I would say definitely that the location is the problem. There's
nothing wrong with Dubbo - I like the place - but to up-stakes and
move there would require quite a commitment on my part, and I'd need
to see a similar committment on the other side.
I originally came to Australia from New Zealand. The company that
transferred me, failed to honour the commitment to allow me home leave
back in New Zealand on a regular basis, even though it was in writing
("Oh that shouldnt have been in there! No, you arent entitled to home
leave - we dont have budget for it!" ) . So I had uprooted my
family, sold my house, brought all my belongings, said goodbye to
all my roots and connections in NZ, and found myself on my own in
Australia. Now it's true that Aust and NZ arent that different
and there wasn't all THAT much trouble settling in here, but it was
not factored into our decision whether to accept the transfer or not.
My wife had a terrible time with homesickness, and took a long time
to adjust.
I'm pretty sure that anyone coming to DET in Dubbo would want to be
certain that they're not going to uproot and move to Dubbo and have a
reasonable security of employment for a decent period. Not be left
without a job, and even fewer prospects of ColdFusion employment.
I think i remember seeing that job being advertised, and skipping
straight over it because of the location.
Or maybe you could consider some kind of remote or telecommuting.
Lots of people do it that way nowdays. I dont know anything about
how you guys work, but I would imagine from the perspective of the
employee, it would probably work if you had them drive to Dubbo for 3
days a month or something.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Mark Picker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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