jobs drought…
the contract market seems a little slow right now, and Andrew and I were coming up with strategies to deal with these inevitable downturns.
Our problem, or situation rather, is that there will be times when we don’t have many jobs. Its the nature of the business, and indicative that we have lots more to do to raise getstaffeds profile in the market, and convince some… more conservative… organisations that we are legit, and actually the best way to find people.
Of course, we compared ourselves to the situations on seek, or any of the recruitment agents. Our thing is, we only advertise real jobs. Jobs that have been posted by real companies, for a real position that they have a real need to fill.
All real. But how many times have you responded to an ad on seek and “the position has been filled”, or “that project is delayed (or cancelled)”, or “registrations of interest in an upcoming (nonexistent) project”. And how many times have you responded to several ads, only to find out that theres only one position?
All this happens all the time. We all know it, and seek loves it! More ads, more money. Recruiters get to capture cvs, in case something comes up, and it looks good.
We need lots of members too, we’re up front about that. But… all our job ads are real. Really real. When you respond to an ad, you don’t respond to Andrew or I. You respond directly to the company.
And if we don’t have job ads… we will tell you. Straight up. Everything on getstaffed.com is real. And we commit to keeping it that way.
