Job Shop
Employer and applicant databanks matched against terms of reference, bringing recruitment services closer to the people who need them.
Employers recruiting repeatedly, and programmes tasked with youth or community employment.
What the work covers
- Applicant registration and profiling
- Employer vacancy intake
- Matching against written terms of reference
- Referral and shortlist supply to employers
- Job readiness briefing for registered applicants
- Labour market information for both sides
What you are left holding
- Maintained applicant and employer databank
- Matched shortlists with profiles
- Placement and outcome records
- Periodic labour market summary
The work in detail
The Job Shop is a standing matching service rather than a one-off recruitment brief: a maintained databank of applicants and of employers, matched against written terms of reference. It exists to bring employment services closer to the people who need them, including those who would never see a national newspaper advert.
Applicants are profiled on qualification, experience, sector and location, with documents verified at registration rather than at shortlist, which is what makes the databank worth searching. Employers submit requirements as written terms of reference, so matching is against criteria rather than impressions, and candidates are ranked before any shortlist is released.
Referred applicants are briefed on the role, the employer and the interview process before they attend, which raises conversion and reduces the wasted panel time employers complain about. Outcomes, placements and rejections alike, are recorded, so both the databank and the matching improve over time, and the accumulated data supports periodic labour market summaries for employers and jobseekers alike.
Job Shop
Scenarios, for reference
An employer recruiting the same role monthly
A distribution business hired sales staff continuously and lost weeks to advertising each time. A maintained pool with verified documents cut the cycle to a matched shortlist within days of a vacancy being logged.
A community programme with no route to employers
A youth employment project had trained participants and no employer relationships. Registering them and intake from local employers created the missing link and produced placements that could be reported.
Candidates who never see the advert
Suitable applicants outside Kampala were not reaching national adverts. District-level registration brought them into the same pool as urban candidates, and several were placed against terms of reference they matched better.