From small beginnings...
We had the germ of an idea several years ago.
Recruitment was becoming increasingly expensive and time consuming for employers, people with specialised skills were difficult to find, and even when you did find the right people they were always busy.
Job agencies were constantly chasing people for up to date CVs, asking when they were available for work, and if they didn't mind working long distances away. If all else failed, agencies simply asked if they knew anyone else with similar skills who might be available.
Internet job boards had become the norm in the mid to late nineties. Clearly job boards had some advantages, but in a lot of ways the job board model is outdated, restrictive and expensive. Today we still see multiple adverts for the same job, non-existent jobs advertised to phish for peoples CVs and perhaps most peculiar of all, the majority of job boards ask you to send your CV to them for free and then sell it on to a limited set of employers for hundreds of pounds.
Many smaller firms couldn't afford to advertise job vacancies in this way (or pay for peoples CVs) and so a great deal of jobs are "discovered" by word of mouth.
Today, people are changing jobs much more frequently than before and the whole recruitment business has become more fluid.
Changing an industry...
We want to open up the recruitment business and make it easier for people to advertise their skills to a much wider audience than has been possible before. We believe that people should have more control over what they say about themselves; their CV, their availability, their references...
Using Knokknok you can control when your CV can be viewed or downloaded, display references that you've received from previous jobs, update when you're available for work...
The future...
So from that small germ of an idea we're now at the stage of attempting to turn the recruitment industry on its head.
Wish us luck or, even better, come and join us!
