At the beginning of the year we launched a jobs site for Oxford County Council. The website involves organisations listing their vacancies as they arise, so that members of the public can search for them and apply using a CV they have stored. The website is built on WordPress with carefully selected plugins powering the jobs board so as to be quick to turn around and cost effective to produce. The site replaced a previous jobs board which was clunky and hard to search, so the new site features the ability to search by geographical area (including seeing results on a map) and key filters such as whether the job is permanent or temporary, full time or part time, ect.

Obviously, as a council project, it’s important that the engagement of the site is understood so that the team tasked with getting care organisations to input their jobs can understand how it’s being used and whether the care organisations are getting the best out of it.

One of the ways we’ve helped with this element of the project is to recently roll out some automated reporting, along with improved automated communications. Previously, with the old site, a member of the team would need to ask care organisations each month if they’d filled any roles using the old system. Now, we are able to email each care home that has had a job advertised that month, and ask them to click a link if they filled the role successfully. We can then record the results of that click and produce a report each month on not just how many jobs have been listed, and how many applications there have been, but also on whether that job was filled, without the care organisation needing to remember to come back and take the job offline before it expires, and without a member of the website team needing to manually follow up with each care company who have posted a job.

If you’ve got a time consuming task you carry out repeatedly, please do contact us in case we can help automate it and make your life a little more productive!