Help me spread the rumor. Thanks! And good luck; because I’ll pay you DKK 10.000 for finding the right candidate to join our amazing designer dream team.

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UI DESIGNER at TraceWorks
see full job posting here 

Your task will be to participate in the conceptual design phase to the final development phase, by visualizing ideas, designing finished screens, to creating html mock-ups for future Headlight modules.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
* Passionate about graphic user interface design
* Strong theory of general graphic design
* Creative and has good illustration skills
* Strong knowledge with web design technologies like html and css.
* Fluent in relevant Adobe software
* Good skills with Flash and JavaScript is a plus
* Comprehension of online marketing is a plus

OUR QUALIFICATIONS
Learn more about what the hell we actually do:
http://www.traceworks.com

Learn more about how it is like working at TraceWorks:
http://www.traceworks.com/jobs.htm

Check-out this blog post to learn more about what we find cool and inspirational:
http://www.traceworks.com/inspiration

PLACE OF WORK
You will be working from our office in Copenhagen, Denmark.

HOW TO APPLY
Jesper Bram, Chief Product Designer – TraceWorks.com
Email: jebn@traceworks.com
Phone: +45 33 118 118

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A lot of people ask me what the hell LinkedIn is actually good for. For you out there who’s not familiar with LinkedIn it’s an online network of more than 13 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.

Well, I could probably come up with a few more useful things but it’s primary function to me is that it really helps me locate and eventually hire some amazingly talented colleagues.

The procedure is straight forward.

1. Click the “People” tab
2. Type in your search criteria e.g. “C# .NET SQL2005″ and select the appropriate “Industry” & “Location”
3. Locate the right people among the search results and choose “Send InMail”

4. Select “Career opportunity” and write a letter of introduction:

This is how I’ve recruited half of my last 10 colleagues: Very talented people who were not actively looking for a job change. So I guess it works. This is my statistics the last year or so:

Note! Remember only to contact people through LinkedIn who’s “interested in career opportunities” - a user profile setting which per default is set to “interested …”. If you begin to use LinkedIn a lot for this specific purpose then you’ll probably need to upgrade to a PRO account - which includes 200 “InMails per month”.

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“Most job boards are a crap shoot. You post an ad and face an email deluge from unqualified applicants. If you like collecting resumes, that’s fine. If you actually want to hire someone, it sucks.”

This is how Jason Fried introduces 37signals’ job board which is placed alongside both the company’s hugely popular blog (73.000+ subscribers) and corporate website (1 million+ web apps sold).

The hipsters from 37signals are not the only ones doing this. Many of the most influential and popular international bloggers are also beginning to do this.

The idea behind this new bread of job boards is pretty simple: You need to hang out where the talents you’re looking for hang out … and that is not on traditional old school job boards - right?

I’ve been using some of the boards a few times - both for TraceWorks and Wulffmorgenthaler, and they’re so much more effective than traditional job boards.

Here’s are the best ones - I think:

- jobs.37signals.com
- www.crunchboard.com
- www.thinkvitamin.com/jobs
- www.authenticjobs.com
- www.krop.com

It seems this trend is not showing in Denmark? I don’t know any popular Danish bloggers who’s added a job board to his or her blog. It’s pretty easy to do so and potentially a better commercial deal than traditional ads like Adwords.

Get started? Well, you can be up-and-running in just 5 minutes using one of the just fine out-of-box job boards available: Job-a-matic, Job Thread, and Marketplaces.

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I’ve meet-up with the guys behind www.mwr.jobs a few times, Anders, Jonas, and Robert. They have great execution power - something I admire. I’ve tried their new service and it works ok .. of course they need a little more attention from the market, but I think the theory and business could work (it does so for Zubka; the international leader in this space). Especially because of the people behind.

A Danish online magazine Comon.dk just interviewed me about what I think of the company (in Danish):

[…] Most Wanted Recruting (MWR) har stadig sin første ansættelse til gode, men den kan meget vel være på vej. Og med Morten Wulffs underskrift på.

Han er direktør i softwarehuset Tracework, der i skrivende stund har han en annonce på MWR, der udløser 16.000 kroner, hvis man kan støve en senior udvikler op til Traceworks.

Og de penge kan snart være på vej til udbetaling.

»Det har været en stor stor succes at bruge MWR. Jeg har cirka fået kontakt med 10 personer, og det er overvældende i forhold til de kanaler, som jeg ellers har brugt,« siger Morten Wulff.

Blandt de kandidater, der har vist sig i kølvandet på annonceringen er direktøren sikker på, at der findes en kommende Traceworks-medarbejder. Så han er allerede positiv over for at forsøge sig igen.

»Jeg kan sagtens opnå de samme resultater, som jeg har fået med MWR, andre steder. Men det ville kræve en helt anden arbejdsindsats. Så ville jeg skulle bruge tid på at lokalisere, finde, kontakte og screene kandidaterne på egen hånd, og det er altså noget, som kan tage sindsygt lang tid. På den her måde er der andre, der gør de ting for mig,« mener Morten Wulff.

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