THE days of the handwritten "work wanted" note at the local farm store may be over, with the launch of Australia's first dairy employment website.

Relief milkers, farm hands and even sharefarmers can now use the Find a Milker website to advertise their services to dairy farmers across the nation.

Findamilker director Matt Gannon, who hails from a dairy farming family at Tinamba in Gippsland, said the website would fill an urgent need in the dairy industry to match job seekers with employers.

The idea for the online job board grew out of necessity.

"A friend of mine said to me, he was coming up to Melbourne for the weekend, (and) that he was having trouble finding a relief milker," Mr Gannon said.

"I did some research and there was a real easy solution."

Last week, 35 people looking for work had registered on the site, as well as 12 farmers seeking employees.

Mr Gannon said those searching for work could register for free, however, it would cost employers $432 a year.

This subscription would include unlimited use of the site.

But, as every dairy farmer knows, finding staff is just one step to securing reliable employees.

To overcome this problem, Mr Gannon has included a review system where farmers or employees could post comments on the website.

An option to rate job traits such as ability and punctuality is also available.

Mr Gannon said the review section of the website would be monitored.

By providing links to popular social networking sites Twitter and Facebook through his website, the 29-year-old hopes to appeal to the demographic of 15 to 18 year olds searching for after-school work.

Mr Gannon said he had developed online video tutorials including instructions on how to use the site.

While Findamilker was not the first website Mr Gannon has created, he said it took six months to develop and his focus now would be on improving it over the next four months.