Fast Lane Ventures, a business incubator based in Moscow, announced the launch of Upladder.ru, the first Russian online job search service reserved for professionals with a monthly salary of more than 100,000 rubles, or $3,500.
Among its distinctive features, the company claims that each résumé is systematically checked before publication. In addition, “job seekers receive a professional assessment of their résumé with recommendations to improve it,” says an Upladder news release.
Although its design looks rather basic, the site offers some interesting functions. In particular, job seekers can import their résumés from LinkedIn, the international professional network which launched its Russian version last month.
The service is free for job seekers, but Upladder intends to introduce premium functions starting from August 1.
A number of prominent Russian and international companies have placed job offers on the site, including Gazprom, Luxoft, PWC, Rusal, VimpelCom, and VTB. Upladder.ru plans to attract no less than 10,000 companies by 2015.
Upladder’s concept was inspired by the US site TheLadders and international site Experteer. FastLane Ventures says it invested over half a million dollars in the project.
Fast Lane Ventures was founded in Moscow in early 2010 by two Western businessmen, Pascal Clément and Oskar Hartmann. Clément is a French serial entrepreneur who, among other activities, launched Russia’s biggest offline catalog-sales company in the late 1990s. A German citizen born in the Soviet Union, Hartmann is a former e-business consultant known for launching KupiVIP.ru, Russia’s first private online sales club, in late 2008.
Fast Lane Ventures claims it brings projects from the idea stage to completion in a mere “50 days.”
