Quickwork.com
Detailed Process
Creating worker user account:
The user account lists the stagnant attributes of the worker.
Financial details:
1. Paypal account; or
2. Credit card
Contact details:
1. Telephone number(s);
2. Mailing address; and
3. Email
Anonymous CV:
1. Age;
2. Gender;
3. language(s) spoken;
4. Education level;
5. Industry qualifications;
6. Fields of experience;
7. Years of experience in each field;
To be completed anonymously using broadly grouping tick boxes. Education,
employment history and experience is not listed specifically or onymously.
The worker is provided with an anonymous worker number.
Creating employer user account:
The user account lists the stagnant attributes of the employer.
Financial details:
1. Paypal account; or
2. Credit card
Contact details:
1. Telephone number(s);
2. Mailing address; and
3. Email
Online profile:
1. Industry; and
2. location
To be completed anonymously using broadly grouping tick boxes. Location is
not listed specifically, rather by general geographic areas.
The employer is provided with an anonymous user number.
Listing silent advertisement by worker
The advertisement lists the dynamic requirements of the worker.
I am looking for work:
1. when (between dates or constantly);
2. Where (broad location); and
3. in what industry
Multiples of each category can be listed to broaden search.
I want my advertisement to remain active until:
1. date; or
2. indefinatley
Advertisements are silent. They are not listed publicly. A search mechanism
matches employer and worker advertisements.
The website holds a database of active advertisements that are not visible to
users.
Listing of silent advertisement by employer
The advertisement lists the dynamic requirements of the employer.
I am looking for a worker:
1. of age (by groups);
2. of gender;
3. of nationality;
4. of education level (by category);
5. which experience in (by category);
6. with which industry qualifications.
Multiples of each category can be listed to broaden search.
I want my advertisement to remain active until:
1.date; or
2.indefinatley.
Advertisement database
Advertisements are silent. They are not listed publicly.
The website holds a database of active advertisements that are not visible to
users.
Each time a new advertisement is listed by either employer or worker, it is
recorded in the database.
Programmed matching
When a new advertisement is recorded on the database by X, the program
automatically searches all worker advertisements for compatibility.
If there is an existing compatible advertisement recorded on the database by Y,
both X and Y are notified immediately of the mutually beneficial positions.
If there are no existing compatible opportunities, X’s advertisement remains
active within the database.
If at a later date, Z records a compatible advertisement X and Z are immediately
notified of the mutually beneficial positions.
The location of the employer must match the location the worker requires
employment
Ideally, parties would be notified of a match by a means more accessable or
more commonly used than the website. Automated SMS would seem the most
desirable.
Information exchange
Once the parties are notified of a mutually beneficial position, either party can
request to exchange contact details with the other party.
The other party is notified of the request and asked to respond:
'Would you like to exchange contact details with X?'
If the requested party responds in the affirmative, then the contact details of both
parties, which had previously remained hidden, become visible.
Both parties are charged a nominal sum for the transaction.
Employment
Having now been put in touch with each other, the role of Quickwork ends.
The employer and worker are left to make their own arrangments for work to be
undertaken.
Termination of advertisment
Once information is exchanged both parties will be asked:
'Would you like to terminate your advertisment, or keep the advertisment active?'
If the party has successfuly arranged work from their previous information
exchange, it is expected that they would choose to terminate the advertisment.
This action removes their advertisment from the database and saves the
advertiser being served with further requests for information exchanges in the
future.
If one party has contacted the other, but found the terms of employment
unacceptable, they may wish for ther advertisment to remain active, so as to
attract other possible matches.
Feedback
Three months after an information exchange has occured, both parties are
prompted to leave feedback as to their interaction with the party to whom they
have exchanged information.
The party offering the feedback is required to answer a one very simple and
direct question to ensure that parties are not detered from providing feedback by
any complicated questioning.
The party is directed to rate the other party out of six stars, with one star being
extremely undesirable and six stars being extremely desirable.
There is also a seventh option, marked as a 'x', which is to be used where the
parties exchanged information, but an employment relationship did not develop
as a result of that exchange.
Parties are encouraged to leave feedback on those that they have interacted with
by way of discounts.
Both the employer and the worker are expected to leave feedback as the overall
desirability of interacting with the other party. This is encouraged by offering
discounts on future transactions to those parties that have a good history of
leaving feedback.
If a party has left feedback for all other parties with which they have interacted,
they are charged a lesser amount on the next occasion that they request or
consent to an information exchange.
A summary of the feedback that a party has received from their previous
employment relationships is displayed on their anonymous CV to assist
advertisers in the search for reliable workers and employees.
The feedback system, and the associated discounts encourages and rewards
frequent users of the websites service.
The feedback system attempts to create a self regluating system.
The usefulness and reliability of the feedback system is limited in situations
where the parties have previously not used Quickwork.com to gain work, or have
used Quickwork.com only a limited number of times.
The feedback system is most useful when used in Quickwork.com's targetted
market niche. Parties are primarily looking for a short employment relationship.
They require only breif information on the parties they intend to contract with.
Because the employment relationships are short, parties are likely to use
quickwork a number of times each year. Each time that the quickwork system is
used, more feedback is provided and the reliability of the aggregation of the
feedback can be taken to be more reliable.