A new, dedicated website for recruitment in the Lotus/IBM field
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About a year ago, staff in Bluewave/BE Systems were discussing recruitment sites in general. Although mostly positive, the problems associated with them typically centred around inaccurate job specifications and vague applicant details. Also we noticed that there was a general inability to ask questions relevant to our specific areas of interest. We toyed with the idea of creating a dedicated careers site in the Big Blue field, focusing on finding the right people for the right jobs in our professional area. This led to staff here kicking the tyres on a site and a design. This led to a few meetings, a domain name ordered, and a more formal approach taken. This led to a slightly more serious plan, and a timeframe to get it ready in about six months from then.
Recent changes in the job market encouraged us to fast track our idea. There are many great skilled people now out of work, and there are still advertisements for skilled positions. So, we give you www.blueskills.net a dedicated IBM skills recruitment site. This site is FREE to use and is especially for people looking for positions in these fields and for people with positions to advertise. Go for it.. Go nuts and take a look about. Its still beta, but functional and we are still working on it. Tell your friends about it. Blog it! Let people know that if they are in this area, they can look for new jobs, or even post positions to get the "right" person here, for free.
There is some work to be done on this site still, so enter Ideajam. Bruce has kindly setup an ideaspace for us and it is linked on the homepage. If you want to improve this site, place your suggestions there, and we will review and implement them.
We are hoping to make this a community effort - if you want to help with the design of this site and put in a few hours to add functionality, contact me and I will try to get you access.
Update: I know there are some registration issues with the site. We are working on it!
About a year ago, staff in Bluewave/BE Systems were discussing recruitment sites in general. Although mostly positive, the problems associated with them typically centred around inaccurate job specifications and vague applicant details. Also we noticed that there was a general inability to ask questions relevant to our specific areas of interest. We toyed with the idea of creating a dedicated careers site in the Big Blue field, focusing on finding the right people for the right jobs in our professional area. This led to staff here kicking the tyres on a site and a design. This led to a few meetings, a domain name ordered, and a more formal approach taken. This led to a slightly more serious plan, and a timeframe to get it ready in about six months from then.
Recent changes in the job market encouraged us to fast track our idea. There are many great skilled people now out of work, and there are still advertisements for skilled positions. So, we give you www.blueskills.net a dedicated IBM skills recruitment site. This site is FREE to use and is especially for people looking for positions in these fields and for people with positions to advertise. Go for it.. Go nuts and take a look about. Its still beta, but functional and we are still working on it. Tell your friends about it. Blog it! Let people know that if they are in this area, they can look for new jobs, or even post positions to get the "right" person here, for free.
There is some work to be done on this site still, so enter Ideajam. Bruce has kindly setup an ideaspace for us and it is linked on the homepage. If you want to improve this site, place your suggestions there, and we will review and implement them.
We are hoping to make this a community effort - if you want to help with the design of this site and put in a few hours to add functionality, contact me and I will try to get you access.
Update: I know there are some registration issues with the site. We are working on it!
Comments
won't accept 1Applesoft_200 as a password
Sean
Posted by sean cull At 20:23:28 On 12/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Steve McDonaghq At 19:55:32 On 12/03/2009 | - Website - |
I wanted to keep it as a niche area, with required authentication to view/search stuff that interests the domino browsers, hence the authentication.
Anyone else think that is a bad move? We are open to suggestions.
Posted by Paul Mooney At 13:01:25 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by William Medley At 13:10:02 On 16/03/2009 | - Website - |
Cheers mate!
Posted by Lars Berntrop-Bos At 23:13:10 On 14/03/2009 | - Website - |
'years of experience' on registration form doesn't allow people with more than 10 years experience to truthfully register. People who have been working with Notes since R3, say, need to be able to select >15 or something like that.
Posted by Ian Scott At 21:10:20 On 12/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Rob McDonagh At 03:09:59 On 14/03/2009 | - Website - |
US or other countries should be listed for registered people.
10+ years of experience, or at least 10-5, 15-20
Diploma and Degree mean the same thing to your average American. try BSc, BA, PHd, MBA..
Also you should have a space for certifications as this can be a requirement from some clients.
Skills include migrations, Sametime, Quickr, Connections, Domino.Doc
Posted by Keith Brooks At 20:28:48 On 12/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Keith Brooks At 20:24:01 On 12/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Paul Mooney At 08:10:21 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Lars Berntrop-Bos At 23:13:10 On 14/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Lars Berntrop-Bos At 23:05:49 On 14/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Marie Scott At 12:22:19 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
On the flip side, recruiters sometimes don't post their job because they want to avoid being inundated with (mostly unqualified) candidates. Instead they look at profiles that match their requirements, except many interested candidates don't post their profiles out of discretion. The narrower focus of Blueskills.net might encourage more submissions from recruiters.
Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 18:22:23 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Marcus Foerster At 05:29:23 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Dave Armstrong At 12:44:48 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
from ian Bradbury:
"I just signed up to the Bluewave job site. Being an inquisitve type I decided to have a look under the hood - from my browser. Supprise supprise it seems the site has no real security.
Please visit the site and remove your personal details - just over type your details with rubbish. The site security is so poor - I could edit your profiles myself, however I just don't have the time.
I've emailed the site and I've emailed all the profile owners. Good luck.
Ian
ps. A lesson for us all here...."
Posted by William Medley At 19:04:58 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Victor Toal At 00:25:14 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Speaking of: the 'login' link on the home page (under Find a Job) doubles the 'blueskills' directory path, so the link doesn't work. It's this:
{ Link }
but it should be this (taken from inside the 'Register' section for Job Seekers):
{ Link }
Also, the 'Status' value being passed on the url is different (Seeker vs JobSeeker), but presumably shouldn't be.
Oh, yeah, good idea. Cool site. Kudos. We will now return you to our regularly scheduled criticism...
Posted by Rob McDonagh At 01:39:23 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Vamsi At 04:53:12 On 13/03/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Keith Brooks At 20:22:06 On 12/03/2009 | - Website - |