Job hunting

Nov 7, 2008 by John    6 Comments    Posted under: random

I’m putting the feelers out there by every means necessary to try and find a new job. Not just any job but the right job. My role here has been made redundant. I’ve known a while. So this isn’t a pity-seeking post – I’m just trying to avail of all my contacts. It is a pity though! I knew this job was too good to be true. Palm has been the most professional and maturely run company I’ve ever had the pleasure to work for, with genuinely great benefits and no nonsense from anyone. The redundancies here aren’t really related to the recession; we’re just not selling phones in Europe at the moment, we’ve got the likes of the iPhone as competition. So the sites that I look after are going to be made redundant themselves or cut right back.

My role has been as Web Producer of Palm EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) which has been a mixture of web master, web design, content management and project management. I’m looking for a similar role, or a role as a senior web designer (my main area of expertise) or user interface designer. Or anything interesting that involves multimedia design and production. If you know of anyone that might be interested please pass it on. I’m available at the end of November.

• Web design portfolio: www.johnbraine.com/webdesign/index.html, though this isn’t fully representative of all I have done or can do.
• You can download a CV from www.johnbraine.com/JohnBraineCV2008.doc
• I’m also on LinkedIn.

Recruitment site fail

Nov 7, 2008 by John    2 Comments    Posted under: web design

I often come across some really bad examples of interactive web sites. But some really stick their head above the paraphet and beg to be made an example of. If you go to recruitment.ie, you are redirected to http://www.sharewatch.com/RECRUITMENT.php. This site contains two iframes; one contains a sharewatch banner while the other loads the whole content from http://www.loadzajobs.ie.

Here’s the thing

This sharewatch page refreshes every 90 seconds. And when it refreshes, it reloads the homepage of loadzajobs. So no matter what you are doing, including filling out a form for a job or browsing the site, it goes back to the homepage every 90 seconds. Massive fail.

I made a query with loadzajobs (took two attempts to fill out the form). And just got a reply advising me to only go directly to loadzajobs.ie. So I guess it’s the other guys hijacking the site and making a major mess of implementing their hijack.

While on the subject, another recruitment site, http://www.computerjobs.ie/ occasionally have a banner ad with thunder crackling away! Bad enough that they have sound in a banner, tut tut! but cracking thunder underlining the doom and gloom while you search for a new job!? nasty!