New CGarchitect.com Job Board Just Opened!

[Jeff Mottle]

I just wanted to let everyone know that our job board is finally live! I'm pretty pumped as it will be a huge benefit to everyone with all of the new features. You can get to the job board here:

http://www.cgarchitect.com/jobs/

Here is a list of just a few features:

Jobseekers (Individual/Freelancers and Companies)

- Ability to post your resumes along with images so employers can find you!
- Fully Featured Online Resume Builder
- Ability to apply for jobs online
- New Job search agents: Specify the kind of job you are looking for and we will email you when a matching job is posted.
- Advanced Job searches
- Track your job applications and save your favorite jobs

Employers

- Post jobs to the #1 online job board for architectural visualization professionals
- Search through pre-screened resumes for candidates matching your criteria
- Save and rank candidates for each job
- List your company profile along with all of your available jobs
- Track applications for each of your jobs
- Email notifications when resumes are posted that match your search criteria

Looking for Freelancers?

Post your job on the job board or search through the resumes that are posted in the job database.

Feedback and Comment welcome.

Enjoy!

[TheAllusionist]

Congratulations on providing the community with another great feature, it looks like a great resource.

[ihabkal]

it's a great new step but all the previous job posts are gone...employers need to repost? isn't there a way to import those?

[Jeff Mottle]

Originally Posted by ihabkal

it's a great new step but all the previous job posts are gone...employers need to repost? isn't there a way to import those?

Emails have gone out to all of the previous job posters to repost. Next week you should see some of them re-appear again.

[STRAT]

what a star that gent is!

[philip kelly]

if you did post a job on the site previously, do you now have to pay the $100 fee?

Why are you charging for the service , if you don't mind me asking ,dose it not bring more people to your site without now adding a fee.

Sorry Jeff, I get a bit Pis*ed off with everybody getting greedy these days , you get nothing for free anymore, everybody wants make money, sad state of affairs really.
come to ireland and see a rip off coulture in full swing.

phil

[Brian Smith]

Phillip,
Just my 2 cents. From the looks of it, the job board took hundreds of man hours to put together and will take countless man hours to maintain. This is what Jeff does. How would anybody be able to build and maintain such a site without compensation. It would be like you providing 3D renderings for free. Many 3D websites have come and gone and the main reason for their failure is the inability to generate income. Advertising dollars are not easy to get and people don't line up to pay for it. The site has to maintain a decent cash flow somehow. Personally, I've been telling Jeff for a long time that eventually, when the time is right, he should charge a small yearly membership fee. That would piss off a lot of members I'm sure, but if the site is to ever really grow, expand, improve and bring more viable content for all of us, it ain't going to happen for free. Advertising dollars only go so far. Just my humble opinion.

[Jeff Mottle]

Originally Posted by philip kelly

if you did post a job on the site previously, do you now have to pay the $100 fee?

Why are you charging for the service , if you don't mind me asking ,dose it not bring more people to your site without now adding a fee.

Sorry Jeff, I get a bit Pis*ed off with everybody getting greedy these days , you get nothing for free anymore, everybody wants make money, sad state of affairs really.
come to ireland and see a rip off coulture in full swing.

phil

Hi Phil,

Those who had jobs on the board are getting a 50% off discount to re-post right now. They were all emailed on Friday. But yes the base fee is $100/mo for jobs

The old job board was grossly under featured and was a disaster in how it worked. So for the last 6 months 2 developers have been working almost full time to program the new site. This ain't free, I can assure you, and I've probably put in many hundreds of hours in myself testing, and creating the specs for the job board. So posting jobs is no longer free, just like your renderings aren't free. Job seekers don't pay anything and now have the ability to post their resumes and have a TON of features to find jobs now. Charging $100 to an employer who is going to pay someone at least $30,000 a year is hardly unreasonable . Even those who use the job board for finding freelancers for one project, I don't think $100 is unreasonable either. In fact any of the major job sites will charge you $500-600 for the exact same thing and MUCH less targetted.

Greedy? Well if you call wanting to earn a living greedy then yes, I guess I am. If you call wanting to generate more revenue for CGA, so I can maybe one day hire someone full time for the site, then yes, guilty on that one too.

Don't forget, all of the news we post is free, the galleries we post are free, the forums are free, all of the job postings for job seekers are free, reviews, articles all free.....so charging a service to a company is hardly what I would call unfair.

I'd welcome anyone who thinks charging for this service if unfair to prove that I'm being unjust. All you have to do is take over for me for one month. I bet you would change your tune.

Sorry I just get a bit pissed when people think that hours I've put in over the last 5+ years on this site should not allow we to earn a living. Anyone that knows me well, knows how many hours I put in the site and what I have contributed to the industry.

[martincg]

hm... I think old one was better - easy for finding, easy for adding /but of course I agree - this perfect website have to live from something/

[philip kelly]

Jeoff

My sincerest appologies.
You are right, I read your post, and I know you have put your heart and soul in to the site, it's obious.

I recently wanted to post a job for a 3D person here in dublin ireland, on Royal Irish architects website , and was quoted 400 euros plus vat.

So $100 is not, a lot I agree.

You get nothin for nothin as the old saying goes.

Again, appologies.

Are you still doing 3D work , as well as the other website and web maintanance?

When I need to go and look for a job, i will e very gratefull to you and all the work you did.



phil