Just came across this new service on John Chow. I’ve been intimately involved with the Philippines and in particular people wanting to move to the Philippines and find jobs in the Philippines for more than 8 years now.
How can I find a job there is a very frequent question. Often, for a foreigner, there isn’t a good answer. See a few samples here, and here and here. My friend Bob has been running a "Find A Job" list for some time now and the offerings seem slim.
But here’s a service that is just starting and you can use it to find a job, or, use it to help people find jobs while potentially making a little money
I’m talking about a very brand new service called IPSOJOBS that has set itself the goal of being the world leader in on-line job listings … for free … hard to argue with that. here’s the gist of how it works:
What is IPSOJOBS? Ipsojobs is a free job bank focused on urgent employment.
How does IPSOJOBS work? Select your city and publish or look for available job postings.
Can you make money with IPSOJOBS? Quite simply, yes. You share advertiser revenue with the site for ads that display in "your" city.
Can I Still "Get In"? Good chance you can. Just go to the site and look for cities, anywhere in the world that you are interested in … in particular, ones you are aquatinted with … if no one yet "has" that city, a simple form and one email gets it for you.
What If Someone already "has" the city I want: make another city. This service will grow rapidly to focus in on small areas and districts where the job market is hot. You can ask for as many or as few areas as you wish.
Won’t This Be a Lot Of Work? Only as much as you want it to be. All you are required to do under the terms of service is to monitored the ads for employment that are posted … for free, how cool is that … and take off anything inappropriate. If you want to promote your area(s) of interest … blog about them, perhaps (you knew that was coming from me, didn’t you?
), post legitimate listings of your own, buy pay per click ads to drive people to your city’s page ,etc., you are free to spend as much time as you ant … but you aren’t required to do anything except regular "cleanup".
Does It Work? Apparently so. I signed up for a couple relatively obscure (to the rest of the world) cities here in the Philippines and jobs are already appearing … and I seem to have already made AdSense money from them.
So if you are looking for a job in the Philippines, peruse the listings. (hint, nothing I see so far prevents you from also making a "Services Offered" sort of ad … but please don’t clutter the system with those pitiful "please hire me" kind of listings, it’s not a charity operation.
If you don’t see an area in the Philippines (or anywhere else) that already has a "manager", think about signing up to be "the one" … it might even pay off, and you’ll certainly learn a thing or three. Anyway, just a not to let you know about it, as we used to say when we addresses mail to the colonel, "this data is provided for your information and action as deemed necessary"
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