Hi, Forwarding an interesting reply from the founder of JobScore about telecommuters recruitment. Nothing Earth-shaking, but it's a good overview of the situation.
If you have ideas on how to tackle this issue, I'd be happy to hear them : ) Xavier. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Dan Arkind <[email protected]> To: Xavier Antoviaque <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: JobScore sign up Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:37:50 -0700 Hi Xavier. Thanks for you thoughtful question. What you are doing is very progressive. 1. I understand and appreciate your problem. Unfortunately, most job boards really don’t. We require that you enter a location value for all jobs in JobScore because the job boards we partner with / syndicate to require them… i.e. we wouldn’t be able to provide the benefit if one-click job syndication and tracking if we didn’t. 2. This is largely due to a few things, including: a. Almost all people work onsite, and location is extremely important to most job searches b. Most large job boards have many, many jobs and they use location as a filtering criteria – i.e. it’s easier for people to use job board if the board filters to only show local jobs. c. Many leading boards require location so that you have to purchase more postings. i.e. – you’ll hire someone in New York or LA? Great – buy two postings. 3. So, that said, what’s the deal? Here’s what our customers who want to hire someone who will “work anywhere” do: a. They list the location of their “headquarters” on all job descriptions. Sometimes this is the address of the founder’s home J b. They very prominently display the fact that this is a “work from home” and/or “telecommute” opportunity on the job description. The good news is that job descriptions are searchable, and people looking for this kind of work often use specific keywords to find these opportunities. c. They sometimes end up posting the job in multiple locations where there is a high concentration of talent – for instance, if you are looking for game industry talent, you might want to post in southern California and the bay area as well as a few other spots. In this case, you’ll need to enter the job more than once in JobScore, or edit it and re-post it a few times (if you move forward with us, I’ll be happy to walk you through this) d. In a few instances they choose not to post through jobscore for boards that offer an option for telecommute jobs (which we currently don’t support) 4. This “location independent” thing tends to work better for hiring contractors, and services like www.elance.com, www.odesk.com and others are specifically designed for you to find and hire contract workers “anywhere” I hope this answers your questions and happy hiring, dan From: Xavier Antoviaque [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:37 AM To: Dan Arkind Subject: Re: JobScore sign up Hi Dan, I'm one of the founders of Farsides, a new video game studio. We are looking to fill two positions, a game writer and a game designer, so I'm currently looking at the tools that could ease my tasks. I use the opportunity to ask you a question that I couldn't answer through the online video or the demo. Because our studio is based on the Open Source model, we work using a "virtual office", meaning that everyone works remotely, spread across the world. The impact on recruitment is that we are able to recruit from any country, as long as the person is willing to work remotely. How do you handle job postings in such cases? Is there a way to select multiple locations where to post the job offer, or even a "worldwide posting" offer? Thanks, Xavier. On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 11:15 -0700, Dan Arkind wrote: Hi, There is a mis-match between the company name, URL and email on your sign up. Could you please let us know what company you represent and what position you are trying to fill before we click you through to use jobscore? Thanks, dan ---- Dan Arkind Founder & CEO | JobScore 415-320-6230 | Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn
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