IT WON’T BE THE BIGGEST, BUT COULD IT BE THE BEST?
You love this website – and you need a job. So does it make sense to add a job board to Graduate Fog?
Until now, we have not had much in the way of a jobs board. Visit our Jobs page and you’ll find a little job search widget, supplied by our friends at Monster. It serves its purpose, but we know it’s not a brilliant user experience, and we’d love to give you something more valuable. Should we replace the current page with something else? And if so, what should that be?
We have a few options. We have strong relationships with several of the big job boards. Should we add a feed to their jobs, on Graduate Fog? Or should we partner with a smaller graduate recruitment agency that we know supplies really good graduate jobs? There will be fewer jobs, but at least we’ll know they’re all top-quality roles.
What we do know is that whoever we partner with, they must share Graduate Fog’s values. We would never work with a job board that advertises illegal unpaid internships. But many do still advertise charity internships and pay-to-work-abroad internships, which make us uneasy. How would you feel about them being on Graduate Fog?
In an ideal world, we would also love Graduate Fog’s job board to be known as the best job board around. It doesn’t have to be the biggest, but we’d love it to be the best. For example, we’d love to be able to promise our users that they will receive a response to every job they apply for on Graduate Fog, even if it’s a quick ‘Thanks but no thanks’ email. We know how demoralising that ‘tumbleweed’ silence is, and we think employers should raise their game and treat jobseekers with more care, courtesy and respect. We would love to lead the way in providing an ethical job board, with only graduate employers and jobs that are worthy of our fantastic users’ time and attention.
What do you think? Seriously, we would love to hear your views. This is a big decision for us, and we want to make we get it right. Should Graduate Fog have a job board? And what would you like it to be like? Please let us know by commenting below – thank you!
I think this is a really interesting idea – with all the great advice on here on finding graduate jobs it seems the logical next step. I’d say thought that for me I’d want to see quality over quantity so that everything would be in keeping with Graduate Fog’s ethos, which is such an important one.
Perhaps it could be an incentive for companies, so they’re ‘Graduate Fog approved’ recruiters?
Good idea though and one that I’m sure many readers would appreciate – I look forward to seeing how this progresses!
I think this is a brilliant idea. I know when I was looking for my first graduate job I found it really frustrating to look for jobs in my industry as places like Work For An MP will put absolutely any job up and it’s not until you get into the details you work out that either doesn’t pay or has rubbish expenses.
For me, I think it would need to have a variety of jobs too. London centric jobs adverts can be frustrating so teaming up with a company that covers the country would be great. It would be great if companies were aiming towards a Graduate Fog stamp of approval on their job listings!
It may be hard to know who to partner with though. Although more job boards are banning unpaid internships, vacancies usually aren’t vetted. And as we’ve found with the previous link promising to search for “graduate jobs”, they are tricky to search for or even define.
Completely agree with the other comments, a jobs board will really help the website as often when people are seeking advice about getting a job they’re likely to want to know where they can apply! It would be great if everything could be in one place for GF users.
Having a jobs board which advertises roles that keeps with GF ethos would be ideal, as I’ve felt too many times the stinging silence of applying for numerous roles. This of course may limit the amount of jobs available on the board, but as Libby mentioned quality over quantity is important as all too often with job sites there’s so much filtering before getting to something useful.
Excited to see what GF will come up with!
I agree, is there not already an excellent job search out there somewhere, tailored for graduates?