let’s hope it is not an Aeron
I am still scratching my head about thebigchair. Maybe it’s that Fairfax got me used to the sleeker mycareer and the newest channel looks blunter that it really is. Maybe it is early stages and there are really, really big changes for the site already under way. Maybe for the next release I can actually search for jobs, as opposed to just be able to browse, and browse.
If I had it my way, I would have not wrecked the fin review online a few months ago and would have sprinkled big chair content all over and around it. Imagine a smooth bubble or dialog box or something prompting people for an exec role with a company when there is a news piece about that company and you hover on the article. You did not even have to spend money to build another brand and drive traffic to another career site. And if you are thinking “what happens if the news is not good for the hiring company?” well it can’t be that bad to provide a potential applicant with relevant information, can it?
Other than that, one of the benefits for the site as explained in recruiterdaily, is that visitors can make expressions of interest, without submitting a CV; I guess the research Fairfax made shows this function is a plus because seniors don’t like to send their CV online.
Three points on this:
- my theory is that top-end candidates do not want to send their CV’s to people they don’t know or haven’t heard of. Resumes from senior professionals fly all over the internet via email, once relationships are built. So this is not a channel issue, this is a trust issue; information resolves the issue: information about the employer, the agency, the consultant, the job itself
- a serious recruitment process does not kick off without a resume, period. That may be something you and I don’t like, but that’s how it works at the moment. It will take significant changes for recruiters to do away with the document in its current form and substance
- the majority of the current advertisers to thebigchair, within which you can find the larger agencies, still prefer to by-pass the expression of interest jig and request for applicants to use the advertiser’s own apply online engine. So, not much damage done.
