Network Your Way Through Christmas
December 5, 2008 by Geoff Jennings
Linkme
For the jobseeker and employers, Christmas is a quiet time. Thoughts of changes and restructures (and all those jazzy keywords that mean positions are available) are put on hold until post-festivities. job boards continue to exhibit their wares, of course, but activity tends to slow a little.
Sites like Hoojano and 2vouch will help provide more choice of 24/7 access for the recruitment industry into the future. In the meanwhile, however, there is always LinkMe.
Here’s my suggestion: subscribe to LinkMe over the break. While it is true that movement in the job market is put on ice for a bit, the new year brings with it a bunch of changes to workplaces that recruiters and jobseekers can take advantage of. So now, more than usual, is the time for networking. And the opportunities won’t arise from the mitigated job board activity. They’ll come from more passive means like networking sites.
Why bother?
They’ve just made their IT team redundant so no more investment in the thing.
Its been for sale for years anyway.
Its taken them 10 years to get 250,000 out of date CV’s together. Most recruiters have a better set up than that.
LinkedIn is much more effective at the networking bit anyway.
From a jobseeker’s perspective it is more local than Linkedin and seems to generate job enquiries.
From a recruiter’s perspective, I have placed a number of candidates sourced from LinkedMe and have paid up my subscription for 2009.
Therefore, despite your criticisms, it still does a good job.
The only other site I invest in is Seek.
Considering it takes minutes to get your resume on LinkMe and then the recruiters do the searching and matching. It is great for job hunters. People who are not sure what they are best suited for can be found for jobs they wouldn’t have considered.
LinkMe has helped 1,000s of people get jobs, and pretty much covers it’s costs for a year with the first placement. It is also doing the industry a favor by breaking new ground in the way people are placed, and now the job boards are starting to follow and build their own resume databases, and also integrating with networking sites.
On LinkMe’s redundencies, it’s true there have been some, like many other companies while the economy is a little chilly, LinkMe has decided to focus on it’s core business. The core and senior development team is still fully in place and focused on pushing LinkMe’s Search, resume and groups functionality.
LinkMe has over 10,000 new members each month.
LinkMe is Australian based and focused, it puts the candidates first and provides much better matching than anything else on the market for recruiters.