CoverCard is a new innovative job market tool for blue-collar workers, allowing workers to send a comprehensive application pack consisting of a resume, licenses, and tickets in a breeze.
Workers can showcase their tickets, licenses, and resumes in a neat presentation of their information, which helps them stand out in a crowded job market.
Job seekers can then share information with employers via email or tap the hidden job market with private messages on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Manufacturing and mining workers are suffering from the downturn in the job market, and workers are losing jobs.
The two key resource states, Western Australia and Queensland have ‘8 of the top 10 postcodes’ with the greatest proportion of home loan arrears.
Unfortunately, blue-collar workers account for a significant proportion of employment in those states, and this trend suggest that job opportunities for blue-collar workers are becoming evermore competitive.
For the last 10 years, Jon Gwynne, previously worked as a boilermaker felt that there must be a better way for workers that hold many licenses and tickets to apply for jobs and be redeployed.
Gwynne, created CoverCard along with co-founder Matt Tomlins to assist job seekers to find jobs.
Tomlins says, “We’re really driven to give workers a better deal from the job search and recruitment process than they currently receive – and save recruiters time.”
The service is completely free for workers to use and CoverCard makes money buy charging employers a flat fee to use their service.
Employers can save up to 90% from an employer’s candidature screening time and be matched with blue-collar workers who fit the necessary tickets and licenses.
CoverCard wants to enable Australia’s 3.8 million blue-collar workers get jobs fast and is growing at a rapid rate.