Created from the ground up less than half a year ago, ResumUp has suddenly assumed a presence on the Russian startup scene. From a “pretty obvious idea” – building infographic résumés using data from social media profiles – ResumUp aims at no less than “setting a new standard in career management, online and social recruiting,” said 33 year old St. Petersburg entrepreneur and ResumUp founder Eugene Barulin in an exchange with East-West Digital News.
The future will determine the prescience of Barulin’s ambitions on the global market for online job search and career management, but it is already undeniable that ResumUp technology, developed in just a few months, offers an amazing user experience with no major bugs.
“We are filling a gap left between visualization technologies like Visualize.me or CVgram.me and network recruitment approaches like Branchout.com, and professional social networks and job search sites,” explains Barulin.
Unlike many original Russian applications, Barulin designed the ResumUp solution fully in English, targeting clients – mainly recruiting services and HR departments – on the global market. And for English speakers accustomed to the often sketchy English versions of Russian tech, the seamless and very hip English in the ResumUp interface is not only refreshing, but integral to its functionality.
Barulin has so far invested $150,000 of his own capital to develop his technology. “I wanted to move fast, so I hired two agencies to develop the initial prototype,” he says. “One, 2Nova Interactive, has world class developers and designers. The other, Michael Kechinov Web Development Studio, has its strength in programming.”
More advanced versions of ResumUp, which Barulin plans to release in the next six months, will include additional online recruiting, social recruiting and career planning tools.
Last week, ResumUp won the ‘startup battle’ at the annual TechCrunch Moscow conference. Just three days before, it walked away with the first prize – competing with over 500 projects – at Web Ready, an important startup contest in Saint Petersburg.
Barulin does not plan to approach investors immediately. “Before that, we must prove our capacity to attract and keep users, and monetize.”
