Community driven recruitment
Chinwag can be a tricky beast to define at the best of times. Having grown up from an email-based community, the company is evolving alongside and with the help of the community.
In February, I was invited to speak at Enhance Media’s annual conference, The Year Ahead in Online Recruitment looking at the lessons learnt, and still being learnt, from building Chinwag Jobs. As our team begun to think about transforming a basic email list into an all-singing, all-dancing jobs website, we aimed to keep the community at the heart of the development.
As always, these presentations fly by in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, the lovely Louise Triance from UK Recruiter managed to grab some notes, which she’s posted up her blog. If you want a bit of insight into the background to Chinwag Jobs and how we try and keep the community at the heart of our development, have a read.
Comments, as always, are welcome, as are suggestions for any of Chinwag’s activities: Chinwag Jobs, Chinwag.com and Chinwag Live.
> Chinwag can be a tricky beast to define at the best of times.
My definition? A fucking loads of rubbish… “beta” indeed!
@dave, thanks for your feedback, I’d be interested to know what we could do to improve your opinion of the services we provide. Is there anything we could do differently? Services that you’re looking for, that you can’t find? Improvements to the design?
The reason that we still have the beta badge on our sites is because we don’t feel they’re the finished article yet. Internally, we have a long list of items that we’d still like to get added to the site. Perhaps you’re right though, and we should change the ‘beta’ to ‘gamma’.