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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-29-2006 05:25

I noticed that everyone has different ways of doing their recruiting on the recruitment board. Some say "looking for agents" not much else, others give detailed descriptions. Also the agency descriptions don't reveal much, they are more a creative expression then anything else.

I have noticed that sometimes people join your agency, and from the get go it is already a bad fit. (For instance how much playing time someone wants have.) You often don't have time to interview someone in a detailed way. And you spend 5 days, spending a lot of time on a bad fit. The awkwarndess. And all the other things that could have been prevented by proper expectations. Like people that expect us to buy off their falses 2 times on their first day. :)

Recruitment ideas:
1. Have an additional format on the recruitment msg board. For instance the level of detective, if contacts are required, how many days online per week, cases played, rent required, faction standing, pass word sharing. Any perks like free equipment, free travel to agency destination. If there is something special set up for falses.
(This will really set apart agencies from each other.)

2. Have an additional info on the agency, at easy one page access. Super active, or not. Amount of treasure hunts won in the last month. If hanging out and being social is equally important as playing the game. A brief hello/bio/whatever of each member. I.e. a more detailed Agency page (like the detective page, that contains all sorts of stats about a single agent.) THis agency page could also include the want add, and they can apply on the detective page by sending private message.

3. Instead of an agent being able to receive an invite. For an agent also to apply. With on the receiving end options to: invite, decline, and save.

I am not sure if this is the way to go. But I just wanted to throw out there, that maybe some discussion about agency transparancy is handy. So my ideas are one way of doing that.

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Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Jan-29-2006 09:54

I like the idea of making the agency recruiting board a little more structured.

The one thing I'd be hesitant about is: that board is not only used by agencies looking for new members, but also sometimes by detectives who are looking for an agency to join. So, we would probably need to have two formats of posts, the options would change depending on whether or not the detective who was posting was already a member or not.

Maybe we should split the recruiting board into two seperate boards: One for agencies looking for members and the other for indipendents searching for an agency to join.

It could work like this:

1. Agencies Hiring Board:
* New threads could only be posted on by officers and directors.
* New threads have the following fields:
-- Agency Hiring (automatically filled in according to poster's agency)
-- City (automatically filled in according to poster's agency)
-- Level of commitment (time required per day/week)
-- Minimum Requirements (textbox to enter required experience, skills, contacts, factions, etc.)
-- Preferred Requirements (textbox to enter preferred experience, skills, contacts, factions, etc.)
-- Additional Info (a free-form textbox)

2. Detectives Seeking Agnecies Board
* New Thread can only be posted by subscribed detectives who do not belong to an agency.
* Fields for new threads:
-- Experience (automatic)
-- Age (automatic)
-- Skills and Credentials (a textbox for the detective to share whatever stats they want to with agencies)
-- Preferred Situation (a textbox to talk about the kind of agency the applicant is looking for)

I don't know, maybe the second board should just be free-form, since a lot of the info can be seen just by clicking on their detective page.


woody1
woody1
Well-Connected

Jan-29-2006 11:35

I like the idea of two boards but I dont think you should limit the second to detectives that arent in agencies. An example as to why is the one I posted in early January. I didnt want to leave where I was unless I found someone that could really use my help and it would have made it very difficult to get my message out to the people that really needed to see it and I didnt want to basically make myself a detective that could help no one till I found that spot. But I agree it should be limited to subscrbed detective this would solve the problem of people that cant read.

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jan-29-2006 11:42

Maybe the 'Applying Board' could be limited only to subscribed people? So we don't need a flashing neon pink sign. :)

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-29-2006 12:10

Yes that's exactly what I meant Ben. Part of it free form, part of it formatted. Splitting board is also an excellent idea.

What I meant with Agency page though. Is something different. It's like the "detective" page we all have that states our last log in, factions, contacts, bio etc. But then have a page like this to get more info about an agency: amount of treasure hunts won in the past 3 months, short input from each member, if they tend to move the HQ around a lot or not, some other info. A page that can just be a fun project in order for the community to have a better idea what the difference is between agencies. Or start some kind of discussion among directors how people run their agencies differently. I have had a lot of people approach me how to deal on certain agency issues.

It's kind of like chamber of commerce information. :) An excellent place for it would be the hall of records. And this also would fulfill the returning question of having a place somewhere where all agencies are listed.

Colonel Shanty
Colonel Shanty

Jan-29-2006 12:21

I would love two boards, and I think Ben's idea hit me spot on. If only subscribed people (of either no agency or with an agency wanting to join somewhere else) could enter the Application Board, and only Officers and Director's (subbed and not subbed, being that you may still be in an agency and direct it if you aren't subbed) could enter the Hiring Board. You know, to make non-subbers aware that you cannot join an agency unless you're subbed.

If this idea is used, it will definatly clean up our recruitment methods. It's just that we need Jojo's idea to fit in, because I'm sure a lot of detectives are annoyed by the amount of young non-subbers entering and posting in the recruitment boards. And, of course, we shouldn't limit the Application Board to detectives that aren't in agencies.

I have a small suggestion: in the hiring thread, why not put a list of detectives, automatically generated, of the Director's and Officer's of the agency so that whoever would like to join could contact them? Call the field "Contacts." I mean, many detectives usually PM different members for interviews and questions. And then, why not put a field that says "Number of Detectives Required"? It doesn't neccessarily have to be automatically generated, but it wuld be best if the public knew how many detectives are needed for the agency?

Anyway, I'll be waiting to see what happens. Hopefully, we will get a more structured recruitment method.

R Anstett
R Anstett

Jan-29-2006 12:52

I like the idea of a form to fill out for the agency hiring board, but I would not like to see anything automatically filled in there.

Mojo moved from Delhi to London and we had hiring happening along that time. It would mean a new thread for every time an agency moves or changes anything rather than a simple thread for that agency overall.

I do like the idea of being restricted to only subscribers having access to those boards to post, but I think that others should be able to look at them so they have another incentive to subscribe.


Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn

Jan-29-2006 14:07

I think non subscribed players should be able to post. I'm not subbed YET, it will be maybe another week or two, but I've thought about joining an agency when I do and I'd like to be able to ask questions before hand.

Of course if each agency had it's own "page" on the forum, with details, maybe i wouldn't have to ask questions at all.

cfm
cfm
Nomad

Jan-29-2006 14:12

I have to agree that only subbed players should be able to post in the recruitment threads. Peter, if you have questions about agencies, you can always PM directors personally, or if they are general questions, post them in the newbie thread.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-29-2006 17:47

Maybe that before a non-subbed person visits the recruitment thread, or is able to post in it.....they are re-directed to a page that joining an agency requires a subscription if they still like the post to go live on the board or want to have it deleted.

I do think that non-subbed members should always have read access, no matter what. I think for some it would be a reason to subscribe when they see the recruitment board.

Still part of me thinks that someone who gets exited about hearing about agencies, carefully selecting an agency to join, to then find out that they need to sub to join.......is still the best marketing mechanism that we have pulling people over the line to sub.

The other part of me holds a pink neon sigh. lol

cfm
cfm
Nomad

Jan-29-2006 18:14

Exactly Jstkdn, they shouldn't be banned from reading, just posting. However we run into the problem again of those in agencies that don't have subscriptions, including some directors that won't be able to post either....

Maybe if the redirect page was IN flashing pink neon? :D

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