Denver native Bill Foster is selling job seekers.
Last week, he launched , an employee-driven website where people looking for a job post a video resume. The fee is $100 to set up your video on the site, then $35 a month to stay on it.
“Internet marketing is the future,” Foster said. “We’ll have chat rooms on the site. Human-resources professionals can get in a chat room to give tips on how to get a job.”
Foster, a self-described “techno dunce,” said he was motivated to set up the website because he has two daughters about to graduate from college.
“The job market is terrible,” he said. “This (website) shows a person’s creativity and personality before employers bring them in for an interview.
“We’re about three things: jobs, jobs, jobs. We’re trying to get people jobs by giving them a one-up to do that. You can’t see on a piece of paper what someone is like. You can’t see their personality.”
Foster says the upside for the employer is the money- saving advantage of not having to fly a prospective out-of-state employee into town and put that person up in a hotel.
“If the employer could have seen them online, the employer would save a lot of money,” Foster said.
Ditch the denim.
Just because you’re playing the par-3 course with the owner doesn’t mean you can break the rules. On Sunday, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter showed up at Green Valley Ranch Golf Course wearing jeans before flying back to Washington.
But it’s a no-denim course, so owner Pat Hamill loaned Perl mutter a pair of rain pants to disguise the denim.
“Rules are rules,” Hamill said.
Tough talk.
In these tough economic times when folks all around you are losing their jobs, homes and businesses, the Denver Women’s Press Club presents a timely topic: “What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say,” by Laura Watt, a registered nurse with The Denver Hospice. Lunch and program is $10.50 at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the Denver Women’s Press Club, 325 Logan St.
Reservations: Susan Fedel, 303-985-9287 or e-mail ghostwriters@usa.com.
Chef success.
Ryan Hardy, top toque at Montagna at the Little Nell in Aspen, has been nominated Best Chef: Southwest in the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards.
Winners will be announced during the annual Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception on May 4 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York.
Eavesdropping.
A smartly dressed 20-something woman, talking to her friends while walking into the Cherry Creek mall: “Ah, the air in the mall is just so invigorating.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-630 AM. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.
