- NovaUCD company provides flexibility to today’s jobs market

Flexitimers.com, a totally new concept in the job recruitment market was launched today. Flexitimers.com was established to address the needs of professional people who want to work flexibly and employers who wish to recruit staff with experience and skills but not on a permanent basis.

Flexitimers.com which is located at NovaUCD, was established in 2007 by two female entrepreneurs, Dervla Cunningham and Joy Redmond, who saw a niche in the market which they needed themselves.

Joy Redmond and Dervla Cunningham, co-founders, Flexitimer.com

According to Dervla Cunningham, “Until now the recruitment industry has ignored professionals who want to do something different than the usual nine-to-five, five-days-a-week job.”

Flexitimers.com caters for all professionals for whom the usual 9-5, 5 days a week is not what they want. Examples include professionals who want classic part-time employment, or freelancers who prefer to work on a project or contract basis, or mothers who wish to keep their careers alive while raising a family. Also included are retired individuals who wish to continue to exploit their experience and expertise or professionals who are just looking to supplement their income.

Unlike other jobs boards on the market, Flexitimers.com’s unique selling point is its matching technology which matches professionals seeking flexible positions with employers offering flexible work. “Flexitimers.com is about matching on skills and experience in today’s changing marketplace”, Cunningham added.

Professionals can register on the website for no charge, upload their profiles, set their ‘flexibility’ and receive emails of flexible positions which match their requirements or they can browse the database and apply directly for advertised positions and projects. At the same time employers pay a nominal fee to post a position or project on the website. Flexitimers.com is simple to use and allows the recruiter to screen, shortlist and contact candidates directly.

Dervla Cunningham is a founder of two previous start-up companies, Zartis.com and Arekibo Communications. She co-founded Zartis, an ebusiness services company in 1998 which was subsequently sold for Irish £18 million to Boston-based Breakaway Solutions. In 2000 she co-founded Arekibo Communications, a web design and internet consultancy company where she managed and sold a large number of web projects in both the public and private sector. She left Arekibo in 2007 to co-found Flexitimers.com.

Joy Redmond was until recently a full-time lecturer in ebusiness, research and marketing in the Dublin Institute of Technology and was Course Director of the Masters Degree in Business and Entrepreneurship. She has been a market researcher for many blue chip companies including Bank of Ireland, eircom and NTL. She was Marketing Director of newmedia.ie and the online marketing manager of ingredientsnet.com.

ENDS

6 October 2008

For further information contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, e-mail: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie, tel: (01) 716 3712.

Editors Notes

Flexitimers.com specialises in connecting and matching time-flexible positions posted by employers with professional staff seeking flexible work. Flexitimers.com was established in 2007 by Dervla Cunningham and Joy Redmond.

NovaUCD is University College Dublin’s €11 million Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre. NovaUCD has been funded through a unique public-private partnership that includes AIB Bank, Arthur Cox, Deloitte, Enterprise Ireland, Ericsson, Goodbody Stockbrokers, UCD and Xilinx.