May 4, 2006; 06:16 AM Workcircle’s new tag-based online job search engine
is out of beta. Developed by Simon Appleton and Tony Jewell, the
original founders of PlanetRecruit, Workcircle specialises in
cutting-edge Internet and web development jobs across the UK and
internationally. Web developers with java, .net, perl and php skills,
or web designers with dhtml, javascript or CSS expertise will find the
site essential viewing.
“Your average job site is boring and not at all optimised for the
high-tech audience,” says Appleton, “the web has moved on, and we
wanted to build a site that uses the new technologies to make a real
difference to jobseekers.”
Workcircle looks very different from other job search engine sites – a
big tag cloud shows candidates at a glance which types of jobs are most
popular, and makes browsing for web development
jobs and other high-tech offerings very intuitive. “Traditional job
boards have very strict categorisation systems: you have to make
choices from long lists of job classifications,” says Jewell, “But this
can be very confusing for the candidate: am I in management under IT,
or IT under management?”
Conversely Jewell believes many job search engine sites have gone too
far the other way: “The Google-style keyword-only approach doesn’t work
well for web development jobs either. Am I a developer or a programmer?
Do I work in web design or New Media?”
Workcircle feels that tagging is the perfect compromise for web
development job searches. Select ‘development’ and you'll immediately
see that ‘programming’ is a related term. “Traditional boards are fine
if you know exactly what you want to do, where and for how much,” says
Jewell, “but most people aren't so fixed in their approach to job
hunting. That’s where Workcircle excels.”
http://www.workcircle.com/
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