Update.

Over the last week I have continued to do press and media interviews in Brandon, Belleville, and Kingston. The media continue to show an interest in what we are doing, and that has been a welcome surprise.

I have also been working on an information package that we will be sending to all the reserve units across Canada. The hardest part of our mission has been getting reservists to sign up for the service. Employers for the most part have been very interested in posting jobs to attract reservists to their companies. The problem is that we can't actively promote the service to many employers without a sufficient pool of reservists to take the jobs. We are at a Chicken or Egg situation that is slowing down our progress. If you are a reservist who has been putting off signing up for the service because you want to see what happens, I recommend that you take the initiative and receive the benefit of being one of the early users.

In case you don't see why using civiside benefits you, here are a few reasons:

1. Position your military experience as a competitive advantage versus your civilian peers. Employers posting jobs on civiside consider military experience to be a competitive advantage versus the other indirect work experiences of your civilian peers.

2. Employers posting jobs on civiside have signed a statement of support for reservists working for them. This means, if you decide to stay in the reserves you will have an employer who won't refuse time of for training requests, or make you use your annual vacation instead of accommodating your military service.

3. Civiside is designed to do the job searching for you. All you need to do is sign up with an email, password, and your educational credentials. Civiside will then automatically inform you whenever a job is posted that matches your credentials. No need to browse, or even return to the site, until you are matched with a job that you want to apply for.

I hope that the benefits of civiside are now clear. I look forward to continuing the iteration of the service so that every reservist that wants a job with a reserve-friendly employer gets one.