Inside…
- More job ads – how?
- Registration-of-Interest ads – what are they?
- getstaffed emails – controlling ‘em
- The community – you’re in great company
Not sure what’s it’s been like at your place, but the unflappable getstaffed team have been freezing here in Wellington. Still, all the cold weather is just great for lifting the hood and doing some work in the getstaffed engine. So, here’s what we’ve been up to.
We are partnering with bunch of hand-picked recruitment firms to allow them to advertise contract roles at getstaffed.com. These will generally be the recruiters who get a good rap over at Rate My Agency.
We’re doing this beause we want to pull out all the stops to help you find the best contract. Our current hiring business tend to prefer to search the database for your profile, so partnering with the top recruiters will help create a vacancy ads that let you know what’s out there.
When business or recruiter advertisers post a job, we’ll send a jobs alert email to all getstaffed members who have a job skills match, and who are flagged as ‘Available’. We know it’s a pain having to trawl job boards looking for fresh opportunities – so the idea is that we’ll bring them to you directly.
Note that recruiters will not be able to search to the getstaffed database, so they won’t be able to contact you unless you respond to a job ad. Once you respond your profile will go onto a shortlist and they can get in touch.
We are introducing a new Registration-of-Interest service. An ROI allows our getstaffed business to advertise a new project before it’s officially launched, and for you to express interest in getting involved. This differs from regular job ads, which must be created for a specific role that is confirmed and ready to be filled… hopefully by you!
ROI’s works much the same as a regular ad, and the advertiser can ask for a range of skills covering those likely for the project. We’re hoping that this can help projects start more efficiently.. so your contract can start sooner.
We recently introduced some options to allow you to control which emails you receive, and how often. Most of these options allow you to set explicit minimum periods between emails. For example you may want to be contacted about new job opportunities no more often that once a fortnight, or once a month.
The only regularly scheduled email we have to send you is the availability email. This is so that your availability status is always up-to-date, which is critical part of you publishing your profile to prospective clients.
We’ve put together a flow diagram of the Availability Email mechanism which describes how and when these important emails are sent.
If you are working a contract then just click ‘Not Available’ link in the email. You’ll be taken to a landing page where you can enter the date when your contract finishes. We won’t send any more availability emails until close to that time.
Oh, and we also give away movie tickets each week to someone who has updated their getstaffed availability.
The getstaffed community now includes more than 1550 registered contractors, and it’s growing all the time as you and other getstaffed members tell colleagues about us.
We’re grateful for you doing this as it has helped getstaffed become the largest most up-to-date pool of IT contractors in New Zealand.
Greg and I remain totally committed to helping you find the best contracts.
