Earlier this week OneWire was featured in BusinessWeek's list of "America's Most Promising Startups." Now, in an exciting article from the Silicon Valley Insider, a subset of Business Insider, OneWire is making headlines: "New York Startup OneWire Goes After LinkedIn, The Ladders."

The article picks up on the three key points that separate OneWire from other job boards, niche sites, and professional networking platforms:

1. OneWire works almost exclusively with "structured data". Candidates provide lots of information about their education and employment backgrounds, but all of their responses - down to job title and specific responsibilities - are selected from a discrete number of possible answers. So no search engine - in the web sense - is needed; recruiters set what they're looking for and how heavily to weight each criterion, and the service returns the candidates that match most closely.

2. OneWire is entirely confidential. Unless they specify otherwise, candidates' profiles are never made public. When a recruiter does a search, she can see a list of profiles that matched her criteria well, but can't see the profile or get any further information about the person. Instead, she can email matching candidates about the job and request that they reveal themselves.

3. OneWire uses a bounty system to produce better results. Recruiters who don't find a candidate they love in the first iteration of their search can set a bounty on the position. They then send this information out to good - but not good enough - candidates. Whoever refers the person ultimately hired can collect the bounty - without ever revealing herself. If referred candidates still aren't good enough, they can be offered the bounty themselves, and a new wave of referrals comes in. 

Now is a great time to be a candidate on OneWire and to spread the word to any friends or network connections that are serious about managing their careers. OneWire is changing the way firms find precisely the right candidates for their open opportunities and the way candidates manage their careers. Let OneWire help you achieve career success - sign up today.