Who or what is 4everyone, and jobs4everyone?

On December 23^rd, 2011 we were proud to announce that jobs4everyone had gone live.

And it has been a long time coming, 4 years in the making!

Jobs4everyone is the first service released from the social media community organisation, 4everyone Limited, which has been developed to help local communities regenerate themselves.

The broader context of 4everyone is to provide a platform, that is a tool that local communities can use as a way of providing resources within themselves to help regenerate their own local economy.

Many local communities are suffering from high rates of unemployment and this is having a serious detrimental effect on these physical areas. However, the look and cosmetic degradation of these local communities is only the tip of the ice-berg.

When areas become deprived and the standards of living drop, stress levels on the people that live there rise.  This in-turn has a knock-on effect to families, friends, and wider networks.  Everyone ends up suffering.

Our aim at 4everyone is to see these local communities prospering; both physically in the condition of these areas, but more importantly in the relationships and lives of the people that live there.

Many of these smaller districts have a number of self-employed people and small independent businesses and services that once played a vital part in helping these areas to thrive.  Unfortunately though, over recent years we have been hit by recession and 'the credit crunch' and it has been these key components in community life that have been some of the hardest hit.

The result is the closure of local shops, pubs, community centres and a breakdown of relationships and services that once knitted these communities together.

Our vision is to provide a way for local communities to once again be thriving places with friendships and relationships bonded together by a strong sense of community spirit that runs through the core of everything that happens there.  

We want to provide a cost effective way for local traders to advertise their services with maximum exposure at a minimal cost.  We want to once again see people looking inside their own communities for services again rather than going out into other districts.

In doing so, money will be kept inside these local communities instead of being transported elsewhere.  If we can enable these local communities to retain their economies then we feel we're stepping in the right direction and starting build a foundation for what we want to achieve.

We know we have a long way to go until we reach this aim of ours but we fully believe in what we can achieve, and what these communities can achieve given the right tools to do so.

So the first step for us in helping to regenerate these local areas is to increase the rate of employment in them.  We know that there are jobs out there, but a large problem lies with the small businesses who have vacancies available simply cannot afford to publicise them.  A recent government report said that over 70% of vacancies currently go unadvertised!  An astounding amount!

Our role is to begin by providing an outlet for these local businesses to publicise available job opportunities at no charge, and then to present these vacancies to local residents looking for work.

If we can create one database of every available job vacancy and another database of every person looking for work then we can use the wonders of modern technology to marry the two together, and at the very least create a positive change in the rate of employment.

We know there are other free services available to advertise vacancies, such as the governments’ own resources, but the problem with public sector is that it doesn't move quickly enough and is always playing catch up due to government restrictions and bureaucracy higher up.  And today’s world moves much more quickly than that!

As a social enterprise our role is to not take over what other people are already doing, but enable others to carry out their services and roles with more efficiency for the benefit of everyone, not just ourselves.

I hope you stay with us on this journey, and we encourage any comments or feedback as we look to unite both people and services and provide well, just a simpler and better way of doing things.

To have a look at our website, please follow this link-> jobs vacancies in sheffield

Thanks

Rich