Dating Websites for Busy Professionals

For singles involved in demanding professions, personal life often takes a backseat. Even when there is time and scope to go on a date, finding the right partner becomes an onerous task. Thus despite a plethora of dating sites, weeding through unappealing profiles to find someone you wish to go out with can be a time-consuming affair. So if you are a busy professional and looking for quick effective ways to find dating partners, here are some sites you can explore.

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One of the first places you should go to are the sites which specifically cater to busy professionals like you. And one such dating site is FastCupid.com which is filled with smart, professional people hoping to be matched up quickly with compatible partners. The niche area targeted by FastCupid.com is intellectual dating even though within that, the range of relationships may range from casual and long-term to friendships. Catering to users with an active lifestyle, FastCupid.com appears to be a sophisticated site with high tech features. Here apart from the usual communication modes of video chat and instant messaging, members can also choose to go for video introductions in order to make their profile more appealing to other members. Billed as the dating website for ‘sexy and intelligent singles’, the designers at FastCupid.com have ensured that online dating process is speedy and that there are short-cuts to minimize time spent on routine procedures.

Apart from niche dating websites you can also look at matchmaking sites which offer personalized services to pair you up with a compatible date partner. One of the most popular names in this circuit is It's Just Lunch, a dating service that specializes in busy professionals. They have been in business since 1991 and have 65 locations nationwide and two new international locations in Toronto and Singapore. Their website claims that over 95 % of their clients have college degrees and almost 70% have advanced degrees. In this case, a client meets with a director for a one on one interview where they discuss core values, parameters, lifestyle and interests. From this interview the director hand picks a match; the agency does all the work - arranging a lunch date, drinks after work or weekend brunch at one of the great restaurants in your city. However there is usually a substantial fee charged for services. According to the It's Just Lunch website, "It is quite simply the best way to meet quality educated people in a discreet, no pressure atmosphere."

Two For Drinks is yet another Matchmaking service in the same lines which caters to the relationship needs of busy professionals, executives and industry leaders. This matchmaker service has thousands of people in the Los Angeles area and is especially popular because of their speed dating events.

Click Dating Agency is another service provider in the field of matchmaking which claims to cater for professional or executive singles between 25 and 55 and operate throughout Gauteng. the agency will not only hand pick every date that you go on but also arrange the whole date by coordinating the meeting place, time, pick-up and for your convenience do not give your number out before the date.

Another category of dating sites becoming increasingly popular with busy professionals is the niche area of speed dating. At the speed dating event, you will meet around 10-15 other singles, each for eight to ten minutes, during which you can exchange essential information and get a basic idea of your partner. After the 'date', you'll have a couple of minutes to write on your scorecard whether or not you'd like to get to know this person better before moving on to the next candidate. At the end of the evening, you turn in your scorecard to the event host and usually after a day, you receive a response with a list of others that also wanted to meet you. This works well for busy professionals who need not waste time on the dinner and a movie routine only to find out that they don’t click.

SpeedDate.com is the one of the world's first and most popular online speed dating site which allows you to go on multiple 5-minute dates from the comfort of your home using a number of communicative features. Members span a wide range of ages, religions, sexual orientations and preferences meaning the Speed Date community is interesting and diverse. There are a number of other advantages to using the Speed Date system over the styles of online dating offered by other services - here users have an opportunity to actually get to know a little about their date, including what sort of person they are and how they look like.

HurryDate.com is another speed dating website that offers a combination of traditional speed dating events and parties alongside a number of great online dating features. This combination ensures that members have the opportunity to meet some of the most eligible single professionals from across Canada and the USA – perfect for those who are too busy to meet singles in the regular manner.

Another site which is quite popular in the speed dating category is PreDating.com. In fact it is also one of the oldest and largest speed dating companies in the U.S., setting up shop in 1991 and hosting more than four thousand people every month through 103 different venues. They are also the only speed dating company to cater to single professionals. PreDating offers a match guarantee: if you do not find at least one person you are interested in getting to know better after a speed dating event, PreDating will allow you to attend another speed dating event at no cost. On average, fees seem to range around the $30-40 USD mark for early registration and the $40-50 USD mark for all registrations after the early bird date.

For busy professionals who want something other than the merry-go-round of partner selection, a good way to choose the right person for a date is to organize it on the basis of mutual preferences. Howaboutwe.com is just such a dating site which places more importance on the date idea as compared to partners. This has several advantages over conventional online dating – the first is of course to put dating back where it belongs – in real life. Here users need not waste time with endless browsing for like-minded profiles and online messaging. Also the premise of the site directly connects members to those who share common interests and hobbies. Unlike in the usual run of dating sites, here you don’t have to spend hours in chatting or emailing other members only to find out that you barely have anything in common. Since you and your match are brought together at this site on the strength of shared interests, the process is not only far more natural but also more likely to translate into a real date. And who knows if things work out, it could also mean the start to a meaningful relationship.

Another site designed on a similar principle is Swoon.com. The special thing about this site is that it puts the focus directly on the dating interests as well as dating likes and dislikes of the member.  Unlike other dating sites, Swoon.com is not interested in asking its members to take a lengthy personality assessment or present them with a report of potential suitors.

Finally for professional men and women who are definitively looking for a committed relationship, a good idea is to check out sites based on mutual compatibility. A longtime favorite in this category is eHarmony which specifically caters to singles who are serious about forming meaningful relationships. This is a good bet for professional singles who do not wish to waste time by contacting other members only to find out that they are merely looking for a hook-up.

MactchAffinity.com is a similar site launched by the people behind Match.com, a far more popular US dating website A compulsory part of signing up with MatchAffinity.com involves taking the site’s ‘affinity test’ which is actually a comprehensive personality assessment On one hand, it allows a member to get his/her own comprehensive personality report and on the other, this makes way for the profile of an ideal partner for that particular personality type as well as a list of suitable matches based on a similarity percentage between that particular member and every other member in the MatchAffinity community. The main advantage of the Match Affinity Test is that it allows a member to weed out incompatible matches and focus on those potential partners who might share his/her way of thinking even before having any contact with them.

Another general dating site that professional singles can check out is OKCupid.com since it makes use of sophisticated technology to match its members.  According to the site, this mechanism is extremely accurate, as long as you’re honest about your preferences and answers and you know what you want. Most other matching sites are more in the manner of personals services - either their “matching” systems are nonexistent or overly subjective. While the site does not claim to evaluate you perfectly, it is serious about finding someone who claims to fulfill your claimed requirements, exactly.

The virtual option may seem convenient for busy professionals who can chat or mail a partner while at work or commuting at a late hour. However it is important to realize that dating sites are only a means to an end, in this finding a partner.
Eventually you will have to make time so as to give more space to your personal relationships besides putting some effort into bringing about a better work-life balance.