job, not money for the interview.
2. This is a job that isn’t of interest to you: you’re not going to start moonlighting for a new company, Interviews With John Smith LLC, whose business model is to do interviews with companies you know you’re not interested in.

The main attraction is that they promise you a 10% cut on the money that your referees will make. So if you want to try to get rich by doing interviews, and make me rich by the same token, leave a comment below and I’ll send you an invite (it looks like the service is still invite-only).