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Workyourcareer.com today launched a new One-Click Referral Service that allows employees to post jobs from companies where they work, receive resumes and forward those resumes as referrals to the appropriate hiring or recruiting manager.

“With our new One-Click Referral Service, we wanted to give people an opportunity to mine their way into companies when they otherwise wouldn’t be able to do so,” CEO Mark Thomas said. “Job seekers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the ‘black hole effect,’ whereby they submit resumes through a company’s traditional online submission process, only to never hear back from the company or not know if the company has even received his/her resume. Our tool puts your resume right in front of the correct person who should be reading it.”

The new service allows job seekers to create a profile and upload their resume. Job seekers can then search and apply for jobs that have been posted by employees at companies they’re interested in. If an employee receives a job seeker’s resume and likes it, they can then create a personalized e-mail and refer the job seeker to the hiring or recruiting manager working on that open position.

Job seekers pay 99 cents for each resume that an employee forwards to a hiring or recruiting manager. There is no cost to the job seeker if their resume is not passed on. Employers and employees don’t pay anything to post their jobs or receive resumes. They do, however, receive 25 cents for each resume they forward to a hiring or recruiting manager.

In the near future, the company hopes to add new features to the service. One such feature is the ability to automatically pull job openings from companies so employees don’t have to manually enter jobs.

Workyourcareer.com also underwent a complete site makeover, making it more Web 2.0 friendly. The redesign is meant to make the site easier to use, more fun and laid-back in appearance.

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