The Muse charges enterprise employers an annual subscription for candidate marketplaces
Catherine Minshew · 702: With $5k Left in Her Bank TheMuse Was Launched, 50m Visit Annually and 600 Companies Pay · Jun 26, 2017 · at 5:25
Catherine Minshew, CEO and co-founder of The Muse, describes the platform's enterprise business model and software capabilities.
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“Essentially we have these businesses of various sizes that subscribe to the Muse. It's an annual subscription. And through that, they get a range of different tools. They have the ability to literally have a profile on the new site and hire from our community, but also we give them a number of tools embeddable sort of, I don't know, widgets for lack of a better word. I need a better word for that. And measurement and analytics sort of dashboards that allow them to understand How they're doing across different pieces of their recruiting funnel and optimize not just the recruiting they're doing on the news, which is the marketplace component, but on their own career site through their own social channels, et cetera.”
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