Hi Alan Thanks for the great feedback. Agree with your comments, sign-up is high on the priority list. Off to JIRA it up and contact Kevin regarding the typos now.
Riges On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:07 PM, alan jones <alan.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Riges, congratulations on the new service. Suggest you run the site > through www.spellr.us and correct a few of the more glaring spelling > mistakes - they're not all as funny as this one: > http://skitch.com/alanjones/b7xhm/jobgenie-signup-spello > > Spellrus does a great job of picking up spellos and typos and > automates the process so you're not always checking new page designs > yourself. > > My big concern with the signup process is how much company information > you're asking for during registration. You really should be aiming to > capture the minimum information necessary to register the user so you > can move on to showing them the benefit of using the product. In the > early days, before it's clear why a business needs to use JobGenie, > you really need to breeze thru registration very rapidly so you're not > losing visitors you've paid good money to get there. You can always > come back and pick up additional company information later. > > Other big concern is you need to explain to job *seekers* that this is > not a service for them and direct them somewhere useful (ideally at a > decent CPA rate) > > Minor niggles: > > - tabbing between fields takes you from job title to company logo > instead of first name > - accept T&Cs checkbox should be checked by default and much more > prominent on the page, closer to the submit button > - if clicking the 'next' button creates a new login, the button should > be labelled 'submit' or 'save' not 'next' since there isn't a way back > on the next page > - need red alert text next to the captcha if it hasn't been completed > and captcha needs to be directly above 'save' button so it's clearer > that this must be completed > > Hope that helps tweak the visitor and registration experiences a bit > for you. > > - alan > > On Sep 1, 5:28 pm, Riges Younan <ri...@peerlo.com> wrote: > > Hey Guys > > > > Some of you may recall we went live with a job referral service called > > 2Vouch in September last year, that service was switched off in February > > following some fundamental shifts in the market that impacted on our > > business model i.e no one was hiring, so I didn¹t matter how innovative > your > > solution was to get to passive candidates because an ad on SEEK was > getting > > an influx of response. > > > > So I¹m pleased to say that we have licked our wounds, learned some > valuable > > lessons, lost a shit load of money and in true start-up style we are back > > for more. Our new service is called the JobGenie, some people are calling > it > > a social job referral site [1] or a job sharing site [2]. > > > > Basically if you are looking to hire through referrals, you can list jobs > > (with or without rewards) and request referrals from your employees, > friends > > and contacts via email or share them via Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook > > you get a whole bunch of analytics on all the referrals and you can > receive > > candidate applications. > > > > We have just officially launched and we are looking for people to have > play > > and break things. Please email me if you are interested and we will get > you > > set up with a free account ( not the free version but the full version > for > > free) > > > > This is the url http;//jobgenie.com.au > > > > Thanks! > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] > http://jobsportalwatch.com/http://jobsportalwatch.com/2009/09/social-... > > l-website-launches/ > > [2] > http://www.recruitmentdirectory.com.au/Blog/sharing-jobs-on-social-ne... > > using-jobgenie-a258.html > > > > Riges Younan > > Recruiting Strategist > > > > Peerlo Powering Your Talent Acquisition Strategywww.peerlo.com< > http://www.peerlo.com> > > > > General: 1300 665 600 > > Office +61(0)3.8683.0124 > > Fax: +61(0)3.8610.2013 > > Mobile: +61(0)419.932.392 > > Skype: riges.younan > > Linkedin:http://linkedin.com/in/rigesyounan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
