While filtering applicants at rozee.pk from a pool of hundreds of CVs we received for 2 of our recent jobs for SEO Interns and Snr. SEO Manger, I have realized that how a majority of applicants are possibly destroying their own careers by not reading the Job Description before hitting the ‘apply now’ button.
Despite of writing in the Job description that these posts are for only Lahore based candidates, we literally were swarmed by out of station candidates. There were almost equal amount of CVs of candidates from other cities and all of them without any cover letter. Cover letter is important too but that’s not the point I am going to make here. There were loads of CVs which were not relevant to the job at all still the ‘apply now’ button seemed attractive enough to them to try their luck. But excuse me, that’s the ‘bad luck’ you are in fact clicking. No, it does not really matter how juicy you are, if we are going to get apples, we would not settle for oranges. Did you ever realize how this supposedly ‘little’ action on your behalf, makes employers job more difficult which can very well cost you any relevant future employment opportunity in same company. I know it may seem hard to you but please do yourself and employer a favor of not getting into the temptation of spontaneously clicking the ‘apply now’ button. It is not a ‘lucky draw’ and NO, you are not increasing your ‘entries’ of winning a job this way.
And man, I desperately wish to have an infraction system with a ‘spam’ button at rozee.pk to report users who send their CVs without reading the Job Description. While thinking for a solution, thought to share this idea which really worked for one of my client in the past on moderating a large community. Hope you can make that work for you as well.
How about an infraction system, Monis? Where each spam report by employer would earn the candidate an infraction and upon reaching ‘x’ infractions, candidate’s ability to click ‘apply now’ for a job automatically gets restricted. (Passing on another line of revenue where you can actually milk some more cash from candidates as well by putting a cap on the number of jobs they can apply in a month.) So one way or the other, this can help reduce spontaneous applicants to a posted job resulting in better service for employer, professional grooming for candidates and less load on your servers. 🙂
What do you guys think?
Good idea!
infect infraction system is used in vbulletin as well. i like the most is no of applying on rozee.pk can be restricted and as u said can be divided in no of memberships. as well as online certificates can also be introduced as freelancing sites have. this will ensure that this candidate have the basic skill of what he is applying for and Employer can also see that score as well.
I strongly agree. Wastes a lot of time in filtering resumes.
@Rafeel; yeah wastes a lot of time.
@Usman: well, usman their has to be some fine ballance in the infraction system to the point that it may not start creating resentment among applicants which can result in over all less traffic to the site. So what ever they do will have some business sense to it but at the same time facilitating ’employer’ should be top priority as I am sure that even with a premium membership on candidate level, the main revenue stream would come from the employers.
soem more ideas about this infraction system I proposed in one of the discusions at linkedin.
“Well if you look closely, the system I am proposing is not like that the applicant will get penalized if some one reported them. No, I have put an ‘x’ amount of reports being received for the applicant before the system actually takes his/her ablility to apply for any further jobs. This could be 5, 10, or any other number you guys feel appropriate. But this will sure help the employers in terms of better applicants, your system in terms of less server resources utilization and candidates in terms of awareness and applying only to the right job as well.
You can also set levels, like first warnign being issued to any candidate once 3 spam reports arrive for him/her.
Second warning along with limited ability fo posting say only 2 jobs/day imposed.
on receiving 10 spam reports, his ability of posting on any job can get restricted for like 1 month.
after 1 month if the candidate shows same behaviour his account gets suspended only to be activated for some amount of money.
You can also pitch these candidates paid assistance in SEO writing and professional job hunting.”
all is well if u r confident.
PLZ trust on ALLAH
Have you seen the Rozee.pk nowadays? They are not only moving into the right direction of making it No 1 site of Pakistan for outsourcing and regular jobs. Kudos!