Whoplusyou on Cbc Radio

tied it so what is this new website and how does it differ from the billions of other tell but i think that that that that this was called who plus you and it was created in partnership with ryerson university in toronto and i talked with the c_e_o_ and co-founder Doug Walker all about how this works and it should be really just likens it to online dating sites where you post a profile any get matched up so it so prospective employees people looking for work would post a comprehensive the profile about themselves employers employers would post job descriptions and all of that and then algorithm goes out and that seeks to each other adults to see what kind of a match they can find and then there are a large that will be sent out when somebody skills and experiences with the national debt and in employers job description so instead of looking at job postings online that hurts just kind of static there and you're sending your resume in cover letter this is where you set up our profile comprehensive descriptions of who you are what you're looking for and what you value and they do the same and if you match then fabulous and it's like this twenty four seven things work you know new people who come on board you know to get into that whole search thing the interesting thing about this one is it's anonymous the employer only sees your skills are your education we're looking for uh... you know way back to you know later when you that used to reveal it so if you get a match for instance they see the skills at everything education but they don't know if you male or female at this point they don't know in a men's they don't even know the company names of the schools you went to that that's going to redacted their only seieng like this and they have the MBA belt weakened saving on m_b_a_ have done this map of the won't see with school it's from so i thought that was a kind of an interesting thing you get to see as a job seeker the employer's posting before you reveal your identity and if they're is that match in that adds up to each side to figure out how you want to communicate connect with each other now if i'm looking for a job and i create a profile connect we could to certain opportunities like the experts suggest well that's an absolute blast at walker any we are always told you what a treat to resume d each opportunity instead of sending out the same one everybody um... it doesn't sound like he can do that per se but what he sleeps is telling me that ye need the profile of that kind of a timeline of all the stuff that you've done you can add anything you wanted any point in time you know you could add photographs and videos and a pd_f_ file a word doc you whatever you want to show maybe a project that you've done specifically uh... or something like that shows many aspects of yourself as possible because you know it's kind of the reversing instead of the prospect instead of me if i'm looking for a job as head of me sending my staff adults to the prospective atm them players they're kind of sending open their feelers two while the job seekers to see who fits so you wanna put as much information about yourself it is focused as possible uh... so that you can get that hits it's like i guess if you're in a dating site you say yeah i wanna meet somebody with this hight and this hair colour whatever that's what you're going to get back is gonna match you up so we might missing possibilities so put as much of yourself out there as possible in your profile the likelihood you'll get more matches now doug walker sees two types of users not just people for those looking for a job but somebody who've currently has a job to put up a profile as well just to see where that kind of stand in the marketplace is a kind of sort of test out the water's edge well i can certainly see the benefits of this kind of thing for for someone who's looking for work but what's the the biggest benefit for employers at times savings what that walker is telling me is it is very time-consuming to search for the right candidate he put out job at it and you get hundreds if not thousands of resumes come in in your door and this matching system will only match the very top candidates for that job so maybe the only get eight or ten candidates matched and they look at that you know what percentage of the criteria is matched to that particular job profile both sides will put up a profile for free it's the employer who ends up paying if an employer wants a contact person on the site they can do it via i'm very multimedia ways they can do chat and video conferencing whenever the employer actually pays nine dollars ninety nine cents to contact that person to the site previous estimates all lined up a few months actually round so they've really been testing area ryerson students and rising graduate in alumni that that over four hundred thousand jobs on the site right now live ten thousand people looking for work three hundred have already been matched with jobs uh... anybody can go on it though it is it for any one particular um... field or uh... age range or whatever anybody can go on it and set up a profile and they're looking for feedback from users uh... it certainly they'll be used as another tool can be seen as yet another tool will help narrow the skills gap i don't know that it wouldn't necessarily help um... you know the system searches on lots of levels industries you've worked for department you've worked in things that uh... they're focusing it down it what it does do according to doug walker is it helps job seekers better understand the marketplace that are and what they need to do in terms of either more education or skills to get the jobs and i think that's probably going to be really helpful to people if they are aren't sure what else they need to do this will probably tell them you know you need this other skill set if you want this type of work they be that will be helpful in terms of uh... closing the skills gap doug walker says he hopes to revolutionize the job hunting process and and help employers reach people faster and get those people in the door faster and so cuts down on that time experts will say networking still very important who you know who knows you uh... is still the space spoke with a lot of people get work uh... and people can look good on paper i mean just because you have a high match it doesn't mean that you're necessarily benefit that job is just like i guess in go back to the dating analogy just because you look good on paper you have all this is a common doesn't mean the chemistry there in a lot kind of thing the human element of hiring doesn't go away so you still have to deal with them as well but again it is another way that people can put themselves out there both employers and prospective job seeker so just take a look at it who push you dot com if you're interested thanks very much donna you're welcome