My local chamber of commerce has found a vendor to support recruiters and job seekers in the community. Unfortunately, I don't share the same excitement they do. Here are some reasons:
Redmatch is not a technical marvel. I prefer DirectEmployers, Careerboard, Careerbuilder, and Cleveland.com. And Dice of course. See if you have the same problems I did. The areas below are the ones where I had difficulty or expected more. Your mileage will differ.... Results may not be typical....
- Location selection in geographic preferences is immature.
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Page Up/Down does not work.
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Cannot rapidly select an entire state.
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Cannot rapidly select an entire country.
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The convention of turning a checkbox off and on by tapping the space key is not implemented.
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I tried to add 35 cities and received an error message without any prior warning that only 20 are allowed. I cancelled and added cities again as a consequence.
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The wheel scroll did not work until I hovered over the down button on the vertical scroll bar. Then stopped again.
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After selecting 18 cities I tried to save and it told me that only 20 are allowed. Someone neglected to reset the count variable in memory, apparently.
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I gave up and proceeded on with just Cleveland as a city (prefilled by providing it in a previous screen.)
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I returned to the My Job Preferences tab and selected more cities. When I saved the cities I received a message 'Save Successful' which erroneously used a warning icon, rather than a straightforward success icon.
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Employment History
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Education History
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Resume Load
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Following my resume browse and load of a Word.doc file, a warning box appeared for JavaScript Application' with an OK button and there was no warning text. Nature of the error is unknown.
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Did not take the opportunity to load a picture.
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After completing the wizard and returning to the My Resume tab I found that the resume had not loaded. I then saved the Word.doc file as Word.rtf and uploaded that. The header was dropped and some other formatting was interpreted differently than might be expected.
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I attempted to Edit the resume using the action button and could only view the resume.
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The resume entries were not transferred back into the Employment History and Education. This feature is available on a few job sites but its omission is not a negative.
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Profile Results
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Ten matches in total from several major markets.
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Because I expressed an interest in marketing (they don't have a fundraising/campaign category selection) and specified my industry as education, only four of the ten entries might be of interest, three of those went back to the end of April.
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None were local.
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Most of my entries came from The Job Network. The network is listed as a Redmatch product. The newspapers covered by the network should be found on this page http://www.thejobnetwork.com/statistics/members.asp?code=1 (I think you'll have to copy/paste into the browser). There are none listed for Ohio at this time.
- Search Results
- I could finally specify 'ALL' cities but this gave me 1500 entries in the category Information Systems
- 4Jobs.com seemed to be a major source of entries. I only sampled a few results pages however. It makes me think I should try 4jobs directly.
- Restricting entries to Oracle also got me 1500 entries and they were Oracle entries. A few appeared to be duplicates.
- There is no filtering on dates.
- No sorting capabilities exist. Results are returned in roughly reverse chronology. Don't ask me what disrupts sequence. Revisions altering the date an entry was last modified?
- I added a filter for only companies beginning with 'D'. The search had not returned results after five minutes and I closed down the browser.
- Job agents or Saved Searches
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