FAQ

Having logged on, you cannot locate your JANZZ using the JANZZ Finder. The reason is that the system prevents a JANZZ from matching itself. So a logged-on user’s own JANZZs are not displayed. But if you log off, you can search for and retrieve your JANZZ via the JANZZ Finder. 

An ontology is a representation of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain. In relation to computer science, data processing and the Internet, the challenge lies in digitalizing knowledge and making it exchangeable between application programmes and services. An ontology creates a network of logical relations from a series of data and represents a multi-dimensional link between the data to be processed. This means, for example, that a “woodworker” is also recognizable as a “carpenter” or “cabinet maker”. JANZZ.jobs is the first platform to be able to arrange and link the intersections of various levels. For any given occupation/profession, it intelligently connects and matches not only the activity, but the specialization and function.

If a contact has been terminated or withdrawn for longer than 10 days, it will automatically be archived, and cease to be visible. If you suddenly can't see a contact anymore, your counterpart may have placed the contacts on hold, or archived them. In either case, you will receive a message if your counterpart terminates a contact in any way.

If you want to contact a JANZZ, go to the «My JANZZs» section. If you click on the Top Matches icon on the right hand side of each JANZZ, you will get an overview over all potential matches. Click on one of the matches in order to see the «public view» of that JANZZ. If the displayed details interest you, click “Initiate contact”. Upon initiating contact, the JANZZ is moved to the «My contacts» section on your home page and a contact request is being prepared. If you wish, you can write a message to the other JANZZ now. Write a brief message and request disclosure of the profile in stages. Conversely, you may receive a message because someone wants to contact you. You also receive a notification email whenever a new contact, request for disclosure or message is received.

In JANZZ.jobs, the occupation/profession field denotes an occupation or a job. So if you enter details such as “management of a department”, the system is no longer able to match this term with another JANZZ. No match is possible either, for example, if you enter an occupation as “consultant, teacher and electrical fitter”, even if you are able to do all three jobs. The reason is that an electrical fitter’s occupation mostly has very little to do with that of a teacher. Hence the semantic matching system is unable to classify this combination of words. If you have more than one occupation, you must compile one JANZZ for each occupation – which will substantially increase your Match Factor for all sectors.

You can use JANZZ.jobs as a company, organization, headhunter, association, NGO, freelancer, etc., or as a private individual. Subscriptions vary in duration and the number of profiles and JANZZs available at a given time. If you’re under 25, you can use JANZZ.jobs free of charge with a Young Talent subscription. Once you have paid your chosen subscription, you incur no further charges for using JANZZ.jobs. You can choose from the following subscriptions:

If you are a member of JANZZ.jobs and are logged into your account, you can perform a normal search or you can use one of your JANZZs to search for matching opportunities outside of the platform. You can thereby access millions of published, current jobs around the world, in real time and in all available languages. The quality of these external hits, which are marked with a “J”, can vary, and is not influenced by JANZZ.jobs. This also means that not all criteria can be matched in the same quality as occurs between the JANZZs on the platform. However, the external search allows you to access millions of current vacancies based on the criteria selected by you in your JANZZs.

If a contact results in a job, assignment or contract, you can click on the “JANZZed!” menu point to indicate that a successful conclusion has been reached. This contact will then be displayed as “JANZZed!” with your other archived JANZZs and with your regular JANZZ updates. This makes it easier to find your most successful JANZZs later, e.g. for detailed reporting within your company.

A JANZZ offers comprehensive opportunity to describe your search criteria or offer in detail. Before you start, consider which criteria you really require, and which you have more flexibility on. If you are looking for a job as a babysitter, you will likely need to complete fewer fields than as a dermatology specialist. 

As a special feature of JANZZ.jobs, you have the possibility to clone the JANZZ of another user. In order to use someone else's JANZZ as template, click on the correpsonding button in the JANZZ preview. 

1. Enter your JANZZ title
This is the title your JANZZ is published under. Try to keep it short, simple and clear – for example, “landscape gardener”. You will have plenty of opportunity to describe your activity or required occupation/profession or function in more detail later on. This title is onlyconsidered for information purposes and does not factor into the matching process. 

2. Social Tags
As a company, you can mark your job offers with social tags. By activating these social tags, you can indicate that your JANZZ is suitable for people with special needs or disabilities, or for experienced people aged 50+.

3. Set authorizations

When setting up a JANZZ, you decide whether to be the sole editor or to share the JANZZ with other users on your subscription. Whichever you choose, you can modify these authorizations at any time. This means that you can also share a JANZZ with someone for a limited time – while you are on holiday, for example.

4. Select a language for JANZZ.jobs
As a general rule, the language you enter here will be the primary language you will use to communicate with JANZZ.jobs. However, you can write in English within your JANZZs, and still display content in German, as an example. This makes sense if you are searching internationally, or across language divides.

5. Enter an occupation/profession
Do not enter job titles that are too specialized, e.g. “master gardener” or “language school advisor”; they may only be known to you, or only used in your company. Try to follow the prompted relevant fields in JANZZ.jobs and add your own particulars – these fields allow you to fine-tune the information you give on your knowledge and occupation/profession without compromising your search. Complete all of the fields in detail to improve your chances of a perfect match.

• For example, “doctor” is a too vague – a doctorate is after all awarded in everything from veterinary medicine, to cellular microbiology. Make it clear whether you are a doctor of medicine or a veterinarian.
• State your discipline and/or specialisation – the system will help you complete these fields as you go. You can also select your level of specialization, and add some information in greater depth.
• Try making a JANZZ stating only the function, then try out the various options – It pays to be thorough and accurate.

6. Description
Describe what challenge you are looking for or offering. What characteristics are important to you in a job you are looking for, or in a vacancy you are seeking to fill? Examples: soft skills, motivation, significant personality traits, etc.

7. Availability
Here you can enter the date you are available from, or when you are free to take up a position, e.g. “immediately” or from 1 July 2012. Date ranges can also be entered, e.g. “from/to” for fixed-term appointments.

8. Type of contract
Here you can enter the basis on which you are offering/looking for a position or assistance, e.g. full-time, part-time, freelance, voluntary, mini/micro or odd job etc. The options are broad, and a drop-down field helps you to make your selection. If possible, enter several contract types – this greatly increases the probability of good matches.

9. Match Factor
Set a low Match Factor to start with. Keep in mind: the higher you set your Match Factor, the fewer people will see your JANZZ. Work with your experimental results, the more matches you receive, the more discriminating your Match Factor can be – this means you can set it higher. It is quite simple: the lower the Match Factor, the more matches you get; the higher the Match Factor, the fewer, though more exact the matches.

10. How much
If possible, do not quote fixed salary amounts here. Instead, work with bandwidths: “to/from”. This increases your chances of a match and you leave yourself room for negotiation.

11. Where, including radius
JANZZ.jobs uses radius to determine the area, measured from your location, you are willing to undertake activities. It is the same as the distance you commute to/from work. You can quote several places at the same time – the wider the radius, the greater your prospects of success. If you are offering a JANZZ at a specific location, you should enter 0 km.

12. Skills/competences
If you are a product manager in banking, you might enter “mortgages” here. If you are an advertising agency, you would register the specialist knowledge you are looking for here, such as “CI/CD”, “Web design”, etc. Describe which specialist knowledge you are looking for or can offer for this JANZZ. List everything you can do well. Be brief, accurate and insightful – but, at the same time, try to be precise and avoid unspecific descriptions such as simply “Apple”. This helps to round off the overall picture your counterpart will have of you and enables precise matching.

13. Soft skills
In contrast to “skills/competences”, in this area you should enter the most important soft skills that are relevant to the occupation/profession you are looking for or offering in this JANZZ. For example:

• Sense of responsibility/autonomy
• Self-confidence
• Motivation
• Conflict resolution and communication skills
• Assertiveness
• Empathy
• Ability to compromise
• Ability to take criticism
• Ambitious, hard-working
• etc.

14. Education/Qualifications
Enter all the education and further training you are seeking or offering here, including: education/qualifications and their levels, diplomas, certificates, courses completed, etc.

15. Experience
List the areas in which you have gained experience, or the experience you require for this JANZZ. In the first field, enter some brief but informative terms describing the experience sought or offered. In the drop-down menu of the second field, you can select the period of time. Please note: the duration of each position should be recorded individually; for example, if you have worked as a travel agent and branch manager for a total of 10 years, list the time periods separately: “7 years as a travel agent” and “3 years as a branch manager”.

Not only can you indicate in which industry you have gained an experience but you can also say whether you held project and/or budget and/or personnel responsibility during these periods of employment.

16. Responsibilities/Tasks/Duties
Describe the responsibilities, tasks and duties required or offered here. For example, would you like to manage people? Or does the activity offered comprise special duties, such as supervising apprentices?

17. Industries
Select the industries and sectors that you are willing to work in, or the industry or service sector in which your company is engaged. Possible examples are: financial services, medicine, sales, etc. If you have selected no specific sector, your JANZZ search will always cover all industries. Whenever possible, register multiple industries to enhance your chances of perfect matching.

18. Languages
List the language(s) you know, how well and in what form, or which language(s) you require for your JANZZ. A possible example is: English (mother tongue), German (fluent written and spoken).

19. Attach documents
In this area you can add the documents of your choice, taken from your own files to your JANZZ. It is most likely not necessary always attach all of your available documents to every single JANZZ. Decide what is reasonable and may take you further with this particular JANZZ. Act on the principle “as much as necessary, as little as possible”.

Yes, you can. Go to “My Archive”, > “Archived JANZZs” and select the relevant JANZZ. Then click “Restore JANZZ”. This creates and activates a copy of your archived JANZZ. At this point, you can either leave it unaltered, or edit it. Your original JANZZ will remain in the archive, so feel free to amend the name of the new JANZZ.

If you only enter a title for a JANZZ, you will not receive any matches. The main information which flows into the Match Factor is the occupation/profession. But other items such as education/qualifications, place of work, or experience influence the Match Factor. It is therefore important to complete these fields.

The number of JANZZs displayed for one subscription is the number of JANZZs you can publish simultaneously. So, in theory, you can compile an unlimited number of JANZZs, provided simply that the maximum permitted number is published at the same time.  

• If you know several languages, for example, do state this.
• Be thorough in your description of your skills and specialities.
• Do not quote your desired salary as a fixed sum, but rather, as a bandwidth.
• Another way of increasing your chances is to extend your set radius around from desired location.
• Compile a second, similar JANZZ, but with altered details. For example make one in every language you speak, if you are looking internationally. You will instantly see from the match results, which JANZZ is giving you greater chances or increasing your range.

The option of sharing JANZZs is simple to use. When creating a JANZZ, you have the choice of sharing it or being the sole administrator – just click on the appropriate box. Sharing a JANZZ grants the selected users the opportunity to view and process contacts. You can revert JANZZ sharing at any time, e.g. if you only need it for a limited period while absent on leave.

If you are a user, please refer to your subscription administrator. As an administrator or holder of a subscription, you can obtain help from our JANZZ.jobs Support Team.

Yes, as a private individual aged 50 or older you could or even should indicate this. In your profile, under the date of birth, you can additionally click a check-box, and the P or F tag of your Private or Freelance subscription will be marked with a ‘+’, for example, P+.

This ensures that your extensive experience is displayed openly on every JANZZ published by this profile, and that JANZZ.jobs users as well as potential matches can see, at first glance, that you are an individual with a wealth of long-standing experience. This may be especially important if someone is seeking a professional with profound knowledge and several matches are presented.

You may certainly uncheck the box and deactivate this setting and the “+” tag will no longer be visible.

Follow the instructions on the screen step by step. Select a suitable profile title and complete the fields as they come up; the system will guide you through the process. The "i" (for information) to the right of the input fields contains important notes on many fields – these are worth reading. Include as much information as possible in your profile to increase your chances of a perfect match with whatever you are seeking or offering. Depending on whether you are registered as a company or a private individual, a profile is comprised of varied information.

PERSON PROFILE

1. Profile title
This is the title of your JANZZ.jobs profile. Choose a clear, descriptive title that will be is easy to remember. This profile title will be visible to all your contacts.

2. Name
Please enter your full name here (first and last name).

3. Email address
Enter your email address here. You can enter any email address here that you can be reached at – enter as many as you like, these emails do not have to match your login email address.

4. Permission
Here you can set which of your account users is to have access to this profile.

5. Address
Please enter your full address.

6. Nationality
You are asked to disclose your citizenship(s) here. This information may be helpful in the search for a JANZZ or may also help you to be found if the work provider requires a specific nationality for a JANZZ (e.g. EU citizenship for a JANZZ in an EU Member State).

7. Level of education (ISCED-2011)
Choose your highest level of education completed.

8. Work permit
If you are searching for or offering a JANZZ outside your home country, please enter the type of work/residence permit you have. This may prove helpful when you are seeking a JANZZ or may also help you to be found if a work provider requires a specific residence permit (e.g. possession of a green card in the USA).

9. Marital status
Please state your marital status. This information is optional, but may be relevant in certain circumstances, e.g. if a work provider prefers married employees.

10. Date of birth
Please enter your date of birth – in some cases, this may be helpful for a JANZZ search or offer. One example is when an upper age limit of 30 applies to acceptance for a police training corps, or where a given minimum age is required for an occupation/profession.

11. Home town/place of birth
Please enter your home town or place of birth.

12. Driving licence
Enter the exact category(ies) of your driving licence here. If you hold several driving licences, please list them all. Example: you are looking for a JANZZ as a chauffeur; one of the licences listed might be exactly the right one for a JANZZ offer.

13. Further information
Please note all relevant information that you have not entered in the above fields, or cannot record in your JANZZs.

14. Awards and prizes
Include here any relevant prizes or awards that you have won or which have been awarded to you personally or to your operation.

15. Memberships and organisations
Enter all your significant memberships in organizations or associations as well as current or former functions etc.

16. Portrait picture
Boost your profile by adding a profile photo.

17. Telephone
Please enter your work, home and/or mobile phone numbers. Please always quote the number with international country code, e.g. +41 XX XXX XX XX for Switzerland.

18. Online information
Enter your website or blogs, information about your Twitter channel, your Facebook or LinkedIn page or other important online sources here – always with the complete URL.

19. Exclusion list
If you do not want to be contacted by certain email addresses, domains or top-level domains, you can enter them here.

COMPANY PROFILE

1. Profile title
This is the title of your JANZZ.jobs profile. Choose a clear, descriptive title that will be easy to remember. Keep in mind that your profile title is visible to your contacts and should therefore be descriptive.

2. Company name
This is the official name of your company. If you work for a large corporation, enter the name of the branch or division you work for. 

3. Contact name
Please give the full name (first and last name)  of the contact person in the company here.

4. Contact email address
These are the email address used to create a contact. There may be more than one at a given time on JANZZ.jobs, e.g. email addresses of different departments, competent persons or representative offices.

5. Authorization
You can administer an account as the sole controller, or grant authorizations to your users. You can also temporarily authorize a single user or your entire team to make amendments if, for example, you will have no Internet access for a given period.

6. Address
Enter your company’s full address here.

7. Department
This is the department within the company in which you are looking for or offering an occupation/profession.

8. Industries/sectors
This refers to all of the industry(ies) your company engages in – there may be more than one. Select all of the applicable designations from the drop-down list on JANZZ.jobs.

9. Size
Please enter your company's size (number of employees). This may be relevant to job seekers, depending on whether someone would rather work in larger or smaller organization.

10. Annual revenue
Enter your company's revenue here. This information is optional, but may be of interest to certain contacts.

11. Facts and figures
“Facts and figures” enables you to give a brief overview of your company. PDF files, Web links, etc., can be attached by using JANZZ's document management features.

12. Company logo

Here you have an opportunity to attach your company’s logo to this profile. Click on “Browse” to select the logo from your document management, where you uploaded it previously. In order to ensure that the logo is displayed correctly, we strongly recommend the file format .png. 

13. Telephone
Please enter the telephone number, plus any direct-dial extension or mobile phone numbers for your company here.

14. Online information
Please enter your company's website address or specific URL relevant to this JANZZ.

15. Exclusion list
If you do not want to be contacted by certain email addresses, domains or top-level domains, you can enter them here.

You can modify any of your email addresses in the "My profiles" section, in the respective profile. Here you can add additional email addresses and where appropriate, allocate selected email addresses to your JANZZs and contacts. When you make contact with another JANZZ.jobs user, your email address only becomes visible to them after being expressly authorized by you. In your profile, you can also decide whether or not you would like to make your email address visible to unregistered users.

Profile particulars are only as visible as you allow via your personal settings. As you near agreement with a contact (you have the “partial disclosure” and “full disclosure” options for this purpose), you can allow greater access to your profile. This enables you to personalize your settings on each JANZZ and for each of your contacts. You decide who sees what and when, according to your needs and the progress you are making with your contacts. You can adjust your individual contact clearance in your JANZZs under “disclosure settings”.

It is very easy to recommend JANZZjobs. As a registered JANZZ.jobs user, you will be rewarded with a free subscription renewal or an account credit for recommending a new user who successfully registers.

Procedure for private individuals and freelancers:
Recommend JANZZ.jobs to someone by email. If the person or company enters your JANZZ.jobs username (email address) in the designated field as their contact and successfully completes the new registration, your subscription is then automatically extended for a minimum of six months.*

Procedure for companies, organizations and headhunters:
Recommend JANZZ.jobs to a private individual by email. If the person enters your JANZZ.jobs username (email address) in the designated field as their contact and successfully completes the new registration, we then credit you, upon a subscription renewal, the equivalent value of the newly created subscription.**

Recommend JANZZ.jobs to a company, organization or headhunter by email. If your JANZZ.jobs username (email address) is entered in the designated field as their contact upon their successful new registration, we contact you and give you a credit of up to several hundred CHF/USD/EUR upon your subscription renewal. Please contact sales@janzz.jobs for more information.**

* The subscription can be extended for a maximum of 3 years, provided that the new subscriptions taken out are subject to a charge.
** You can benefit from this offer a maximum of 5 times within one year, with the amount of the credit depending on the subscription type taken out.

You cannot directly delete a profile. If you wish to change or remove a profile, you can overwrite or archive your profile at any time. After 24 months in the archive, any profile that has not been reactivated is automatically deleted.
 

So far, the conventional World Wide Web has relied on human interpretation. Web 3.0 now poses a challenge: it structures data that is not only machine-readable, but also machine-processable. To achieve this, the existing data must be interwoven – it must be possible to prepare data in its entirety and in the appropriate context. This is why Web 3.0 is also known as the semantic Web. JANZZ.jobs is the first platform ever implemented to apply Web 3.0, which has until now, not been available. Automatically sorting specific functions correctly, irrespective of language and location makes the matching of supply and demand noticeably more efficient and accurate. It also saves time and energy.

“Matching”, means bringing “compatible” or “related characteristics” together – the higher the degree of similarity between a search and offer, the more ideal the match. High-quality matchmaking is a key feature of JANZZ.jobs to bring together what fits. JANZZ.jobs matches skills/competences, capabilities and competencies in terms of both occupation/profession and of specializations and functions. It checks these at several levels and brings them together to produce the best match – all in real time.

Under “My Documents“, you can upload these type of items under the “Diplomas and Certificates” Section.

If you only possess a hard-copy of a certificate or results-transcript, simply scan and then upload the document.