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Talentpair
✓ verifiedPaid
AI-assisted recruiting platform combining a branded job board and candidate pre-screening, billed mainly via a pay-only-on-hire fee.
422 visits/mo
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Outlier AI
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Outlier is a platform where experts earn freelance income training and evaluating AI by writing prompts, rubrics and rating answers.
12M visits/mo
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Mercor
✓ verifiedFree
Marketplace that matches vetted human experts with AI labs to produce training data and model evaluations.
8.9M visits/mo
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Core features
- ✦AI matching and ranking of applicants against job requirements
- ✦Automated candidate pre-screening with interview notes
- ✦Custom-branded company job board
- ✦Built-in applicant tracking without a separate ATS
- ✦Pay-only-on-hire placement fee pricing model
- ✦Large network of active candidates for sourcing
- ✦Remote AI-training gig work
- ✦Tasks: prompt writing, rubrics, rating answers
- ✦Flexible hours, work from anywhere
- ✦Weekly, quality-based pay
- ✦Roles across coding, STEM and languages
- ✦Free access to paid AI models
- ✦Curated roles across many expert domains
- ✦Expert vetting and matching to AI projects
- ✦Hourly-paid contract work for specialists
- ✦APEX benchmarks and off-the-shelf datasets
- ✦Enterprise data partnerships and evaluations
- ✦Daily payouts to contributors
Use cases
- →Startups hiring without a dedicated in-house recruiter
- →Companies wanting to cut time spent on candidate sourcing
- →Teams wanting an all-in-one job board and ATS
- →Employers preferring to pay a fee only upon a successful hire
- →Earning side income as an AI trainer
- →Contributing expertise to improve AI
- →Flexible remote work for grads and experts
- →Gaining hands-on AI and prompt experience
- →Source expert human data for AI training
- →Run domain-expert model evaluations
- →Find paid remote work as a domain specialist
- →Build custom datasets for AI labs
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