DG
17-01-2004, 11:18 AM
As some of you guys know I enjoy doing various events.
And had this idea that I think could help people find work.
I used to work as an IT contractor and the worse thing about finding a new contract or job is having to deal with IT employment agencies.
Everything is like cloak and daggers, they'll post vauge details of some job on a website but they never tell you any kind of specifics and they'll never tell you who the company is because they are worried you'll go to them directly. Most won't even tell you the area in which the jobs are.. and I foudn they treat people pretty badly because all you are to them is their next commission.
I plan to do a big event in London (to start with) to help match up employers with jobs on offer with people that want those jobs - cutting out the problems and hassles of going through an agency.
The idea is to cut out the middleman and meet the employers directly face to face and have maybe up to 10 job interviews in one night.
A company will do perhaps a 10 minute presentation of their company and the job they have on offer and then people there looking for jobs can ask questions.
Then the next company comes up and does the same, until maybe 10 companies have done a presentation. Then after a break and some food the interviews begin and people go up to the booth of the job they liked the sound of and with their CV in hand have a maximum of an initial 10 minute interview. And then on to the next booth, so maybe they can have upto 10 interviews in a night if they are lucky.
Then maybe the companies can call back the people they think suitable later on in the week at their own premises.
So that my idea ... I have no idea how I'd get the ball rolling on this one, quite a lot more difficult then doing a singles event.. but what do you guys think of the basic idea?
Part of my aim is to also cut down the huge chunk of cash agencies get so that more goes to the employee - I know what it's like to leave Uni and go for that first job through an agency only to discover for every hour you work the agency gets more money then you
And had this idea that I think could help people find work.
I used to work as an IT contractor and the worse thing about finding a new contract or job is having to deal with IT employment agencies.
Everything is like cloak and daggers, they'll post vauge details of some job on a website but they never tell you any kind of specifics and they'll never tell you who the company is because they are worried you'll go to them directly. Most won't even tell you the area in which the jobs are.. and I foudn they treat people pretty badly because all you are to them is their next commission.
I plan to do a big event in London (to start with) to help match up employers with jobs on offer with people that want those jobs - cutting out the problems and hassles of going through an agency.
The idea is to cut out the middleman and meet the employers directly face to face and have maybe up to 10 job interviews in one night.
A company will do perhaps a 10 minute presentation of their company and the job they have on offer and then people there looking for jobs can ask questions.
Then the next company comes up and does the same, until maybe 10 companies have done a presentation. Then after a break and some food the interviews begin and people go up to the booth of the job they liked the sound of and with their CV in hand have a maximum of an initial 10 minute interview. And then on to the next booth, so maybe they can have upto 10 interviews in a night if they are lucky.
Then maybe the companies can call back the people they think suitable later on in the week at their own premises.
So that my idea ... I have no idea how I'd get the ball rolling on this one, quite a lot more difficult then doing a singles event.. but what do you guys think of the basic idea?
Part of my aim is to also cut down the huge chunk of cash agencies get so that more goes to the employee - I know what it's like to leave Uni and go for that first job through an agency only to discover for every hour you work the agency gets more money then you