When Teams Work Together To Hire

by Phil on February 1, 2013 in News, Top Connectors with No comments

Crew looking left

What a week!

We’ve seen 3 teams, Digito, Engagement Labs, and the combined Mediative/Yellow Pages team, really working out their network to get the word out about some pretty exciting jobs this week.

Mohamed Kahlain from Mediative really raised the bar. The Lead Management Specialist position he posted was shared over 100 times by 10 people in less than 4 days.

Simple fact: If your employees like their team, their leader and want to contribute to the future of the team, social is a great way to get the word out.

Thanks to our users!

A couple special congratulations:

  • Joachim Coste completed his first match!
  • Zunaid Khan for sharing the good jobs to the right people (hint: he’s available himself!)
  • Mark Bakker also completed his fist match! (and this web specialist is available right now)
If that wasn’t clear enough, we’re experimenting some solid growth at the moment. We received a lot of feedback about the new Matching feature and we’re already working on quick fixes and ways to be more precise in our recommendations.

You want to help? Share this post ;-)

 

Changement d’Employeur? Voici 3 Emplois Qui Pourraient Vous Convaincre

by Phil on January 10, 2013 in En Français, On Career Life with 1 Comment

La période des fêtes et le début d’année apportent avec eux certains questionnement. Si un environnement de travail plus dynamique vous a été recommandé par votre médecin, ces 3 emplois et employeurs sont probablement ce qu’il vous faut:

 

Analyse d’affaires et concepteur d’expérience utilisateur chez numadn

Honnêtement, si je n’avais pas les 2 mains pleines avec matchFWD, je sauterais sur l’occasion de travailler avec Jonathan Parent, dans le nouvelle boîte/agence qu’il vient tout juste de fondé. Il a roulé sa bosse dans les meilleures boîtes web de Québec et est une partie important de la scène web à Québec. Une opportunité en or de joindre une entreprise naissante avec un avenir prometteur.

 

 

Office Assistant chez TeamUp Technologies

Une équipe passionnée par leur produit et distribuée entre Berlin et Montréal, un produit ouvrant un nouveau marché dans les logiciels de rendu 3D, du financement leur donnant les moyens de leurs ambitions et un poste permettant de grandir dans une nouvelle compagnie. Dur à battre.

TeamUp / MultiOptics – Mesh Light from Thiago Costa on Vimeo.

 

Senior Marketing Assistant chez Virtual Paper

Virtual Paper est un startup plus mature mais ça ne rend cet emploi que plus attrayant. Sans compter l’opportunité de travailler avec un VP Marketing possédant une impressionnante feuille de route. C’est le temps de changer la vitesse de votre carrière en marketing avec une équipe de ‘doers’.

 

 

 

A Good Career Page is like a Good Burger. Well, we think so!

by Rana Alrabi on November 30, 2012 in Sourcing/Recruiting with No comments

Recruiters, HR folks, are you reading?

With a heavy heart, you reach for the computer and decide to give the career search another try. You click on a company’s career page, and tell yourself ‘here goes nothing.’

We understand.

After endless experience and boredom, we asked ourselves: What do we want from a career page?

A career page that answers:

Will I like it? Who works there? What distinguishes this company from another organisation offering an equivalent position?

Then we thought of a burger.

To illustrate, here’s an infographic we prepared, which made it to The Undercover Recruiter, by the way:

matchFWD career page

We think that creativity, effort and honesty in building an organisation’s career page yields without a doubt a valuable return on investment: ensuring the right person applies.

When a career page is authentic and informative, without being verbose, the reader receives a clear picture of the hiring organisation and what he or she as a candidate can expect by joining the organisation. A clear career page also fosters an assertive image ‘We display who we are without mumbo jumbo,’ and reciprocal honesty from the candidate.

Do you think an appetising career site is important?

We’d love your comments on our take!

Hot Startups currently hiring with matchFWD

by Rana Alrabi on October 22, 2012 in Sourcing/Recruiting with 1 Comment
startup

Hi everybody!

Thursday, we shared really interesting articles about startup life. Today, we have some really cool startups from Montreal that are hiring!

TeamUp‘s platform enables creators to compose, layout and interactively render high-quality 3d for creatives in Engineering, Architecture and Media & Entertainment. They are looking for talent in all the right places: http://matchfwd.com/opportunities/engineer-software-in-montreal-quebec-canada

Wanna see what they do? Check it!

Next up, ooomf. That’s right, three o’s. If you’re an app developer, ooomf  - three o’s - helps you launch your product. They are doing well and they are hiring. Check out their job opportunities: http://matchfwd.com/opportunities/devs-get-out-your-resume-throw-it-away-and-talk-to

We’re including a couple of videos of their pitch:

Content we dig about startups

by Rana Alrabi on October 18, 2012 in Content We Like with 1 Comment
Map of socioeconomic value

Map of socioeconomic value

We all have an idea of what a startup is. We may have a friend, a spouse, or a colleague from a previous day who started their own.

It may seem alluring given the economy that is changing into a place more for the individual leader. A place where the large sink like the Titanic. Why? Oversight, being too large, too old, lacking focus on the productivity and creativity of every member you hire. After all, if you hire someone, it’s so that they can produce the best for the organisation’s growth long term.

Am I right?

The reality of this startup movement, shall we call it, is changing and worth reading about.

We’ve lately come across insightful articles that we’d like to share with you about startups: Where they are popping up in the planet, why they can die, how they can last, and to consider starting a startup that is about providing an added value to your society.

This is the theme behind the cool map accompanying this post, courtesy of an article entitled The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship by Max Marmer in the HBR Blog Network.

What are your thoughts on startup life?

Curious about us? We’re on Nibletz

by Rana Alrabi on October 16, 2012 in Press with No comments
nibletz

Nibletz generously featured us as socially connecting for the job market:

“matchFWD is a startup based in Montreal that is hoping to change the paradigm in the job hunting game. They want to cut out the middleman by leveraging social media and sharing. matchFWD provides a platform that allows hiring managers to share new job opportunities with people and then down the social landscape, in a word-of-mouth style that will hopefully connect good candidates with great jobs.“

For the full interview with Phil Gauvin, co-founder and CEO at matchFWD, we invite you to read this article by Kyle, the Content Director and Co-Founder of Nibletz.com

Thank you, Nibletz, for spreading the good word about startups everywhere else :)

Professions and Career paths that Need You

by Rana Alrabi on October 16, 2012 in Content We Like with No comments
engineering

Just curious, would you consider a career path in agriculture, engineering, accounting and finance, manufacturing, computer science or health care administration?

OnlineCollege.org published 13 Careers Short on Graduates, a blog post on what the economy today requires in terms of academic specializations and career paths in the U.S.

And, Jordan Weissmann writes in The Atlantic: ”More than half of America’s recent college graduates are either unemployed or working in a job that doesn’t require a bachelor’s degree, the Associated Press reported this weekend.”

We’d love to hear from you. What is the reality in Canada?

So You’re Telling Me You Spent 10MM$ On A Skydiving Stunt?

by Phil on October 15, 2012 in Uncategorized with No comments

This is an important question

by Rana Alrabi on October 3, 2012 in Content We Like, On Career Life with No comments
nap at the office

To nap or not to nap…at work?

Call it a power nap or whatever you like to call it, napping is an essential part of healthy diet. Many places around the world condone this type of behaviour and close shop for a few hours in the afternoon. Whether you lack sleep from the night, or whether you’re just feeling tired from the hectic day, you need a space to lay your head and your body comfortably without embarrassment or chastising.

It’s not only doctors and nurses who need those tiny compartments to sleep. We all need to recharge. Instead, we grab that extra cup of coffee in an attempt to stay awake.

Walking through McGill University campus yesterday afternoon, a friend completing her post-doctoral studies sees my yawn and tells me that she’s also feeling that afternoon fatigue. She shares that a nap space is actually an item for discussion on the agenda of the next committee meeting for graduate students. ”If you live on or near university campus, great. If you don’t, libraries, lawns, even classrooms, sometimes serve as a place to rest,” she shares.

Is North America a nap-friendly society? Why be shy about wanting to rest for a while?

We’d love to see your comments to this post.

Tell us: Do you think it’s a good idea to institute a nap policy in your workplace?

hacking the job interview

by Rana Alrabi on October 1, 2012 in Networking, On Career Life, Top Connectors with No comments
Hacktaville hackathon McGill University programming coding

At Thursday’s Startup Talks Montreal organised by Marek Zaluski at Notman House, an interesting concept emerges.

Startup people have a different way of doing things. We know that. They answer a need, provide an improvement or challenge an approach.

Listening to the young entrepreneurs from Wavo.me, Weroll, Static Pixels and Decode Global on building their idea into a soaring startup, I note the word hackathon comes up a few times.

“I hate interviews,” says Gabriel Lespérance, Wavo.me co-founder.  To find the next team member, the next great programmer, user interface and user experience developer, or co-founder, attend a hackathon.

Why? You work together in a fun environment where people are wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, are seated comfortably at a table with their laptop or device and are there to brainstorm, discuss, talk, laugh and collaborate to produce an idea, a project or a usable application by the end of the day.

I attended my first hackathon, Hacktaville, on September 8 at McGill University and the experience is unforgettable. It is exhilarating to get together with people you just met and make something. Michael Mulley, Fletcher Tomalty, and I from matchFWD, took part in Hacktaville.

Brainstorming

Ideas and projects people coming to Hacktaville Sept 2012 wanted to work on

hackathon hacktaville McGill University City Programming Coding Urban

Brainstorming sessions at Hacktaville!

Fletcher and I combined forces with undergraduate and graduate students at McGill’s School of Environment and School of Computer Science, as well as other disciplines. After a few hours of brainstorming and programming between workshops, we collectively created and presented: BetterOff – an app to let you know of the cost in money, in fuel and in polluted air of engine idling. Say what? Yes, when you park your vehicle and keep the engine turned on for whatever reason, you are spending money on fuel to stay in place. Meanwhile, the exhaust gas is creating toxic smog that joggers, babies, elderly people, asthmatics, and of course you and me inhale.

Back to job interviews. These startup co-founders and hackers are on to something. If you want to know how you’ll enjoy working with someone, then work with them for a few hours!

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