Amidst seem­ing­ly nev­er-end­ing news about the slow job mar­ket and the need for for­eign com­pa­nies to in­vest in the Trinidad and To­ba­go econ­o­my, one en­tre­pre­neur is de­liv­er­ing a dose of op­ti­mism and in­sight to Caribbean job seek­ers and em­ploy­ers. Subi­ra Willock, Howard Uni­ver­si­ty alum­nus and project man­ag­er at a lead­ing glob­al fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny has part­nered with CSO Re­search in Austin, Texas, to in­tro­duce Caribbean­jobLINK.com, a mem­bers-on­ly job search en­gine and vir­tu­al tal­ent ac­qui­si­tion of­fice, de­signed to stream­line on­line re­cruit­ment in the Caribbean mar­ket place.

"The biggest chal­lenges fac­ing em­ploy­ers and hu­man re­source man­agers in the Caribbean are the lack of vi­able on-line job ad­ver­tis­ing op­tions and the ab­sence of pre-screened, qual­i­ty can­di­dates from avail­able sites" said Willock. "I de­vel­oped the con­cept of Caribbean­jobLINK.com based on my ex­pe­ri­ence in the on-cam­pus re­cruit­ment of­fice at Howard and as a re­cruit­ing as­sis­tant at a soft­ware en­gi­neer­ing and con­sult­ing firm in Ar­ling­ton, Vir­ginia."

Caribbean­jobLINK.com brings a cus­tomised and per­son­al ex­pe­ri­ence to the on­line re­cruit­ing busi­ness to ad­dress the fun­da­men­tal con­cerns of this un­der­served por­tion of the HR mar­ket. Em­ploy­ers and HR man­agers that utilise ba­sic on-line job ad­ver­tise­ment ser­vices rou­tine­ly get in­un­dat­ed with hun­dreds of re­sumes from un­qual­i­fied can­di­dates. The sort­ing and screen­ing process alone oc­cu­pies nu­mer­ous man-hours be­fore a can­di­date is even called in for an in­ter­view.

Caribbean­jobLINK.com has found a way to pre-qual­i­fy both job seek­ers and em­ploy­ers, en­abling both to re­alise the ben­e­fits of on-line re­cruit­ment in a mem­bers-on­ly set­ting. Pow­ered by CSO Re­search's In­ter­fase sys­tem, this new site stream­lines job-seek­er and em­ploy­er reg­is­tra­tion, re­sume sub­mis­sions, doc­u­ment man­age­ment, place­ment track­ing, job post­ing and man­age­ment and re­sume books. Em­ploy­ers can quick­ly and eas­i­ly post jobs, set con­trols and qual­i­fi­ca­tions and watch qual­i­ty re­sumes come in via email alerts.

Most im­por­tant­ly, job-seek­ers are re­quired to sub­mit a pro­file of their qual­i­fi­ca­tions which de­ter­mines which types of jobs they can ap­ply for. This means em­ploy­ers will on­ly re­ceive re­sumes from can­di­dates that match their list­ed qual­i­fi­ca­tions. Caribbean­joblink.com, a trade­mark of the Cor­po­rate Pipeline Group Lim­it­ed is a pri­vate­ly-held com­pa­ny of­fer­ing on-line job ad­ver­tise­ment and search ser­vices to re­cruiters and job-seek­ers in the Caribbean mar­ket. In ad­di­tion to its pri­ma­ry mem­ber-based site, the com­pa­ny pro­vides a cost-ef­fec­tive, flex­i­ble and easy to use plat­form for em­ploy­ers to con­nect with can­di­dates ac­tive­ly seek­ing em­ploy­ment in the Caribbean. The com­pa­ny dif­fer­en­ti­ates it­self from oth­er on-line job boards that lack ap­pli­cant con­trols by im­ple­ment­ing sys­tem con­trols that pre­vent un­qual­i­fied can­di­dates from ap­ply­ing for spe­cialised jobs, en­sur­ing all can­di­dates are ful­ly qual­i­fied be­fore ap­pli­ca­tions are pub­lished to em­ploy­ers.