Mobile Job Seekers Find High-Tech Edge Over Competition

Mar. 7, 2007 — IdeaSIP, a leading global Voice over IP provider, has launched a service called IdeasIN that allows people to establish telephone numbers in the same location as prospective employers, giving mobile job hunters a competitive edge.

The job market is fiercely competitive, and the days of companies looking to hire employees from another country or another state are long past. Few companies even look at resumes from job seekers who aren't local. While many of these highly motivated and eager job seekers say they would be willing to pay their own way to move to another city if they were offered the right position, they often find that employers tend to consider only local applicants.

"Even though my schooling and background are good fits for the jobs I'm applying for, I rarely get call backs from employers outside my area at my home number," says Atlanta-based job seeker Justin Henderson

"I think it's just more comfortable to pick up a phone and call someone in an area code you live in. Human resource personnel who called my IdeasIN number to follow up about my resume would often hit me with small talk about the local teams or events. It was a real ice-breaker for them to hear that I was able to buy a phone number in their city, and it gave me a chance to tell them some of my strengths. It gave me that edge over someone else."

Susan Brauer, a recruiter in Silicon Valley, says, "I'm almost never asked to find someone outside the community. When I see a local phone number, I immediately put that person on my radar. To me, that shows that he's a local, even if he isn't living in the Valley right now. I know he's prepared for it."

Neil Fusillo, CEO of IdeaSIP's parent company thinks this new method of job hunting is the future of the job seeker market. "The Internet has brought with it a convergence of communications technologies that corporations leverage to create a significant global presence. And yet, with all the global thinking, there's still this incredibly local approach to offices and hiring practices, as few companies want to pay relocation costs. With more and more experienced professionals willing to relocate at their own expense to find the right job, IdeasIN numbers help job seekers use the same kind of global technologies as their prospective employers to break those barriers of tradition."

IdeaSIP is a global VoIP communications service that requires no monthly commitment or contract, and that peers with thousands of other VoIP service providers, offering free in-network phone calls as well as a host of other free services. IdeasIN phone numbers are real telephone numbers, reachable from any phone, and are available for purchase in most areas of the US and Canada, as well as in many areas in Europe, Australia, and Asia .

For more information, go to www.IdeaSIP.com.

For more information about this press release:
Amber Jusefowytsch: pr@ideasip.com