Jorbb gets Jobs for You! Bringing Employers and Job Seekers updates on Singapore Employment News. Productivity related Tech Toys & Web 2.0 Sites will also be covered. Singapore's 1st freelance / casual / part time / contract job blog. Visit http://www.jorbb.com to join today!
The Techgoondus are "a bunch of technology journalists and ex-journalists from Singapore who share a common love for all things geeky and digital, from cellphones to graphics cards to games. Together, we’ve had decades of experience covering news and reviews from the early 1990s."
This event was organised as they felt tech start-ups don’t get enough visibility through traditional channels.
They are considering running this event on a semi-regular basis so that start-ups in Singapore will have an avenue to showcase their work. For more information or to lock in your interest, email Chi-Loong at chiloong@techgoondu.com.
Headhunt has posted a testimonial on Jorbb.com's effectiveness in filling part time / freelance positions.
"We have been using Jorbb.com to look for flyer distributors and I would like to applaud it for its user friendly interface and its ability to produce results for us. Within a short span of time, we managed to fill all our 10 flyer distributor slots. We would definitely continue using Jorbb.com to source for all our part time and casual jobs requirements."
Headhunt is a Free Executive Recruitment Newspaper Targeting Professionals, Managers and Executives.
Attractive job opportunities that are relevant and organized by industry segments with focus on the Accounting & Finance Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Human Resources, IT & Telecommunication, Legal and Transportation & Logistics Industries.
We thank you for your support over the past 4 months, since our launch in Sept 2008.
Jorbb.com has grown to almost 450 registered Jorbbees and 125 Jorbbers in this short period of time.
To build on our mantra, "Jorbb gets Jobs for you!", we will be launcing new tools in early 2009, including integration of Jorbb's job search engine with our friends at Widgeo.us so that you can search for jobs via email / msn / widgeo.us device and eventually sms. (What is Widgeo.us? Daniel from YoungUpstarts did a post on them a while back and in the words of Ridzuan, the CEO - Widgeo.us is a web-based universal cross-channel communications platform that allows application developers to create applications that work seamlessly across multiple channels such as email, instant messaging, microblogging, text messaging etc. Of course this also means that end users can have applications that “follow” them wherever they go. No more being tied down to a single software client and all.)
We will also provide widgets for you to embed your profile onto your website / blog, and in return, earn credits for doing so, to exchange for great gifts (movie tickets, food vouchers etc).
We, at Jorbb.com, wish all members a Happy and Safe New Year.
We are doing a mention on these 3 sites, tracking local contests, events, promotions etc. You will find posts on our Xmas Draw for one of these netbooks (Acer Aspire One, AsusEEE, Dell Mini 9, LenovoIdeapad, MSI Wind).
Do check them out too as they are frequently updated.
With Netbooks in the rage now, we have selected the Acer Aspire One (we gave one out during the launch lucky draw), Asus EEE Pc, Dell mini 9, Lenovo IdeaPad and MSI Wind as the poll items.
We invite you to vote for the Netbook we should choose as the prize.
On 25th Dec 2008, we will award one lucky Jorbber / Jorbbee with the highest voted Netbook!
All you have to do is signup as a Jorbber / Jorbbee. Existing Jorbbers / Jorbbees are eligible for the draw.
Good luck!
Acer Aspire One
Asus EEE
Dell mini 9
Lenovo IdeaPad Netbook
MSI Wind
Winners to be announced 25th Dec 2008. Judges reserve rights to replace prizes of similar value. Judges decision is final. All registered users will qualify for the draw. Winner to be contact via email registered in system. Unclaimed prize will be forfeited after 30 days. Jorbb.com is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of the listed products or retailers. Contest open to Singaporeans / PRs only. Trademarks, service marks, logos, (including, without limitation, the individual names of products and retailers) are the property of their respective owners. Jorbb gets Jobs for You! Job Seekers join Free / Employers Post 1st Ad Free. Earn credits to exchange great gifts. Follow Jorbb on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook Group and Mobiles/iPhones!
Having used Jorbb.com as a Jorbbee, Loonshi's post talks about the many features of Jorbb.com and how you might earn extra income just by signing up on the site since relevant jobs will be sent to you.
And for posting the blog, we have awarded this Jorbbee credits, which can be exchanged for great gifts.
Check out Loonshi's blog, which covers "searching for money-making lobangs (opportunities)".
Thanks to Gwendolyn, our Press Release has been published on their blog.
SGEntrepreneurs.com, a public and moderated blog dedicated to people who are involved in entrepreneurship and enterprise. It serves as a site where fellow entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business plan competition organizers blog about their experiences on entrepreneurship and enterprise in Singapore.
The Young Businessman (TYB) started out as a journal to blog about his interesting business ideas and raise some money online to reach his personal target of SGD$10,000 in his bank by the age of 21.
Cris is a 20 year old full time student pursuing a diploma course in Temasek Polytechnic who likes entrepreneurship, as he is inspired by his uncle’s success.
He gets sleepless when a business idea strikes his mind and will quickly jot down into his trusty notebook of the ideas.
He feels that his parents are the worst venture capitalists in the world because they would reject every single business idea that he had drafted out.
He has interned for a local IT startup company (IT Laboratory), and several major companies such as IBM Singapore, gaining a wealth of experience in various roles.
He hopes to use this blog, The Young Businessman, to meet and know more people both online and offline.
He has a soft spot for Korean food especially Kimchi and he can be found at Geek Termin when he is in the middle of meetings and has nowhere to go because the coffee over there is simply superb!
It has been 13 days since we launched the site to public and we have received some feedback from users.
Comments (we edited some of them as some were in Singlish :p): 1. Jorbb.com! Your frontpage looks a little empty. There's a lot of empty space. SELL more AD SPACE! Earn more money! 2. There's Featured Jobs / Featured Jorbbers and Jorbbees, I think you should put latest jobs somewhere so I don't need to click search jobs to see. 3. I like VISUAL SEARCH, it's very convenient to see what jobs are around my area. But I think many users miss it as it is only available through the VISUAL SEARCH icon on right side.
Answer: We had to wait for more users to start using the site to add more content to it as we did not want to add placeholder / fake jobs to the live site. We have just released the new home page which includes some improvements.
VISUAL SEARCH preview is now shown on the Home Page so users can easily "eye ball" jobs around their area. To search jobs, SEARCH JOBS button goes direct to VISUAL SEARCH page now. To search in more detail, users can click on ADVANCED SEARCH.
We have also included a new section to show the LATEST 20 JOBS POSTED.
Hope the Home page provides a lot more information now :)
Keep your comments coming, we welcome your feedback / criticisms.
The lucky draw will be conducted at the end of Sept and we will be giving out these prizes:
1. 1 Acer Aspire One Mini-Notebook 2. 1 Sony PSP Slim 3. 1 Nintendo DS Lite 4. 5 sets of Apple Ipod Shuffles 5. 10 Pairs of Golden Village Movie Tickets
Here's the good news, ALL registered Jorbbers / Jorbbees at the time of the draw will qualify for the lucky draw as well.
We will release the results on 1st Oct, and add the winners' names to this post. We were waiting for last night's Apple event to see if there would be new Ipod Shuffles, however, the new ones only had cosmetic changes.
Winners will be notified via email. Lucky draw is open to Singaporeeans / PRs only. Judges reserve rights to replace prizes of similar value. Judges decision is final. We adhere to anti-spam policies and will not redistribute / resell your email to external parties. Jorbb.com is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of the listed products or retailers. Trademarks, service marks, logos, (including, without limitation, the individual names of products and retailers) are the property of their respective owners. Jorbb gets Jobs for You! Job Seekers join Free / Employers Post 1st Ad Free. Follow Jorbb on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook Group and Mobiles/iPhones!
Thanks to Daniel from Young Upstarts, an "e-interview" conducted between Daniel and myself, has just been posted on YoungUpstarts.com - "a business and technology blog that champions new ideas, innovation and entrepreneurship. It focuses on highlighting young people and small businesses, celebrating their vision and role in changing the world with their ideas, products and services, at the same time it challenges stale boundaries that restrict entrepreneurship."
Hi Jorbbers / Jorbbees, we have just rolled out a new feature to reinforce our social networking initiatives. Jorbb.com now has Tag A Friend built into the platform.
So your friends are on Jorbb.com and you want to know what jobs they've recently applied for, or perhaps you occasionally do part time work as an IT Show promoter and will like to link up with fellow Jorbbees (Job Seekers) with the same interests.
What about "bookmarking" Jorbbers (Employers) who frequently post out casual work like flyer distribution or short term project based work requests.
Well now you can!
How to Tag A Friend?
After you login, when you Search for Jorbbers / Jorbbees, you will see this "+" icon in the mini profile, click on it, the icon turns to a "-" and you've Tagged him/her. You can tag both Jorbbers and Jorbbees. To untag, just click the "-" and you will no longer tag him/her. Easy ya?
Now, what then? Jorbbees go to Profile page (or Account page for Jorbbers) and you will find this on the right panel. Ok fine, so I'm Mr Popular.
On top, you have Tagged Jorbbees followed by Tagged Jorbbers. At the bottom you will see Jorbbees with similar job interests as you (as you would have defined in the survey or profile).
When you mouse over a Tagged Jorbbee, you will see the latest 5 jobs applied by him/her.
When you mouse over a Tagged Jorbber, you will see the latest 5 jobs posted by him/her.
For Jorbbers, you will see your tagged Jorbbees / Jorbbers and other Jorbbers who have posted similar jobs as you. That way you can compare if you are pricing your job requests at market standards. With tagging, it'll be easy for you to invite previously hired Jorbbees to apply for your job again.
As always, we appreciate all feedback and comments. Do post them here or drop us an email at our Contact Us page.
Thanks to the folks at E27.SG, we've just made it on their blog. We highly recommend that you RSS their blog for announcements on their many outreach programmes. In fact, we met Gothere.sg and Widgeo.us at the recent Unconference Singapore.
"Entrepreneur27 Singapore is the sister organization of the original Entrepreneur27 group founded by Noah Kagan in Silicon Valley/ San Francisco Bay Area.
The “27″ in Entrepreneur27 (E27) really means “<27″.>
Since Jan 2006, E27 Singapore has reached out to thousands of new media enthusiasts and entrepreneurs through our 4 unconferences and numerous other outreach events at polytechnics, Junior Colleges. Via our mailing lists, Facebook groups and event wikis, we seek to engage our community in a direct conversation. Our new partnership with NUS and MDA to manage a startup incubator for the Interactive Digital Media sector is going to take us in an uncharted direction for the upcoming years and we are very excited about the possibilities."
We are still in BETA so please bear with us if there are any issues and we appreciate your comments.
Here's the 30 seconds blurp for those who don't have time to read the entire post and a 60 seconds video which sums up most of Jorbb.com's features. For the official broadcast, please click here to download our Press Release.
1. Market is saturated with Executive Job Portals out there, focused on Employers rather than on Job Seekers.
No Non-Executive (freelance, casual, part time, contract) portal for Job Seekers to put themselves for hire. Jorbb.comTM plugs this gap.
First ad posting by Jorbbers (Employers / Agency) is FREE.Jorbbees (Job Seekers) post Resumes / Video Profiles / Portfolios for FREE.
2. Users can post Video Profiles / Slideshows of portfolio to build profile.
You can rate and provide testimonials (between Employer and Job Seeker) upon being hired. So don't slack off at work ya?
3. Search for Jobs / Employers / Job Seekers in a specific area with Maps via VISUAL SEARCH.
We also provide Bus / Train commuting directions, powered by GoThere.sg so you can find out what bus / train / cost / time it takes to travel to your potential new job place.
Sweet!
4. You can find and Tag A Friend who share common job interests. You can also tag Employers. Build your community and "follow" their latest successful job application or job posted.
5. Earn Credits for Gifts Exchange: Each time you refer a friend or post a testimonial, you earn credits which can be exchanged for gifts (movie tickets, food vouchers etc).
6. Finally, Jorbb gets Jobs for You! Upon sign up, you will be asked to fill up a survey.
If any Employer posts a job which matches your job interests, you will be notified. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds of jobs you are interested in.
That's it, 30 seconds :)
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Here's the longer format...
So what is Jorbb.comTM and why launch another job portal?One day, I chanced upon this handwritten A4 notice outside a shop, seeking part time sales staff. Further along, there was yet another sign looking for casual event promoters. How many "relevant hits" do they get?
The online job classifieds market is saturated with executive job search, but what about the part time, casual, temporary, freelance and contract job seekers - where can they make themselves available for hire?
A shop owner, new start-up, or home maker will not have the budget to post daily ads in papers, nor high profile, established executive job sites - prices there range from $35 for a 1 day classifieds ad, to $100-200 for an online posting at executive job portals!
Some examples: Tuition Teacher advertising for students, Photographer specialising in Wedding Shoots, DJ providing music at private parties, Event Organisers looking for ushers, Physical Trainer providing programmes, Home Care Provider for elderly folks, Retail Shop looking for Sales Staff, IT Show Event Promoters, the list goes on...
I designed Jorbb.comTM to plug this gap. 1st ad posting by Jorbbers (Employers / Agency) is FREE.Jorbbees (Job Seekers) post Resumes / Video Profiles / Portfolios for FREE.
What is the unique selling point about Jorbb.comTM?
The concept / design of site is distinctively different from any job portal in Singapore / the Region. Job-seekers come first. With our platform, Jorbbees can build profiles with Images / Slideshows and Video. With a single URL to Profile Pages, they can embed this in their resume / email signature.
Jorbb is the mascot and his tag line is "Jorbb Gets Jobs for You!", striving to make it easy for users to stay updated with current job offerings via various communication channels (emails / RSS feeds / widgets).
As with most freelance / casual / part time work, referrals are important in establishing the reputation and credibility of the candidate.
Hence Jorbb.comTM allows RATINGS and posting of TESTIMONIALS between Jorbbers and Jorbbees. Jorbbees can also embed Videos, Images, Slide-shows into their Profile pages as typical text resumes may not be useful when selecting candidates.
A shop may need someone eloquent & bilingual and they can narrow down on a Jorbber based on his/her video introduction profile. A freelance Graphic Web Designer can easily post a portfolio slide-show in the profile.
All Jorbbees take a survey which identifies his/her strengths & weaknesses. This helps a Jorbber screen though the type of candidate he/she prefers.
Each time a Jorbber posts an ad, for example, looking for a graphics designer, or promoter, Jorbbees tagged with these job categories will be informed. Hence, Jorbbers get better ad targeting hit to relevant Jorbbees who are looking for that position.
We also run Blog / Twitter / FriendFeed / Facebook feeds which will update users with current economic, employment, recruitment how-tos, reviews, tech and web 2.0 news.
How does Jorbb.comTM differentiate itself from other job sites?
Leveraging on location based search, all posted Jobs, registered Jobbers & Jorbbees are listed on a VISUAL SEARCH page so that it is easy to find jobs / Jorbbers / Jorbbees around your location. Travel directions (Click Bus Icon) by Bus / Train are also shown (powered by Gothere.sg).
Social networking widgets will be introduced shortly as we are bug-testing them. These tools will allow Jorbb users to find / add their friends and share job offers with each other.
We are also in discussions with other Web 2.0 start-ups to see how we can collaborate and leverage on one another's technologies.
How is Jorbb.com™ funded?
Jorbb.comTM is a subsidiary of H1Studio (http://h1studio.com), is privately held and profitable, with no debt or venture capital. So, we can focus 100% on satisfying our customers. Other H1Studio offerings include 100for100 Web Hosting (Web Hosting Services at http://100for100.com) and RPWorkshop (Rapid Prototyping and Render Farm Facility at http://rpworkshop.com).
Jorbb.comTM is only a platform for user generated content, so we would like to hear from you, to make Jorbb.comTM better. Without your inputs, we do not exist.
Thanks for reading and please email any comments / suggestions / improvements you would like to see on Jorbb.comTM.
Jorbb.com will launch in 2 weeks. We are almost done with ironing out most of the bugs and will be in Beta mode when "live".
You will stand a chance to win a prize (Five Apple® iPod Shuffles, a Sony® PSP Slim, a Nintendo® DS Lite and the grand prize of an Acer® Aspire One mini-notebook(TBC)*) just for being on our mailer and by setting up your FREE account!
We will annouce winners at the end of August.
Jorbb will be Singapore's 1st freelance / casual / part time / contract job site with a twist... actually many twists :)
*All fields compulsary. Refer 5 friends or Sign-up when site has launched to qualify for the lucky draw. Please use your real name as winners will be notified by email. Duplicate emails will be disqualified. Lucky draw is open to Singaporeeans / PRs only. Winners to be announced end of August. Judges reserve rights to replace prizes of similar value. Judges decision is final. We adhere to anti-spam policies and will not redistribute / resell your email to external parties. Jorbb.com is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of the listed products or retailers. Trademarks, service marks, logos, (including, without limitation, the individual names of products and retailers) are the property of their respective owners.
We've been keeping it low for a while, but we have exciting news.
Final site testing is being conducted right now (this is our 4th round - and we keep adding features to Jorbb.com). We are hoping to wrap up middle next week and launch by the last weekend of July.
Thanks for your patience and don't forget to register your email for the lucky draw :p
Pssst, during the opening week, we're going to give away a "newly launched lifestyle companion" and a couple of PSP slims to some lucky registered users. More details later as the mystery product is not in the shops yet.
So we went to collect our Singapore GP tickets at the post office and when the staff came out with the 6 tickets, we were wondering why they came out in 3 big boxes!
Check out the unboxing of our Singapore F1 GP tickets. By the way, we managed to fit all 6 ticket packs into 1 box.
Thanks for all the emails, requesting information on what Jorbb.com will be all about.
At the moment, we are finalising some bugs on the site and hope to launch mid July.
In the mean time, we have opened our landing page and would like you to submit your emails so that we can inform you when we have launched. We will be giving away 5 iPod Shuffles.
On launch day, we will be also giving some prizes away for those who sign up on that day so stay tuned (hint - it'll be small, shiny, portable and so so useful).
Oh, we are also testing Zopim on our landing page, so don't be surprised if Jorbb sends you a chat request!
Julian Low from Zopim kindly granted us a beta test account. "Zopim is a company incubating under Garag3 from NUS that helps improve your visitors' experience on your website. Their product enables your visitors and clients to stay in touch with you through your website, using the most convenient form of communication, instant messages." - SgEntrepreneurs
Not to reveal too much, but we are hoping to launch sometime in June 2008. We will not just be another job site. There'll be heaps of incentives for being a Jorbber (Employer) or Jorbbee (Job Seeker / Employee).
At the moment, final UAT is being conducted by 2 teams, to iron out bugs on the site.
We aim to be a one-stop blog for articles which will help you stay relevant in this every changing landscape.
As our target audience will range from students to employers, we will also post interesting articles on Web 2.0 websites / applications / widgets which may help with your day to day productivity as well as some tech news.
Do subscribe to our RSS feed using the link on the top right sidebar.
Together with 6 other start-ups, Shen presented Jorbb.com at Techgoondu event which was held at Geek Terminal.
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