ˈIt’s not what you but who you knowˈ is a phrase that often pops up in connection with people who manage to land a job that to the innocent bystander seems way beyond them. Well this site positively encourages you to use your friends and any influence they may have to get you a job where they work but if you don’t have a Facebook account you can’t, at least for the moment, play along. It might be simplifying it a little I suppose. After all if you wanted a job and needed to ask your friends to put in a good ... Read more
I've had this great idea that I've been mulling over for the last few years to design and make sets of those cool retro flying ducks to hang on the kitchen wall like your grandparents used to have when you were a kid. But where do you sell them? On eBay? Create a Facebook page? Design a website for your product? All those things are good but really, the place you would be most likely to find flying ducks for sale would probably be the weekend market. Kraftwurx is kinda like an online market place where you can create and ... Read more
I love this, interviews might be a fundamental part of the hiring process but you can’t really gauge if the applicant could do the job once they’re on the payroll from a polite conversation over coffee and a Krispy Kreme. You’re also never quite sure how much of the resume has been dressed up. I once worked for a business where a guy applied for the position of Head of Operations. His resume stated quite clearly that he spoke fluent Dutch which might have been why our Dutch boss was keen to interview him. One simple question in the language soon ... Read more
Small to medium sized business tend to fudge their way through things on a lot of the organizational side of the business. Sometimes it seems easier to design and draw a chart on paper than to go through the whole rigmarole of spreadsheets fir your scheduling. Smart Employee Scheduling takes all of the hard work out of online employee scheduling, rosters and timekeeping. The array of tools featured give you all the armory you need to tackle payroll and invoicing issues in a simple and clear way saving you time and money. Smart Employment Scheduling is the quick and ... Read more
Well they’ve certainly got the name of this one right, it made me yawn just reading the description. I’m all for research into anything that might be of use to people’s wellbeing but this one doesn’t seem to have any real purpose apart from presenting you with a graph that will prove to your friends that you weren’t lying when you said you were having trouble sleeping! The app isn’t difficult to use, you sign in and then enter the details of your sleep experience. Having said that I’m not sure how you note the exact time you actually fell asleep as ... Read more
The job market is so tight at the moment that every little bit helps if it lifts you above the other candidates when it comes to employment opportunities. While you may have supplied your detailed resume and brilliantly worded cover letter that may not be enough to get you over the line. Truyuu is a job and employment tool that deals with people rather than a mere resume. Their brief is that they would like everybody to be energized and engaged in their place of employment and will go out of their way to match the right person with the ... Read more
Are you hankering for a change of employment? Do you have an idea of the business you want to work for? Maybe you've got this idea in your head of working for a specific company but dont really know much about them. Well CareerBliss is an employment app that can help you out there by providing company reviews by real employees, detailed salary information, local job opportunities and goes out of its way to help you find a job that makes you happy! Read more
Of the many weekly shift scheduling apps out there this one certainly looks to be up there with them as far as functionality goes with drag and drop features making the operation stress free and fast. If you’re still plotting your staff’s workload on a spreadsheet and then pinning it to the noticeboard you really should take a look at rotaville. You can still print out a copy of the weekly schedule if you like but with a good level of collaboration available on this system there are better ways to notify staff. Read more
Having access to the question paper before sitting an exam would obviously give you a considerable advantage but few of us have ever had that luxury. It strikes me as slightly comical therefore that a group of business school students have got together to develop a site that aims to give you the answers to questions that might arise when you’re being interviewed for a management consultant post. Read more
Trying to get a new job is a tough business in these tricky financial times. Gone are the days when you could just scour the newspaper and rock up for an interview unfortunately. Job seeking in the noughties (Ed - errrr, they finished a while back...this must be the teenies?) requires you to be well prepared and even better researched if you want to give it your best shot. Job-Buddy is a free employment organize app that contains all the tools and skills to find the perfect job and all the tricks in the book to help you to succeed ... Read more