Amitai Givertz’s Recruitomatic Blog

The problem with being a boomer is being so easily bamboozled. The source of today’s bamboozlement is ki work, a “new model” for brokering professional relationships and outsourcing projects.

The site aspires to being a marketplace where ki work acts as the intermediary for globally dispersed talent that is otherwise available in everyone’s virtual backyard.

I don’t understand why reasonably good ideas go to market with nothing more than a reasonably good idea, do you?

When you have to register to see “open projects” that have a single posting for a commission-only sales jobs for who knows who — Nestor Makhno’s auntie? Impossible! — it gives one a new appreciation for the familiar things like picking up the phone and making cold-calls.

With apparently no content, jobs, projects or any thing at this time other than the founder’s mug-shot explaining why there’s nothing of interest one leaves with the disappointment of missed opportunity on every level. Not even worth the money to buy-in to the venture, downline revenue.

And I have to say, being guided by a couple of corporate finance advisers who look like they’ve been called away from a gig at the London Palladium to take care of a tooth ache isn’t very inspiring either.

Bummer.