Jobsketing

At Jobsket we like to use an agile development process. We do our best to release early and often. So it’s been little more than two weeks since the last release and here we are again announcing new improvements.

The first thing you will notice when using Jobsket is that there is now a few help symbols over several places. It’s help! There have been so many people asking questions about Jobsket and how it works that we obviously need to put some help in place. We have started with a simple but quite complete page. If you think we should add some extra help entries about any other topics in there, just send us a message and we will add your questions to the help page.

There has also been many changes in the valuation algorithm that Jobsket uses. In fairness, our algorithm was being a little bit generous in some cases and a little bit unfair in other cases. For example, we weren’t penalizing junior people (< 2 years of experience) even though our average quotes always do refer to an average experience. Also, very senior people were getting much higher valuations than they probably should be.

These problems were affecting a minority of our users but it is something that we had to solve. We have improved the valuation algorithm in several different ways, so be aware that you could get a valuation with a few thousand euros more or less than your previous one. If you were in the extreme cases that I mentioned, then the variation could be bigger. But in summary, the system is much more accurate and fair now.

But, to make the valuation system even fairer, you will be able now to tell us your salary history and how much are you willing to earn. All this data will be kept private to other Jobsket users and only recruiters and companies interested in you, will be able to see this information. You are not obligued to enter this data, but if you do so then we will use it to make a better valuation of your profile. So if for example we value you in 23K due to some error and you’ve been earning around 40K in your previous jobs, your valuation will move up considerably.

If you are looking for a new job, we must also recommend you to fill the data about the salary that you are willing to accept. Not only this salary will affect your valuation but it will be very appreciated by employers looking for new candidates.

There are other minor improvements that will make your live easier. Email alerts have also a new column that tells you where the notificatoins comes from; with each quote (e.g. Madrid, Java, Dublin, …) we will be showing now related Cvs which is very attractive for candidates who can be shortlisted there and can be targetted by recruiters; and apart from that, there are many internal non-visible improvements and bug-fixes that have been added.

So in summary we are very happy with the pace that the project is moving at and we hope to release many new and exciting features in few weeks. We keep in touch!