JOBHOP

Businesses are struggling to recruit digital talent Jobhop helps by connecting great candidates to great employers in a social way! We're on a mission at Jobhop.co.uk to make the recruitment / employment experience better! We believe the recruitment / employment experience could be a lot better We believe that by connecting candidate to employer, employer to candidate will make employment human We believe that engaging communities come before the job vacancy….Once an employer creates... communities, they can build relationships with potential candidates and it removes the panic to job push and hire the wrong person. We believe that a great company culture has a lot to do with attracting great candidates There's a MASSIVE PROBLEM! Businesses are really struggling to recruit digital talent It's predicted that by 2017 there will be 1.1m digital jobs across the UK which will require filling. There's a HUGE GAP! For businesses to evolve they need young digital talent Employers and Recruiters are struggling with where to find them though, they think Linkedin might be the answer but they're wrong, Linkedin isn't social enough for young digital talent. The average age on Linkedin is 45 and according to Pew many Linkedin connections are retired from business altogether. Our young digital talent who know of Linkedin ( many don't) think it's just stuffy business networking which doesn't appeal to them at all. Young digital talent are being social on other social media platforms, many of these platforms employers haven't heard of or don't understand. There's a SOLUTION We've already created the solution it's Jobhop.co.uk A social site with employment in mind, it's not a job board! Jobhop connects people, we know that good relationships = loyalty and sustainability, the job comes later. Jobhop enables people to showcase themselves, we understand that everyone is on the market of opportunities even when they're not actively looking. Jobhop enables people to follow other peoples job journeys because it may help them to plot their own job journey. Jobhop enables people to get close to employers and find out more about their businesses, who they employ and what their culture is like. We conducted research into what young digital candidates were looking for and 68% said they would choose company culture above money. With that in mind we educate businesses on what a good company culture means and how that can attract great talent. Giving employers using Jobhop the ability to build engaging communities of possible recruits is beneficial not only to them but also to the candidates who are eager to learn more about the organisation. The Jobhop mission is to make employment human and we believe that our platform will help to make that happen. We aim to tackle issues like job adverts, outdated CVs, the terrible recruitment process, bad interviews, candidates not hearing back after interviews, rigid job descriptions etc... Why the name Jobhop? “Because a job isn’t for life” You’ll notice that this is our strap-line. It used to be that people would leave education and go and get a “job for life”, not anymore, that type of job security isn’t about anymore and even if it was who would want a job for life? An average life-span of a job is now 3 years and that’s because our young generation of workers want as much experience as they can get, they want to climb the career ladder fast and they wont hang about in a job that they’re dissatisfied with, they’ll simply hop to another. This means our young generation of employees could easily have up to 20 jobs during their working life. Understanding why someone would want to job hop then gives the employer an advantage, knowledge is power. Our young generation are driven more by culture, ethics and the mission of the company they work for. Understanding what drives them the employer would be wise to hire for culture match first, making sure that the ethics also match, as well as being very clear about the company mission. Knowing that young employees want to climb the career ladder fast employers must show them a route within the organisation where they can achieve that. When employers understand that young employees have a thirst for experience then they should make sure that there are plenty of opportunities for them to learn different skills and develop. On top of that the employer needs to understand that our young generation have a different way of working, they like flexibility, they like to collaborate, they work fast and they’re hyper-connected. Talking about hyper-connectivity, the young generation of workers will expect good technology, you better make sure they get it! Now armed with that knowledge an employer can encourage job-hopping within the company, if everything ticks the right boxes and there’s opportunity to grow and further their career within the company then why look anywhere else? Sometimes there will be great employees who just have to spread their wings and get further experience elsewhere to build up their connections and networks, when that happens it’s good to let them go but leave the door open for when they want to come back home. Speaking to some companies who have got this completely right say when their employees come back home, they’re then home for good! Job hopping is now seen in a positive light. Jobhoppers themselves are well connected, skilled, experienced, ambitious and energised, they crave to learn more and continuously want to develop, sounds like the ideal employee to me. What job hopping also means is that now companies need to step up, to keep hold of good employees they need to do a lot more, no longer is it enough to just provide someone with a job, our young generation want everything that having a job means, which goes back to culture, ethics, mission, vision and values. If a company lacks on any of them then they’ll definitely lack on talent as employees will be job hopping off to the competitor! At Jobhop we want to show employers how to really tap into great people by understanding them, being human about employment, being transparent and eventually learning how to attract good candidates naturally. We also want to help people to do the jobs they love, everyone should do what they love! It makes sense to, we would be a much more productive country if that happened. Talking about country, we’re on a mission to keep our talent in the U.K, we have to! There’s lots more to Jobhop but you’ll find out all about it if you join the journey with us, I hope you do. Why the space-hopper? Why not? Space hoppers are fun! At Jobhop we think everybody should love what they do and have lots of fun! They're also the colour orange which is zesty, fun and energetic, perfect for Jobhop and the people who use it!More