By CASEY NEILL
CASEY Cardinia businesses can find local employees through a free online service.
Residents can also sign up to Casey Cardinia Jobs to find a job near home.
The City of Casey and Cardinia Shire Council are providing the service to help local businesses grow and attract new business to the region to make ‘live local, work local, employ local’ a reality.
Through the portal, job-seekers can receive local job alerts, upload a resume so they can apply for jobs from any mobile device, keep up to date with education and training opportunities, job expos and local employment trends, and share jobs and opportunities they find with friends and family via social media.
Employers can upload a job advert to be advertised to all job-seekers or just locals.
Successful Endeavours managing director Ray Keefe said the Berwick company picked up a large project to develop a custom mobile phone.
“This is a commercial device that allows you leave your SIM at home and travel the world without paying global roaming charges,” he said.
“I had two people who could contribute to the work but needed a third.
“So I placed an ad with the jobs portal and picked up someone exactly right for this opportunity who lived locally and had the skill set and experience I needed.
“So a good win for the Monash not-so-Freeway and for us.”
Comacon managing director Donna Groves has used the portal professionally and personally.
“We hired our au pair through the jobs portal,” she said.
“We also used it for seven or eight administrative positions and an IT position.”
Ms Groves moved the consultancy firm from Canberra to Botanic Ridge.
She heard about the jobs portal from a Casey of Casey economic development team member who heard about the relocation and gave Ms Groves a call.
“We’ve used it again and again,” she said.
Ms Groves said linking the listings through social media increased exposure.
“Any time we think we can get someone local, we try that first,” she said.
“It makes a difference to output but it makes for happy employees when they’re close to home.”
