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Irish news, Jobs in Ireland, Jobyssey News, events, innovation
Houston, We Have Liftoff!
Jobyssey.com is live! As of this week, Jobyssey is available in a public beta version for software and IT workers and employers in the Republic of Ireland. What this means for you:
- Looking for a new software/IT job? If you take a few minutes to build out your profile on Jobyssey, you’ll be automatically shown jobs that fit you. As employers add new jobs that suit you, they’ll see your anonymous profile and be able to email you an interview invite. As always, no agencies, and your name and contact details remain hidden until you agree to interview.
- Looking for new software/IT staff? If you’re a direct employer of technical staff, we’re setting up trial accounts to let the you see what we’re all about. You’ll get several months of free job postings, and lots of individualized help setting up your profile. Pop over to www.jobyssey.com/IT-employers.php and drop us an email if you’d like us to send you some further details.
We’re really excited to have the site up and going- we’ll post updates as we go through the beta process and as we roll out new modules.
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innovation
Passion, Pop, and the Gulf in Between
Every once and a while, something leaps out of the daily blog read that completely reframes something and provides a whole new framework for looking at it. There’s a post on Seth’s Blog about pitching things to the small, committed fan group or the broader masses. Everybody knows there are these two groups you can aim a new product at, and we’ve spent plenty of time at Jobyssey debating this feature or that, and whether it was more important to keep things basic for wider appeal, or to add on the bells and whistles that the most dedicated users want to see. The “Aha!” moment, though is realizing that in between the small bell curve of passionate users and the much larger bell curve of mainstream users is a great, big trough. Equivocate too much, and you’ll end up with something too bland for the true believers and too quirky for the average joe. I hadn’t ever looked at it this way, but that probably explains the demise of a lot of seemingly good ideas. One to ponder.
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Jobyssey News, innovation
What Are We?
An ongoing theme throughout our start-up process has been the struggle to clearly articulate what we’re trying to do. We’re big believers in clarity, but Jobyssey has a lot of unique features that make it a challenge to spit out a phrase or two that leads to a lightbulb moment for the listener. Worse, people continually misunderstand and believe we’re a job board, or worse, a recruitment agency (this probably shouldn’t be a surprise since recruiters do spend quite a bit of time dissembling to get past gatekeepers). So, we try to explain that we’re a job and CV database, but that it’s our searching system that’s really unique, but also our attention to soft skills characteristics (especially for software jobs…), and that we have really high confidentiality standards, and no headhunters, and….suddenly everyone is nodding and smiling they way they do when Great Uncle Rufus starts in with the war stories again.
I feel like this is the critical challenge for us on the non-technical side of things, but unfortunately I haven’t had a lightbulb moment myself yet. Hopefully one day we’ll start explaining and see someone’s eyes light up right away, and we’ll know we’ve hit the nail on the head at last.
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CV, Ireland, Jobs in Ireland, innovation, job hunting
Business Development aaaaargh….
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…..
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Irish news, Web, innovation, technology news
Cloud Computing comes to Ireland
“Cloud computing” seems to be that new phrase you suddenly start hearing everywhere. First, we heard Ray Ozzie talk about it as part of Microsoft’s new business model in the Mix08 keynote address. Now we’re hearing about the new cloud computing center IBM will be opening in Ireland (via Silicon Republic and IBM).
To be honest, at first I was kind of confused as to exactly what cloud computing was all about, but luckily HowStuffWorks shed some light on that (as an aside, the power requirements of the main Google facility are pretty awesome in the Biblical sense).
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Irish news, innovation
Postcodes coming to Ireland?
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.
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