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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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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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Irish news, Jobs in Ireland, Web, job hunting
Jobyssey Beta Launch Rescheduled for May 15, 2008
Jobyssey is joining the long, long list of software companies that have put off a beta or ship date and rescheduling our beta test launch for May 15, 2008. As we’ve been working through the development process we’re finding features that we feel we really need to have, and we’d rather push the release back by a month than put those features off to a later release. The database is in good shape, but we’re going to be using the next month to tune up these features:
- A complete applicant tracking process that records which jobs you’ve applied for and where you are in the application process;
- Improved searching logic to show you “almost match” jobs as well as perfect fits
- Improved CV parsing logic to automatically find as much info on your CV as possible (and save you typing in your search criteria)
Stay tuned for updates- we’re a bit snowed under at the moment hammering out exactly how the new features are going to work, but we’ll be posting about our progress as we get closer to completion.
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