To help IT job seekers to search for jobs conveniently while on the move, the IT Job Board, a prominent IT job website in the UK, has launched an iPhone application for IT job search.
The unique job search application can also be used on the iPod Touch.
After one year of activity in the Romanian market, CareerBuilder, world’s largest online job site, still aims at knocking off eJobs and BestJobs from their top spots, in an online recruitment market evaluated at ten million euros in 2008. However, the economic crisis and massive job shedding have pared job sites’ business over the last 12 months.
London, UK -- Most people’s homes are filled with clutter and unwanted items, you’ll probably never use them and having the extra space would be fantastic, but what do you do with these things? Chances are, you don’t want to throw them away, since they do have some value, but at the same time most people don’t have the energy to spend hours selling their unwanted goods. Seeing this problem, the team behind Photo Ads decided to tackle it head on, by providing a free, simple, and fast way of selling things online.
Despite Severn Recruitment Solutions making the first job placement using The Sun’s new jobsite recruiters have had mixed fortunes using the site.
The Sun’s employment campaign.
Online ad sales staff must think they can’t give away recruitment ads at the moment—so no real surprises that Sun Online is giving away ad spots for out-of-work readers to advertise themselves to prospective employers, through the site’s Madgex-powered jobs board. The Sun is painting itself as a champion of the (not currently) working man and the free ads tie in with its populist Get Britain Working campaign, launched as the UK hits a 14-year unemployment high of 2.44 million.
Interesting data from Hitwise indicates that content-driven websites get a whole lot more traffic than transactional-based ones. To put a number on it, that would be 73% more.
Robin Goad of Hitwise shares the following graph comparing sites in the Shopping and Classifieds, Business and Finance, Travel, Entertainment, Computes and Internet -Social networking and Forums, News and Media, and Lifestyle categories.
Farmers Weekly Interactive has launched a new e-classifieds service.
The launch marks yet another key step in the development of the site which recently won Business Website of the Year at the Periodicals Publishers Association - the UK's magazine and website "Oscars".
Cash-strapped Brits are looking to make some extra money and bargain hunters hope to pick up goods at a knock-down price. In the first half of 2009, the number of car boot sales across the UK that have been advertised on classifieds website, VivaStreet.co.uk, increased by 78 per cent compared to the same period in 2008; meanwhile, in the second quarter of 2009, generally a popular time for car boot sales as people spring clean, the number of ads compared to last year has almost doubled.
Consisting of some of the UK’s largest websites such as MailOnline, Northcliffe, The Independent, Metro and Motors, Jobsite can now offer recruiters the opportunity to take their brand or vacancies to relevant jobseekers across these platforms.
Jobsite.co.uk has agreed a deal with Portsmouth Football Club to be the Premier League club’s new shirt sponsor for an undisclosed fee.
The online recruitment website replaces printing company OKI as primary sponsor from the start of the next season.
Boris Johnson today urged students not to forsake their degrees despite the bleak outlook for graduates entering the jobs market.
Speaking at the launch of a website designed to help graduates find work in the capital, the mayor of London said it was vital undergraduates held their nerve and remained in full-time study.
Newspaper publisher Johnston Press has teamed up with a rival company to run its online recruitment platform.
Jobsite.co.uk, owned by Associated Northcliffe Digital, a sister company of local newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media Ltd, will power the Johnston Press 'JobsToday' recruitment portals across JP's 300+ websites in England, Scotland and Ireland.
Advertising revenue at the regional UK newspaper publisher Newsquest fell 36.9% year on year in the second quarter.
But Newsquest, which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and the Scottish national newspaper the Herald, said that June was its strongest month since the ad slump took hold.
British mobile phone content provider Teimlo is hiring a marketer, but it's only taking applications by text, reports Reuters. So you'd have to sell yourself in 160 characters or less.
After a great success in France and Belgium, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs is now available in the UK. With a new interface and an improved algorithm, JobiJoba aims at providing the best search experience for job seekers.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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