- How It Works
- Last Updated August 29th, 2021
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- Show me how to find a job
- • list a job opportunity
- • find people to hire
- • create an employment profile
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- Find a Job Listing
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- Active job listings are found on the Help Wanted! page. When you first bring up this page,
- you will see several criteria by which you can narrow your results, though none are required. When you click the
- Search button, you will see open job listings filtered by whatever criteria you
- specified. Each job displays its title, its location, whether it is a remote opportunity, and (if specified) the
- date by which the job needs to be filled.
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- Clicking the View link on a listing brings up the full view page for a listing. This page
- displays all of the information from the search results, along with the citizen who posted it, and the full
- details of the job. The citizen’s name is a link to their profile page at their Mastodon instance; you can
- use that to get their handle, and use Mastodon’s communication facilites to inquire about the position.
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- (If you know of a way to construct a link to Mastodon that would start a direct message, please reach out;
- I’ve searched and searched, and asked NAS, but have not yet determined how to do that.)
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- Job Listings
- Create a Job Listing
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- The My Job Listings page shows all of the job listings you have created. To add a new one,
- click the Add a New Listing button. This page allows you to specify a title for the
- listing; the continent and region; whether it is a remote opportunity; the date by which a job needs to be filled;
- and a full description of the position, using Markdown. Once you save the listing, it will
- be visible to the other citizens here.
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- Maintain and Share Your Job Listings
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- The My Job Listings page will show you all of your active job listings just below the
- Add a Job Listing button. Within this table, you can edit the listing, view it, or expire
- it (more on that below). The View link will show you the job listing just as other users will
- see it. You can share the link from your browser on any No Agenda-affiliated Mastodon instance, and those who
- click on it will be able to view it. (Existing users of Jobs, Jobs, Jobs will go right to it; others will need to
- authorize this site’s access, but then they will get there as well.)
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- Expire a Job Listing
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- Once the job is filled, or the opportunity has passed, you will want to expire the listing; this is what the
- Expire link allows you to do. When you click it, you will be presented with a single question
- – was the job filled due to its listing here? If not, leave that blank, click the
- Expire button, and the listing will be expired. If you click that box, though, another
- Markdown editor will appear, where you can share a story of the experience. This is not required, but if you put
- text there, it will be recorded as a Success Story, and other users will be able to read about your success.
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- Once you have at least one expired job listing, the My Job Listing page will have a new
- section below your active listings, where you can see your expired ones. You can still view the expired listing,
- and links that you may have shared will still pull up the listing; there will be an “expired” label
- beside the title, so that whoever is viewing it knows that they are reading about a job that is no longer
- available.
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- Searching Profiles
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- The Employment Profiles link at the side allows you to search for profiles by continent, the
- citizen’s desire for remote work, a skill, or any text in their professional biography and experience. If
- you find someone with whom you’d like to discuss potential opportunities, the name at the top of the profile
- links to their Mastodon profile, where you can use its features to get in touch.
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- Your Employment Profile
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- The employment profile is your résumé, visible to other citizens here. It also allows you to specify
- your real name, if you so desire; if that is filled in, that is how you will be identified in search results,
- profile views, etc. If not, you will be identified as you are on your Mastodon instance; this system updates your
- current display name each time you log on.
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- Completing Your Profile
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- The My Employment Profile page lets you establish or modify your employment profile; the
- Dashboard page also has buttons that let you create, edit, and view your profile.
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- The Professional Biography is the “Objective” part of a traditional
- résumé. This section supports Markdown, so you can include actual
- headings, formatting, etc.
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- Skills are optional, but they are the place to record skills you have. Along with each skill, there is a
- Notes field, which can be used to indicate the time you’ve practiced a particular
- skill, the mastery you have of that skill, etc. It is free-form text, so it is all up to you how you utilize
- the field.
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- The Experience field is intended to capture a chronological or topical employment history.
- This Markdown space can be used to capture chronological history, certifications, or any other information
- – however you would like it presented to fellow citizens.
- (If you would like a chronological job builder, reach out and let us know.)
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- If you check the Allow my profile to be searched publicly checkbox and you
- are seeking employment, your continent, region, and skills fields will be searchable and displayed to public
- users of the site. They will not be tied to your Mastodon handle or real name; they are there to let people peek
- behind the curtain a bit, and hopefully inspire them to join us.
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- Viewing and Sharing Your Profile
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- Once your profile has been established, the My Employment Profile page will have a button at
- the bottom that will let you view your profile the way all other validated users will be able to see it. (There
- will also be a link to this page from the Dashboard.) The URL of this page can be shared on
- any No Agenda-affiliated Mastodon instance, if you would like to share it there. Just as with job listings,
- existing users will go straight there, while others will get there once they authorize this application.
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- The name on employment profiles is a link to that user’s profile on their Mastodon instance; from there,
- others can communicate further with you using the tools Mastodon provides.
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- “I Found a Job!”
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- If your profile indicates that you are seeking employment, and you secure employment, that is something you will
- want to update (and – congratulations!). From both the Dashboard and
- My Employment Profile pages, you will see a link that encourages you to tell us about it.
- Click either of those links, and you will be brought to a page that allows you to indicate whether your employment
- actually came from someone finding your profile on Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and gives you a place to write about the
- experience. These stories are only viewable by validated users, so feel free to use as much (or as little)
- identifying information as you’d like. You can also submit this page with all the fields blank; in that
- case, your “Seeking Employment” flag is cleared, and the blank story is recorded.
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- As a validated user, you can also view others success stories. Clicking Success Stories in
- the sidebar will display a list of all the stories that have been recorded. If there is a story to be read, there
- will be a link to read it; if you submitted the story, there will also be an Edit link.
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- Publicly Available Information
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- The Job Seekers page for profile information will allow users to search for and display the
- continent, region, skills, and notes of users who are seeking employment and have opted in to
- their information being publicly searchable. If you are a public user, this information is always the latest we
- have; check out the link at the top of the search results for how you can learn more about these fine human
- resources!
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- A Bit about Markdown
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- Markdown is a plain-text way to specify formatting quite similar to that provided by word processors. The
- original page for the
- project is a good good overview of its capabilities, and the pages at
- Markdown Guide give in-depth lessons
- to make the most of this language. The version of Markdown employed here supports many popular extensions, include
- smart quotes (turning "a quote" into “a quote”), tables, super/subscripts, and more.
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- Help / Suggestions
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- This is open-source software
- developed on Github];
- feel free to create
- an issue there, or look up @danieljsummers on No Agenda Social.
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