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dthead · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:46 pm

Here is a place to talk more on how this forum works. If in doubt ask !

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42101 · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:50 pm

David seeing as its about employment in the rail industry how about letting employers advertise here, you could even make some money out of it for RP.

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cookie930 · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:08 pm

dthead · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:11 pm

42101 that is probally not what we want to do, well at the moment. I would suggest you PM Bevans with such an idea, as website owner.

We initially do not want to become a informal job placement area. Of course many can and will post "hey I found that xxx arehiring driver" or "there is a good positon being offeres, see www.linky"

Let's take our time slowly on this. At the moment it is only hours old, and we are still in a "new forum discovery" mode while members find this forum, or suddenly do not find the thread in a state's forum.

Anyhow I'm sure you could write up a great on the job report for new prospective people for your side of the rail indistry Smile

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michaelgreenhill · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:19 pm

Job offers won't be advertised here. The money for doing so might be nice, but it opens up a whole other can of worms that will make life more difficult for staff.

People are free to post a link to a job offer on Seek (or similar) and discuss, but that's about as far as I'm prepared to let it Smile

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Deep Throat · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:32 pm

I've been involved personally with about 10-11 job boards, and am about to get involved more deeply with the intracacies of said boards in about a week, and there's no way RP could handle it, which is sad in a way - bevans could do with the cash.

One on hand, you could get some smallish ad revenue from placing ads on this forum.

But to set up the appropriate links to such things as screening would require a great degree of tooling of the forum's back end: SQL might handle it but knowing what goes into SQL databases and programs, we'd have to clone michaelgreenhill 152 times to do it. An interesting concept, but I can;t see them all coding away together.

And the ads actual display format such as the HMTL required would IMHO not be compatible with the software that recruiters use to post to job boards, which I don't think the customised php would handle well. Some places allow quite a lot of HTML encoding and the ads themselves can be quite large. They also have to be able to be refreshed regularly, and the site would have to receive a lot of advertising to compete with the likes of SEEK, MyCareer and CareerOne as well as the 10 or so startups that I can think of. Have a look at the history of jobs.com.au to see how many of these fledgeling job boards fail very quickly.

Also, actually getting the software to actually be compatible to your requirement involves paying the software company a substantial fee, five figures in some cases for the 'privilege' of doing so.

Also given that a job board as far as a recruiter is concerned must have the ability to (using a w**kword) 'onboard' the person applying for the job in the system, so it needs to be able to generate an email from the software having full details, attaching a resume and sending it, usually by email to an external recruiter via Outlook, it makes what seems like a good idea into a coding nightmare for what is essentially a tweaked discussion board.

simont141 · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:37 pm

One idea I had was to have a sticky with websites of all the different rail operators listed (perhaps by state?) that people can use to check for any jobs.

The plus of this is that people from different states who may not necessarily know about operators in other states can use it as a resource.

Here's just an example, but I hope this idea can come into fruition:

National:

Pacific National (website)
SCT (website)
QR National (website)
SSR (website)

SA/NT:

Freightlink (website)
TransAdelaide (website)

NSW:
CityRail (website)

Etc.

Simon

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Ned Ludd · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:42 pm

Could we have some housekeeping with thread titles? There are a couple of threads that have no indication of which employer/location they refer to. For example 'Train Driver Jobs" is a discussion on working in the Pilbara and 'Driver Recruitment' is a discussion on Connex Melbourne. This may help reduce the number of duplicate threads.

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