Why seek when you can BeFound.com.au: 2009

When BeFound launched in July 2009 we ran a promo giving anyone who registered and created their on-line profile on BeFound.com.au a chance to win 2 return flights to the UK.

The draw was conducted yesterday in the presence of a Justice of the Peace (Qual) and the winner has now been notified.

I am pleased to announce that Susan from Mill Park, Victoria is the lucky winner and will be travelling to the UK in the new year.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Recent candidate activity

Enterprise Storage Systems Engineer - Sydney
.Net Software Developer - Melbourne
Accountant - Perth
Business Process Analyst - Sydney
Senior Design Engineer - Brisbane

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Friday, October 23, 2009

Latest profile activity

Ops Manager, Fleet Management & Logistics - Brisbane
Retail Assistant - Sydney
Compliance, Policies, Procedures - Sydney
Landscaping Labourer - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Recent profile activity

Senior Project/Program Manager (Business & IT) - Brisbane
Java / J2EE Developer - Brisbane
Mechanical and Automotive Professional - Melbourne
IT Trainer - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Recent candidate activity

Software Business Development - Melbourne
Senior .Net Developer - Brisbane
Assessor / Moderator - South Australia
Admin Manager - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Latest profile activity

Customer Service, Sales & Marketing - Sydney
Business Development Manager - Canberra
Retail Assistant - Sydney
Finance Manager/Accountant - Sydney
Personal Assistant, DTP, Business Support - ACT

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Friday, October 16, 2009

Latest profile activity

Training and Development Professional - Melbourne
Sales Manager - Sydney
Creative Communication Specialist - Sydney
IT Manager - Gold Coast

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Recent candidate activity

Management Consultant - Brisbane
MCSA IT Network Engineer - Gold Coast
Business Analyst - Brisbane
Die Setter/Mould Tech - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Recent profile activity

Senior Engineering Designer - Brisbane
Senior IT Project Manager - Melbourne
Web and Mobile Marketing Consultant - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Lastest profile activity

IT Network and Applications Manager - Melbourne
Senior Test Analyst - Brisbane
Office Manager - Brisbane
Finance Manager - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Monday, October 12, 2009

Latest candidate activity

Horticulture worker - Adelaide
IT Systems Engineer (MCSA) - Gold Coast
Medical Transcriptionist - NSW

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Friday, October 9, 2009

Recent profile activity

Financial Controller - Melbourne
Credit Strategy and Analytics, Consumer Banking - Sydney
Media advertising & marketing professional - Brisbane
Admin Assistant - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Latest candidate activity

Storeman/Forklift Operator - Brisbane
Derivative Markets Specialist - Sydney
Senior Business Manager - Sydney
Commercial Finance Manager/Financial Controller - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Recent candidate activity

Web Author & DTP - Melbourne
Academic researcher - Melbourne
Creative services and DTP - ACT
IT Manager - Brisbane

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

We've listened to your feedback

Based on your feedback over the last 2 months or so, it became clear that the need to enter Referee information was sticking point for many user.

As such we are now implementing a change to make Referee details optional and will be releasing the change this week.

Once live, this change will allow you to complete your on-line profile without entering Referee information - making it easier for you to BeFound!

Keep an eye out for the change!

Latest candidate activity

Call Centre Operator - Sydney
Senior IT Project Manager - Melbourne
Java/J2EE Developer - Brisbane
Senior Test Manager - Melbourne
System Tester - Brisbane
Senior Technical Consultant - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Monday, October 5, 2009

Recent profile activity

IT Infrastructure Specialist - Melbourne
Software (ERP) Engineer - Sydney
Sales and Marketing Manager/BDM - Brisbane
Superannuation Specialist - Melbourne

Is one of these your nest star employee waiting to BeFound?

Friday, October 2, 2009

Recent candidate activity

Hospitality and Events - Central NSW Coast
Admin Assistant - Brisbane
Commercial Finance Manager - Melbourne
Access and SQL Database Designer - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Latest candidate activity

Latest candidate activity:

Commercial Finance Manager - Melbourne
Senior Test Analyst - Brisbane
Telecoms Professional - Sydney
Admin and Finance Manager - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Less than 12 hrs to go...

Make sure you register before midnight tonight to be in the running to win flights to the UK.

Register now at http://www.befound.com.au/ and create your on-line profile today and you'll go into the draw to win!

Latest profiles....

Latest profile activity:

IT Change and Project Manager - Sydney
HR Consultant - Sydney
Relationship Manager (Banking) - Perth
Real Estate Professional - Melbourne

Is one of these your next start waiting to BeFound?

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Latest profile activity

Latest candidate activity:

C# Developer - Wollongong
Manufacturing Operations Manager - Sydney
Project Manager - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Register now - only 2 days to go

Make sure you register before midnight tomorrow to be in the running to win flights to the UK.

Register at http://www.BeFound.com.au and create your on-line profile today and you'll go into the draw to win!

Monday, September 28, 2009

New employer searches

Employers are searching:

Hospitality and Tourism - Brisbane
Accounting - Sydney
.Net Developers - Brisbane

Is your profile live and waiting to BeFound?

Recent profiles...

Latest profile activity:

Management Consultant - Perth
Sales professional - Brisbane
Executive Personal Assistant - Sydney
Commercial Manager - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Friday, September 25, 2009

Lastest profiles...

Latest candidate activity:

Doctor/Physician - Sydney
IT Support Tech - Sydney
IT Support Officer - Sydney
Red Hat Consultant - Brisbane
Office Admin Manager - Wagga Wagga

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Latest profile activity

Latest candidate activity:

Marketing Manager - Melbourne
Admin assistant - Adelaide
Web developer (CSS, Joomla, PHP, MySQL) - Brisbane

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Latest candidate activity

Latest profile activity:

.Net Developer (ASP.Net, C#.Net, VB.Net, VB6, SQL Server ) - Sydney
It Applications Support Consultant - Melbourne
HR Officer - Regional NSW

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Latest candidate activity

Recent profile activity:

SAP Consultant - Sydney
Business Development Manager - Sydney
Project Manager - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Monday, September 21, 2009

Calling Dynamics AX Consultants

Calling all Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Consultants in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.

Register and build your profile at BeFound.com.au today!

You could BeFound sooner than you think!

Latest profile activity

Recent profile activity:

Systems & Networking Engineer - Melbourne
IT Manager - Brisbane
Web Developer - Brisbane
Cisco Network Engineer - Brisbane
Farmhand - Toowoomba

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Friday, September 18, 2009

Recent profile activity

Recent profile activity:

Senior .Net Developer - Melbourne
Civil Project Engineer - Sydney
Electrical Engineer - Melbourne

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Latest profile activity

Recent profile activity:

Graphic Designer - Perth
Project Coordinator - Melbourne
IT Helpdesk Support - Gold Coast
Software Developer - Brisbane

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Just registered...

Political & military security and intelligence adviser - Adelaide

Is this your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Latest profile activity

Recent profile activity:

J2EE, PHP Web Developer/Designer - Brisbane
Admin Assistant - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Monday, September 14, 2009

Who is waiting to BeFound?

Recent profile activity:

SAP Test Consultant - Brisbane
Admin Assistant - Sydney
Mechanical Engineer - Sydney
Roads Management - Ballarat
Business Information Analyst - Melbourne
Project Coordinator - Melbourne
Graphic Artist - Brisbane
HR Project Specialist - Adelaide
Graphic Designer - Perth
Cobol/CICS/DB2 Programmer - Brisbane
Civil Engineer - Sydney

Is one of these your next employee waiting to BeFound?

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

There are already well over 1000 registers candidates on BeFound.com.au

There are 495 live profile available for employers to review.

Still almost 700 candidates that have registered and activated their accounts, but have not yet completed their profiles.

Why wait - complete and publish your profile and get set to BeFound!

Monday, August 31, 2009

Some recent searches....

Excel guru - Brisbane
Chef - Bicheno, TAS
Front of House Manager - Bicheno, TAS
IT Support - Brisbane
IT Dev/Account Manager - Brisbane

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Job advertisement index

There has been a lot of talk recently about the job advertisement index. This index is being used by many to cement claims that the job market is starting to recover.

Sure, there is no doubt that there are jobs out there, but how useful or meaningful is the job advertisement index?

The index is made up of the number of jobs advertised on each of Australia’s three leading employment websites – sounds pretty straight forward, but is it?

The number of jobs advertised is not actually a correct or direct representation of the job market. In fact it could be argued that this index is completely meaningless!

Take the following scenario:

A company is looking for 1 new staff member. Firstly there is no way to tell if this is a newly created role or a replacement, but we’ll leave that for now.

So, the company may advertise the role on 1 or 2 of the websites. Having not had much success the company engages 3 recruitment companies to help in the search. Each agency places adverts for the same role on the 3 jobsites that feed the index.

Already we have somewhere in the region of 10 or 11 adverts for the same single job!

Now add this into the mix. Most recruitment agencies buy job ads in bulk from the major job sites. They work on a monthly subscription and in most cases if the jobs are not used up by the end of the month they are lost. This means that in times such as now, agencies may post multiple adverts for the same role. They may place jobs in different categories or re-word the adverts slightly to appeal to a different market.

This very simple example shows that the job advertisement index is, in fact, pretty meaningless.

Monday, August 10, 2009

R2 - Employer functions

R2 of BeFound.com.au - Live.

Employers can now register, search and browse the candidate repository - FOR FREE!

Candidate stats are also live. Candidates can now see how many times their profile has been viewed.

More marketing hitting activity this week - hoping for another 2000 or so registrations by the end of next week.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

R2 will be live by the end of the week

BeFound Release 2 - Employer functions will be live by the end of the week.

Release 2 includes:

Employer registration
Search & Browse candidate repository
Full profile request
Candidate Mail alerts - allows Employers stay up to date with new candidates as they register
Candidate statistics - allows candidates to see how many times their profile has been viewed

Keep your eyes peels for R2 go live!

Monday, July 27, 2009

R2 in UAT

Release 2 (Employer functions) now in User Acceptance Testing.

So far so good. Functions generally look OK. We have a few issues with the Look & Feel, but functionally looks pretty good at this stage.

It looks like we may need to revisit the design side of things.

We need to decide if we are going to delay R2 until design complete or update the design post release. Some risk analysis required.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Great odds of winning the flights!

The current odds of winning 2 flights to the UK are 1 in 70! Yes 1 in 70! With odds like that - why wouldn't you register and create your on-line profile?

From round 4500 hits, we have had a 350 registrations so far. However, at this stage only 70 out of those 350 are actually eligible to go into the draw.

To be eligible you need to register and create/complete your on-line BeFound profile - so get registering & creating your profiles and you could be flying off to London!!

Better still you could 'BeFound' by your next employer and land an exciting new job.

The Employers search functionality is currently in UAT and is due to go live early August.

Monday, July 6, 2009

BeFound for Employers

BeFound - the new, cost effective way to search for new employees.

BeFound allows you to browse profiles by industry, skill set and region; and/or search using specific keywords. You can be as granular as you like to be sure that you only identify resumes and profiles that match your exact requirements.

Once you have identified a potential candidate you place your request on-line to view their full profile. As this stage you will be asked to upload a position description which we can present to the candidate. If the candidate is happy for us to do so we will send you a secure link to their full profile for your review.

Employers can search and view profiles without limitations for free. There is also no limit on the number of ‘full profiles’ an employer can request. All of this is completely free.

Once an employer is ready to proceed to interview they contact BeFound to arrange the meeting. The employer does not need to do anything - BeFound staff will arrange the interview with the candidate and will confirm the details of meeting with all parties.

BeFound operates a "PPW" policy ie 'pay per win' policy whereby the employer must pay a placement fee to BeFound once an offer of employment is made and accepted. The placement fee is currently $500 + GST. This fee is comparable with running casual job adverts on the top 3 on-line job boards. The big advantage for employers is that BeFound fees are only payable once a job offer is made and accepted. The fees to run an advert on Seek, MyCareer and CareerOne are payable up front with no guarantees that a suitable candidate will be found.

Why seek when you can BeFound...

Candidates - BeFound!

BeFound allows you to create and store your Resume on-line.

Forget all the other versions of your Resume that you have on different media lying around. No more lost USB key, discs or bits of paper. All you need is your username and password and an internet connection and you can access your most up to date Resume. You can update it, save it, print it, e-mail it, and download it. The advantage is that you can access your up-to-date Resume any time any place.

BeFound is an easy way for you to promote your profile to prospective employers for free. A public and completely anonymous version of your Resume will be available for prospective employers to search through, browse and review any time, any place.

The advantage of BeFound is that it eliminates the speculative and cold calls from employers and employment agencies, because all candidate profiles are completely anonymous.

BeFound is not a Resume mining site and only bona fide employers with current position requirements can request to see a full candidate profile. The full profile request is processed by BeFound staff and the profile is only made available to the prospective employer with the permission of the profile owner.

Why seek when you can BeFound...

Friday, July 3, 2009

What is BeFound?

So what is BeFound.com.au all about?

BeFound turns the recruitment process on its head introducing the concept of a 'Candidate Board'. The BeFound Candidate Board works in the same way as most popular job boards, but candidates are advertised rather than jobs.

BeFound is a revolutionary way to match job seekers to jobs.
The vision for BeFound is 2-dimensional

Give job seekers a single platform to create, store and update Resumes which will promote their skills, experience and advertise their profiles to potential employers.
Give employers a cost effective way to search for new employees or job applicants. The search is completely free and fees are only payable upon placement. This means that employers can save time and money when searching for their next employee.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

BeFound.com.au is live

Well following a lot of last minute panic we finally went live at 6.30pm on 1 July 2009.

It was a soft launch and we're going to use the next week as a BETA bedding in period before the marketing campaigns start on 10 July.

A huge thanks to the dev and test teams!

Come and have a look and join the employment revolution!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

To go or not to go? that is the question

In less than a week we have raised 105 defects. A great testing effort and thanks to all that have helped!

Right now we have 4 awaiting re-test and only 16 still in progress with dev team.

Our biggest problem is Microsoft!

Yes, no surprise, IE8 is causing us the most trouble. The dev team is getting there, but it makes you wonder what on earth Microsoft do with their applications to make them so hard to work with - especially their countless attempts at IE.

A lot of work still to do and approx 8 hours before we make "Go, No Go" decision.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

We're in UAT

The software was dropped into Staging at a bit before 5pm yesterday.

We are having some issues with IE6 and IE8. At this stage it looks like a lot of the problems are browser related.

Some tidy up required to make the package easier to use and a bit more intuitive.

Overall pretty happy with where we are. 38 defects raised so far.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Final countdown!

We are now on the final countdown to staging and UAT.

R1 should be delivered to Testing this afternoon and we currently have 8 tester lined up for UAT!

Very excited to see what R1 looks like - I've only seen conceptual designs and story boards so far.

Friday, June 19, 2009

End of a good week

The week has gone from average to really good.

Development agreement now agreed

All static info delivered

Design concepts 98% there

Code almost complete

5 Testers lined up for next week

Stationery designed and at print

Promo items at print

Launch competition prize confirmed

All on track!

In fact it's all going so well, I'm off to Byron for the weekend!

Need a few more tester, but I'll worry about that on Tuesday.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Todays plans...

Today we need to finalise all the T&Cs and legal copy. Fun, fun, fun!

All legal copy must be ready to drop by tomorrow.

Launch competition

Launch competition prize announced - Flights for 2 from Australia to the UK!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Design 95% there

The design for Release 1 is about 95% there. some final tweaks and we're ready for UAT next week.

Once we sign off on the design the code will be dropped into the template and hopefully it will all fit...

Great news at the end of a hard day!

Sponsorhip has fallen through

Our preferred sponsorship partner has surprised us and will not be pursuing this opportunity. Less than a week to come up with Plan B.

Sponsorship

Working to secure launch competition sponsorship. This is proving harder than you may expect!

Need to get sponsorship nailed down by 23 June to allow designers enough time to put together marketing creatives.

Static copy

Today we completed most of the static copy and e-mail text.

All text has now been delivered to the developers for final drop once the design is completed and signed off.

It's close

The employment and recruitment revolution is closer than you think.

In a little over 2 weeks the face of Australian recruitment will change for ever!

Over the coming weeks you will be able to follow tasks and progress as we get ready for the launch.