{"id":28806,"date":"2015-03-09T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28806"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:45:31","slug":"exclusive-urbanlinker-launches-talentclub-online-tech-talent-auctionhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/03\/exclusive-urbanlinker-launches-talentclub-online-tech-talent-auctionhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanlinker founder Jonathan Azoulay launches "TalentClub," an online tech talent auctionhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf there’s one thing the internet is good at doing, it’s disrupting traditional businesses. When Breaz.io launched<\/a>\u00a0last August with a model similar to hired.com<\/a>\u00a0in the US,\u00a0providing a curated selection of 10 engineers each week that recruiters could ‘bid’ on, I began to wonder\u00a0how this would affect the bottom line of\u00a0France’s top tech recruiters: Mobiskill, Urbanlinker, Altaide, EdgarPeople, etc. (PS: all of them, and 70 startups, will be at Paris Startup Job Fair<\/a> on March 28th).
\nWell, the biggest sign that Breaz might have gotten to their telephone-oriented counterparts is this: Rude Baguette has learned that a new site, Talent.io<\/a>\u00a0(formerly\u00a0TalentClub<\/a>), which popped up on our radar and looked\u00a0similar to Breaz, is actually operated in party by Urbanlinker founder Jonathan Azoulay.
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\nThe\u00a0website, although\u00a0very<\/em> new (don’t go looking for a Facebook page or a Twitter handle), claims 200+ happy customers – these, of course, are likely to refer to Urbanlinker’s existing clients. In the above email clipping, which Rude Baguette acquired from a confidential source, we see Azoulay communicating with Edouard Tiem<\/a>, who is, according to LinkedIn, in charge of “Talent,” which provides a Top 10 list of Engineers whom recruiters can bid on, similar to Breaz or Hired.com.
\nMost interestingly in this situation is that TalentClub’s website, as well as Tiem’s profile, make it explicit that TalentClub is not “a headhunter,” which they describe as being slow and requiring many interviews and phone calls.
\nIs this a sign that the age-old headhunter model is changing? Not necessarily. Likely, headhunters,\u00a0especially established players who have built up a solid base of clients and work, are looking\u00a0to stay in front of any changes that might occur.
\nThe real question today is: does the top tech talent want to be put up on an auction block? The\u00a0testimonials on these sites certainly seem to suggest so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing the internet is good at doing, it’s disrupting traditional businesses. When Breaz.io launched\u00a0last August with a model similar to hired.com\u00a0in the US,\u00a0providing a curated selection of 10 engineers each week that recruiters could ‘bid’ on, I began to wonder\u00a0how this would affect the bottom line of\u00a0France’s top tech recruiters: Mobiskill, Urbanlinker,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}