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Improving Vawch. . .
September 3rd, 2008 in Random musings
I’ve been toying with some ideas to which we can improve Vawch. I would certainly love to get some feedback from everyone out there.
1. Instead of paying out the referral reward only after 3 months, I’m thinking of underwriting some risk and pay up ¼ of the reward immediately upon signing and ¾ after the 3 months. Though it is risky, I believe it’s a way for referrers to get something upfront for the introductions they have made.
2. Anonymous referrals - Perhaps you may not know the person well enough to share the opportunity with the person. The anonymous function will allow you as a referrer to send a referral e-mail to them without disclosing your entity. However, you only get to know if the referral is successful only X weeks after the candidate has signed up with the new employer (I’m assuming the person, vice versa, is not comfortable letting you know that he / she has applied for the position)
Any other suggestions?
2 Responses to “Improving Vawch. . .”
Hi,
It is possible for you to add a resume upload feature, then:
1) scan the resume for keywords
OR
2) let the use associate keywords with their resume. This will help with the alerts
Jobserve.co.uk (or JobServe.com) seems to have got a right mixe between getting random job listings
Cheers,
Russel
By Russel on Sep 9, 2008
Russell,
Thanks for that thought. I’ll bring it up during our next meetings.
We struggled with that a little since we are a referral model versus a online job board like Jobserve. We weren’t sure if people’s social networks were likely to be within the job function / industry.
By Ben on Sep 9, 2008