Nokia publishes JobLens application in the UK to help catalyse local employment market
Nokia today publishes its innovative JobLens application in the UK, a new app available exclusively for Nokia Lumia Windows Phones. The app enables job seekers to view many of the current 500,000 plus open job vacancies in the UK*, allowing you to filter them by company, by keyword, or by distance and salary range. Users can view vacancies on a map, or, on select Lumia devices, using augmented reality, it even let’s you identify people in your social networks who work at the hiring company. Powered by some of the biggest names in career services, JobLens can recommend opportunities in line with an individual’s qualifications and even enable them to create a CV and share it with prospective hiring managers. It can even go so far as to guide you to the interview via HERE Maps in addition to providing expected salary information and relevant local area demographics.
JobLens acts as a catalyst for the employment market as it lowers the barriers between job seekers and local vacancies. With JobLens running on select Lumia models, you can open the app and look through the camera lens to see nearby vacancies in your town or city, how far away they are, and information on the company offering the job. By leveraging Nokia’s industry-leading imaging capabilities together with its HERE Maps’ LiveSight technology, JobLens lets users capture more than their eyes can see.
Developed by Nokia and available now in the UK, US and Canada exclusively for Nokia Lumia Smartphones, JobLens includes UK employment, company and local area information from partners including Indeed, Twitter, PayScale and the Office for National Statistics. The app also taps into social networks including LinkedIn, Facebook and Windows Live to identify friends and contacts already working for a particular employer.
“JobLens redefines and simplifies how people look for new jobs by combining the power of some of the best brands in career services together with social networks and HERE Maps in one single app,” explains Bryan Biniak, VP & General Manager Global Partner & App Development, Nokia. “By making it easier for job seekers to find new opportunities we hope to give Nokia Lumia owners an advantage in today’s job market.”
JobLens’ innovative approach puts job seekers in control of their search for employment. For example, people who are interested in a particular type of role can set up custom search parameters that can be saved and pinned as a Live tile on their Start screen; the Live tile will then automatically update when new jobs that meet that search criteria are listed.
By empowering job seekers to see the jobs around them JobLens fundamentally changes the way people find local employment.
The app is available to download today: http://tiny.cc/JobLens
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
