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MissTriggs · 16/05/2015 13:14

Flowers

Awesome plan!

JustineMumsnet · 18/05/2015 11:16

@magimedi

Brilliant idea - are you vetting them for true family friendliness, MNHQ??

Hey magimedi - no we aren't actively vetting the jobs but we are actively encouraging employers to post them on site only if consider themselves family friendly employers. The idea is to nugde family-friendliness onto the agenda and to get firms to be out and proud about often quite arcane internal policies. Obviously there may be instances when companies don't live up to the billing in which case we'd expect to hear about it and challenge the employer.

JustineMumsnet · 18/05/2015 11:16

@FruChristerOla

Ah, I see, the Jobs section on the blue bar (as opposed to MNHQ's We're Hiring)?

Is it new?

Grin

Yes brand new - please let us know what you think!

JustineMumsnet · 18/05/2015 11:40

@CultureSucksDownWords

The salaries quoted must be wrong, there are ordinary classroom teaching jobs quoting over 100,000 GBP per year!

Blimey - we'll have a look - txs

RowanMumsnet · 19/05/2015 17:14

Hello

Sorry about the, er, slightly optimistic salary for the teaching job. It looks like a teething problem with the way some recruiters are uploading ads - we're working with them to sort this out.

CamillaMumsnet · 26/05/2015 10:47

Hi folks,
Thanks for the feedback.

We do agree that there aren’t enough part-time and flexible jobs on the site at the moment but there are actually more than are appearing on search - we’ve got a technical issue with regards to tagging things as part-time and flexible which we are working on right now - and hopefully will be fixed soon.

Obviously not all jobs can be part-time or flexible hours and until there’s a sea change in employment practices there will probably always be more full-time jobs on MNJ. However, there’s more to being family friendly than just flexible working and we want to encourage companies to shout about their family friendly policies - it could mean gold plated maternity packages, help with childcare costs, leading the way with training when making the leap back into work after a career break or flexibility around school holidays. Some companies want to actively attract more women into under-represented sectors like technology or engineering and offer good incentives as a result.
The good news is lots of great companies have contacted us since the launch and we’re working on contacting more to offer more choice. We’ll keep you updated about new companies who join up. Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that…

CamillaMumsnet · 09/06/2015 07:58

Hello,

Sorry that we missed your tweets. If you ever need to contact us then the best way is an email to [email protected] and we'll come back to you as quickly as possible.

We are taking jobs from other sites at the moment as we're just getting started and wanted to give as much choice as we could at the beginning - over time we expect external jobs to become less and less part of the mix. Likewise we very much hope that there are more jobs added to your category soon.

Like you we very much want the site to be stuffed with flexi or part-time positions, but it's early days as yet and we're still building our roster of employers. While we do know that flexi and part-time are big factors in family friendliness we also think that there are other things employers can do to make jobs family friendly.

All that said, it does sound as though your experience wasn't great and we're sorry about that. We promise you we will get better - it's a work in progress to make sure that the jobs on the site truly do offer some aspects of family-friendliness and all feedback like this is genuinely useful, so thanks very much for adding yours.

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