We’re in the process of finalizing design decisions for our key pages- the pages most people will be using once the site is up and running. Serendipitously, I came across this article on Web Design From Scratch that summed up the (heretofore inarticulable by me) design principles of web 2.0. The characteristics singled out were:
So as you may or may not know, Jobyssey is a start-up web company designed for IT employers and IT talent. The general idea is to create a comprehensive search site whereby IT professionals can find opportunities suitable to their skill sets, and employers can find experienced IT professionals in Ireland. Sound like a good idea? We thought so.
It is a fact that Human Resources officials spend most of their time trying to identify potential hires for their respective companies in order to meet the business requirements. Realistically, most of their time should be spent with developing initiatives to improve the work life of the professionals currently employed by the company. The primary reason for the time spent on identifying new hires is that highly skilled, experienced people are hard to find. HR staff have plenty of resources available to them in order to identify potential staff ie. job boards, agencies, print ads etc. The trouble is most of the time these methods are ineffective and costly.
So the challenge now is to try and relay the advantages of Jobyssey to very busy hiring managers and Hr staff. After several frustrating phone calls, and a fair amount of hair being torn out, we have decided that cold calls is not the way to go. We are now creating a flash demo “presentation” of the site to distribute to potential employers so they can review t in their own time. What do you think of this idea? Do you have any innovative business development ideas of your own? Any suggestions greatly appreciated…..
Ok, so your making progress. It took you a while to get your CV just right but your starting to get bites and you have just been called for an interview in a software house. PHP development is your thing, you are really excited about it and would love to secure this position. What to do now?
First off, in the immortal words on the cover of the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - Don’t Panic. It is important to prepare for an interview, but it is also important to remeber that an interview is primarily to gauge your fit into an organisation. Your PHP skills have already been verified by your CV and sample of your code. So just be yourself, and that realistically should not be too difficult.
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With a diverse population working in IT/software/telecom jobs in Ireland, a whole variety of CV formats are floating around out there. It’s a cliche, but even with great experience a confusing or inadequate CV can get you screened out early in the process, or worse, it can give the (mistaken) impression that yo have something to hide. Sometimes it’s just crummy CV writing you can see the world over, sometimes it’s adhering to a format that isn’t really common in Ireland/ Europe. To have a CV that gets positive attention:
Eirepreneur says that Garmin Satnav will be creating its’ own system of Irish postcodes for ROI from the end of March on. You’ll be able to visit www.irishpostcodes.ie to get a code, and you can see more detail here. There are some sample codes up there- they will be 7 character (letter and number) geographically based codes.
Hopefully Google support will be added soon- we’d love for Jobyssey to have a location search feature (always important in Dublin), but without postcodes it was pretty much impossible to get a good result.