Sorry to Brian that my comment appears to be getting his question a bit OT :)
The first and I think maybe also the second attempt at recruiting was done solely through our normal channels. Advertising on our own websites, jobsnsw website, advertising in the local and capital city papers plus one or two of the larger jobs sites (seek, careerone etc). At the time the job was also restricted to being located in Dubbo (NSW). Further attempts expanded the location to anywhere in our area of responsibility (roughly 51% of NSW). I also posted the job on cfjobs, whirlpool and a couple of other recruitment sites. It was very disappointing as we had to go to a LOT of trouble to get this position as the NSW Govt were (and still are) in a staff freeze. We had to justify why this position should be excluded from the freeze, which isn't easy. We also looked at dropping the position back to a cadetship and other similar options but unfortunately those were knocked on the head (I'm guessing related to the freeze). While CF experience was desirable we weren't going to knock someone back because they lacked that skill. One of our previous developers came to us with .NET experience but no CF experience and was up and running with CF in weeks (some on here would know him, Justin Carter: www.madfellas.com). I have no idea if we will ever advertise this position again as the funding has now been allocated elsewhere for this financial year. Anyone that has worked for the government would know once funding is moved or removed you have a snowflakes chance in hell of getting it back. I do suspect the main problem we had was the location. Almost without fail whenever we advertise a job we get a lot of applicants who think Dubbo/Orange etc. is just slightly further west of Penrith but not as far as the Blue Mountains. I guess 400 -500km is only a couple of centimetres on a map. :) Cheers Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
