Byron M

An amazing idea, but its declined in recent years with poor commercial decisions

I've used Offerzen since it started, my second job in the industry was through them & I recall thinking how amazing it was, to have a talent advisor, to have companies apply to you, it was a model that was unique & truly special. I quickly became an evangelist for OZ & took them into each company I moved into, every time I needed to hire or needed an escape from a bad job, OZ was there for me...it was amazing, almost too good to be true had I not seen it work myself...turns out it wasn't too good to be true, it was too good to last - and heres where it all goes down hill - I'll also mention that I know the economy is in a downturn but USP is USP and if you sacrifice it you will go under even faster...nowadays, offerzen is glorified Pnet even going as far as having open job boards (a sign of the business trying to find a new passive model with less overhead), the talent advisors that cared are gone, Ive seen 3 of them leave due to the company changing their outlook on talent. Liba, my agent never even reached out in the week they had to say hey, support request sit read & never rep**** to, the application is losing all its big name employers, as an employer, they only really move around revenue, not talent & honestly while OZ was once the keepers of some of the best local talent around, its now become a marketplace of mundane CVs and people that will never get hired on what was looked at as an A-performer platform, it gave us all assured employees that we knew could do the job, now we are lucky to find a top candidate on their site. So after using them since they started, at 5 companies as an employer and as an job seeker to get those 5 roles, I can look back & say thank you Offerzen for jumpstarting so much of my career, Im so saddened that you'll no longer be that platform for others but if you ever want to fix it let me know & Im there, it's a product & offering with SO much potential tied up behind leadership that needs to dream bigger & take a risk on something that will actually move the needle back into the green, because OZ right now you guys are in the red, on track to become just another job board, moving further & further away from the Otta model that you should be looking at.