“Wanted: almost everyone”, the The Sunday Times’ The head of the front page screamed a few weeks ago.
With the unemployment rate of West -Australia under 4 percent for 39 of the previous 41 months, we seem to be in a state of full employment; And employers regret the shortage of skills.
Indeed, as the article reported, a “amazing number of jobs [have been] Vacant vacant for at least four years while WA begs for more employees. ”
Employers spend a lot of time trying to attract and train the right staff, often to see them poached by someone else.
In the meantime, we hear on the other side of the market that job seekers should request 100 requests or grind more, perhaps occasionally get an interview, secured without work.
It is clear that the job market does not work efficiently for everyone. Various technological solutions have come into this space and disappeared.
The ASX-GENTED category murderer continues to dominate the space, although networks only 30 percent of the available jobs are advertised, filling the networks as well as possible.
Imagine how much more difficult this situation is for the fast -moving hospitality sector, which tries to find people to the staff in the short term a shift; Often at night. A few startups have tried to tackle this problem.
Quickshift, Flexistaff and indeed are some of the options, but they don’t have many jobs in Perth.
Because they are simple job boards (just like searching), they cannot respond quickly to fill in short -term positions.
With years of previous experiences of waiting tables, former marketing student and journalist Neelam Dajee has thought of this dilemma.
“My interviews with the customer showed me that finding qualified staff was the biggest problem,” said Mrs. Dajee Business news.
“Jobs Boards does not solve it. What restaurants need is an available pool of passing on talent, ready to work. Now.”
At first, Mrs. Dajee thought it could be an app, but after having won a place in the recent launchlab AI program that was Bloom in Crawley, she realized that she could launch a simpler, faster version to test the market.
“I managed to launch my first product in week three of the program and I was the first to win income,” said Mrs. Dajee.
She called it ‘Ding Hospitality’, where those who are looking for informal work or are looking for short-term staff, filling in a simple Google form and, when something matches, their phone ‘thing’.
“There is nothing in Perth, except some Facebook pages. What makes things different is that all applicants have been screened and experienced,” said Mrs. Dajee.
The price for placing an advertisement on the platform has been kept low and the user rate has become five -time since the launch last month, despite no marketing spending.
“Creating a minimally viable product without a tech founder at the beginning gave me a completely new perspective and appreciation for Solo Tech founders who have to do it all,” said Mrs. Dajee.
Since then she has hired a technical co-founder, Kyle Newman, an experienced software developer who has worked with startups in the US, the UK and Australia.
“Kyle’s experience as a machine learning and full-stack engineer will play an important role in bringing thing to the next level,” said Mrs. Dajee.
“He has had his own frustrations with current recruitment and recruitment processes, so he brings his own passion for the project.”
It is clear that Mrs. Dajee is at the start of her journey, her first startup. But she also feels that she has taken a long way from the university student ‘Hospo’ Shift Worker from a few years ago.
“I often think back to those days … Struggling to hire people, work for six days to cover services in the cafe,” she said.
“I also think of the version of me who desperately wanted to earn some extra money before I was traveling, but my job could no longer offer me hours around my uni schedule at that time.
“Thing would have been great then. Thing is not just a platform; it is the solution I wanted me to have, and now I am building it for everyone who needs it.”
• Charlie Gunningham has spent 25 years in the startup sector of WA, is in the Innovation Advisory Board of the WA government and is chairman of Startup Wa
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