Match no more, get relevant people
Posted: August 19th, 2009 | Author: Saleh Esmaeili | Filed under: Business, UAE | Tags: interactive, jobs, middle east, online, recruitment, UAE | Comments Off
One day out of the blue I visited Bayt.com n’ got me an account, uploaded my resume n’ kept waiting for interviews, wait, when was that? Sometime between 2002-2003. Then I remember being hired using my own networking and contacts n’ in the first month of my job I started getting calls from Bayt.com offering me jobs.
Six years after that, I still get e-mails for saved searches. But the odd thing is I receive jobs that are completely irrelevant to my outdated resume, but perfectly matching my new roles & skills. Weird & Spooky. Then I calmed down, n’ figured the market for talent is really down in the low that the word “Match” ain’t the target anymore, the new match is “Relevant”. Another look at this n’ I was feeling my own pain seeking fit candidates for positions to fill in my team.
You could easily find Web Design positions filled by Graphic Designers, or Web UI designer filled by DB/Software-Programmers. Now this could indicate two very important facts about the UAE’s talent market. First, who’s screening? screeners are failing to understand Web and related jobs positions. Second, employers are hiring, desperate. But hey, the region doens’t lack talent, seek the right ones, n’ you shall get’em. But! can you compensate them? The reason you wouldn’t be able to attract the right talent is the fact that most of the employers had no idea of the right budget for the right candidates, led by wrong data you get wrong candidates. Fact.
