One possible option is to keep ixda jobs free but give corofloat an additional opportunity to display their jobs on ixda. You can charge them a minor fee of 25 or 50 dollars per position. A lot of paid job boards like Dice and Careebuilder do that where they partner up with other job boards to display listings on other sites and have a partnership where they pay them a small amount to list the jobs. Advantage to Corofloat will be they will get an additional place to list their jobs with relevant target audience. Corofloat can also let the job posting people know about the partnership with IXDA showing an increased value. Advantage to ixda will be some funding contribution from corofloat, additional job postings and can still keep their own free postings. May be ixda to do some job related funding can sponsor a banner every month where the banner can direct people directly to company's website.
Harvinder Singh 210-614-4198 O 210-884-1311 C [email protected] www.bestica.com Bridging the UX/IT Talent Gap My Linked In Profile Follow Me on Twitter View Besticas Current Openings Visit our booth at UPA Conference in Portland in June Contribute to Usability/Design Challenges Through Our Blog *$50 coupon code BST9 for How Design Conference in Austin For Bestica Friends and Fans -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Damon Dimmick Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:57 PM To: Maria De Monte Cc: Forum Interaction Design Ixda Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Conan Team to IXDA members]: Paying job posts to fund IXDA activities&other issues Hi Maria, I think the biggest danger in losing job postings is in edge cases. If my company posts a job, and I'm simply trying to let my fellow interaction wonks know about it, there's no chance at all I would bother considering that posting fee. I think you'd find almost unanimous agreement with that sentiment. For recruiters and companies looking for IxDers, it makes total sense, but can we work out some system by which members can forward jobs from their parent companies without having to pay a fee? After all, that's almost like a community service, expsoing our fellow IxDers job opportunities in a recession economy is one of the core benefits of having an association like this. Unless your model would also permit users to post jobs in the forums without penalty, it might result in a net loss of postings. I don't have a strong opinion on this, I'm just using my self as a generic persona example. If I found out that there was a job at my company, but my company was unwilling to pay a posting fee, what could I do with that information? If I could still post it to the forums, well, no problem, but if I would have to pay a fee, I would not bother. Just some thoughts. Sincerely, Damon Dimmick SitePen Inc. Maria De Monte wrote: > Hello IxDA members, > > IxDA is considering undertaking a partnership with Coroflot (http://www.coroflot.com/) to handle the job-related posts that now come through our discussion list. We need your input on this question! > > Coroflot > has hosted the Job Board at both Interaction conferences, and they're > eager to work with us. Here are a few lines from Coroflot's "About Us" > page (http://www.coroflot.com/public/aboutus.asp): > "Coroflot was started by designers, and is still run by designers [.] > Coroflot is an open system. There are no membership requirements, > application processes, or invites. [.] Coroflot is the creative world > at work." > > To pursue this partnership, IxDA would integrate a Coroflot-hosted > Job Board into our upcoming new website at IxDA.org. > Additionally, there is a possibility for Coroflot to provide us with a > portfolio service, so that IxDA members could have a personal > portfolio at IxDA.org and reach a wider audience. To see some examples > of how Coroflot provides partner-branded Job Boards, some of their > partner sites are with: > > Business Week (http://jobs.businessweek.com/a/all-jobs/list); > > Design Observer > (http://designobserver.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp); > > AIGA (http://www.aigadesignjobs.org/public/default.asp) > > For IxDA members, searching for jobs and having an online portfolio > would be free. However, POSTING a job would involve a $265 fee paid to > Coroflot that would be split 50/50 with IxDA. This income provides a > potential revenue stream to fund IxDA's activities at the global and local level. > > However, > we are concerned about having a possible conflict with IxDA's current > totally-free philosophy. We don't want to lose job postings that may > be coming from IxDA members who do not have a budget for posting such > opportunities. Additionally, we would have to work with Coroflot to > customize their service so that we can ensure that local job postings > are displayed/accessible from the upcoming Local Group mini-sites. > > So, here are some of our questions to the membership: > > 1) > Would you pay a fee to post a job at IxDA.org using Coroflot's > service, knowing that half of the fee you'll be paying would go to > fund IxDA activities? > > 2) How would you want to deal with other job-related opportunities such as internships, PhD, part-time positions and so on? > > 3) How valuable would the portfolio service be to you? > > 4) Should a Coroflot-hosted Job Board at IxDA.org display available > jobs in categories OUTSIDE of Interaction Design? The other > specialities they presently handle include fields such as > Architecture; Art Direction; Design Management; Industrial Design; and Motion Graphics. > > Please let us know your thoughts-we're waiting for your contribution! > > Regards, > > Maria and the IxDA Conan team > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe > ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines > ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help > .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... 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