The Australian Public Service must be doing something right, as far as keeping its mature workforce. For the rest of employers keen to retain experience and skills here’s a few pointers from Hudson (pdf). Over and above that, Australia now has Adage, a vertical play in the region, powered by nowhiring.
Update: related US launch of eons a social portal aimed at 50+ individuals, founded by Jeff Taylor, of Monster fame (HT to exceler8ion blog).
via seth’s blog, an interface to get to the aggregators
Tell me if it’s a bit gimmicky; the form might be, but i like a couple of actual options:
- the screen keyboard (getting ready for mobile..?)
- the preset equalizer levels (for the newbie-ish)
1 – the bit of code in the share section to paste a link to your CV onto your website, blog, etc needs to have password protection as an option. I might not want to show my resume to every single visitor.
2 – distribute an applet or whatever its name is these days to get job boards, agencies, vertical search engines, to enable job seekers to submit their emurse cv from their site. I know it’s a catch 22 as in noone wants to do it if no job seekers demand it but better be ready.
3 – grab applications information from the sites mentioned in point 2 to populate our current send/history section. This are might not get used in its current stand alone form
…. if convenience will reduce your product benefits.
cases in point:
I am not interested in buying a subscription to the big issue; part of the purchase experience is to have a chit chat to the street mag vendors – the majority of them homeless people. It is a very sobering exchange on the way to the office.
I won’t be organising direct debits to give money to the church’s charities so i don’t have to worry about it … when my kid asks me during mass as to where our donation goes when it’s time to hand it in, i get to explain a bit of the world he doesn’t know. Opportunities to talk about poverty don’t come easy, you know (and I am not swimming in it, just in case)
are you making it too easy for your customer?
got to hear from emurse via michael a few days back, and first impression was ‘so what?’. but i am usually pretty bad at making sound judgements from first impressions, so i went back. Asked the system to download the resume I had put up when testing for the first time; the following unbranded message came up:
We’re under a ton of load right now from unexpected recent press, and we’re really sorry.
Like, super duper sorry. Someone’s going to get fired kind of sorry.
Try back again in a few minutes while we get this worked out. We’re adding more servers tonight.
I am sure there’s a good reason why new ventures get to be a bit of a victim of their own success: maybe they’re like seriously bootstrapped and noone’s giving them an extra buck if they can’t show them traffic. I guess I was amused rather than annoyed ’cause it was not a critical transaction to me, but also I felt the message was fresh. Or maybe I am just a compassionate user, which is not antonymous to being a passionate user
1 – when someone uses a chapstick, everyone else around licks their lips
2 – when someone uses their cell, pda, or mp3 player, everyone else looks and the youngsters pull their own (device)
3 – book reading is more popular than newspaper reading in the coach
4 – product sampling at wynyard station looks at successful as it ever was
5 – vertical job boards are starting to advertise the traditional way
I had a couple of visitors from the london office last week, and they brought me a listing of the vertical sites available in the UK (e.g. the focuss on a profession or region or industry). The list was amazingly long.
Truth is I had no feel about the number of vertical players in Australasia. So I’ve started pulling some of them, from search, referrals, etc. The work in progress links can be checked at my delicious bookmarks. I’ve started to select these using the following arbitrary criteria:
- it’s a local player
- it’s not a recruiter/agency
- it focusses on less than 5 verticals
- it is not an aggregator of someone else’s jobs (not that there’s anything wrong with it)
- it actually contains jobs (e.g. no empty job results pages)
This is not an overly ambitious undertaking, but hey if I can pull a few needles from the haystack at a time, I’m happy.
Pass it on if you think it will benefit someone, and by all means let me know of any other entries that need to be added.
