The Trud internet portal of the State Employment Service of Ukraine, developed by Softline JSC specialists, took third place in the "Social Internet Advertising" category at the 4th National Festival of Social Advertising.
The Trud portal (www.trud.gov.ua) has been operating since September 2007 as an alternative to commercial job search and recruitment portals. It publishes verified information on legal employment opportunities, and all of its services are free of charge for users.
The judges named the following among the main criteria that earned the site its bronze:
· daily information updates and convenient search services. As a result, the popularity of the resource keeps growing: over two years it has been visited by more than 2 million users;
· unique online services. For example, job seekers can create their own CV on the site, subscribe to receive new job offers by email, and take tests to check their inclinations and aptitudes when choosing a profession and career path;
· opportunities for employers to search for staff, including through extended CVs containing job seekers' contact details, to register vacancies directly on the portal and to receive new job seekers' CVs by email;
· feedback from users through the portal: public opinion on topical labour issues is monitored;
· the "Unemployment Benefit Calculator" introduced this year, which helps estimate how much state benefit one can expect in each individual case.
Softline JSC has been operating in the IT market since 1995 and specialises in developing highly complex software products. It is a partner of global brands: IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Teradata, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Oracle. Softline specialists have developed and implemented 40 modern software products and specialised solutions and have completed more than 500 successful projects in finance, telecommunications and communications, energy, utilities, public administration, industry and transport.