Talent Connect Whanganui

Talent Connect Whanganui connects Whanganui Employers with skilled job seekers

Talent Connect Whanganui is designed to connect Whanganui Employers with skilled job seekers. Employers & job seekers can sign up to Talent Connect by creating a profile. Once registered, employers & job seekers can search through Talent Connect and match with options that are suitable.

Businesses will get:

- Opportunity to connect with skilled job seekers in Whanganui

- Opportunity to connect with other employers that might be interested in co sharing employees

- To see potential employees with key transferable skills who could be a good fit for their business

- To see potential employees who have matched with the business that might not have been considered through traditional advertising.

Job seekers will get:

- Opportunity to connect directly with employers for further conversation around job opportunities

- To build a profile of key skills that assist with redeployment back into workforce

- To connect with further opportunities for skill development/ retraining locally

- To see employers who have matched with them

The opportunity to connect will only appear once there is a match between both the job seeker and the business.

The app features & notifications include:

Member profile actions include: name, job title, photo (optional), goals, bio, interests, industry, previous organisations, social media links, experience & skills, hourly rate (optional)

- Members can indicate preferred ways to meet

- Ability to search for people by job type

- Ability to search people by their goal e.g. full time, part time etc.

- Ability to search for people by their interests

- Ability to view other members full profile based on your search

- Ability to match by “swiping right” on profiles that suit

- Ability to “swipe left” to take no action on a profile

- Ability to “thumbs up” to endorse other members that you may have worked with previously

- Ability to view member endorsements on their profile

- Notification of a match being made (2 members have matched on each other’s profile).

- Ability to send a message to your match- this will be a notification sent to your match.

- Displays the members that have liked or matched with your profile

- Displays your matches as a list

- Unmatch with profiles you don’t think suit

- Report and issues/missuses

- View the profile of your matches