Online Recruitment News & Research Archive 2009

An archive of online recruitment, job board and advertising news and research from the online recruitment industry.

 

s1jobs records busiest ever Autumn period

s1jobs has hailed the success of its latest advertising campaign after the site recorded its busiest ever autumn period. The 'Love your job' adverts, which featured Scottish stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill and ran throughout September and October, helped deliver an 8% increase in traffic, or around 80,000 extra site visits... read more

 

rtmjobs to keep free online content: a rail good job

Whilst many websites are opting to charge users to view editorial content, rtmjobs.com has decided to buck the trend by keeping all of its editorial content free to use (11 December 09) ...read more

 

CV-Library first to deliver ABCe audit of CV Registrations

The first ever CV Registration audit in the UK industry has been undertaken by leading UK independent job site CV-Library (1 December 2009) ...read more

 

Jobsite returns to television in January

Jobsite has announced that their award winning adverts, starring Max Beesley, will be returning to TV from the 4th January 2010 (1 December 2009) ...read more

 

Oilcareers.com re-brands

Market leading oil and gas jobs board, OilCareers.com, has been re-branded. Featuring a new logo, which is the first in a series of planned developments for the successful site (1 December 2009) ...read more

 

Workingmums showcases Citi Group flexible working

Leading financial firm Citi Group employers has been named a Top Employer by www.workingmums.co.uk, the UK site for female-focused employment (19 November 2009) ...read more

 

Keys to job board success for employers

We have published research employer use of job boards. As simple and straightforward as job boards are, however, too many employers are still failing to use job boards effectively (12 November 2009) ...read more

 

guardianjobs.co.uk scores NORA hat-trick

For the third year running, guardianjobs.co.uk has scooped the National Online Recruitment Award (NORA) for Best Online Recruitment Section by a Consumer Publication (12 November 2009) ...read more

 

Top-consultant.com online recruitment training

Top-consultant are running their free seminar on how to get the most out of online advertising (12 November 2009) ...read more

 

Leisurejobs to offer on and off-line recruitment

Leisurejobs.com the specialist job board for the leisure industry has announced its merger with the consultant led activities of sister company SRG (Sportsweb Recruitment Group) to form a recruitment offering that integrates a powerful combination of on and off-line recruitment solutions to the Health and Leisure Industry (11 November 2009) ...read more

 

Changeboard launches new job-board publishing model

Changeboard, the specialist HR, recruitment & training job board, has developed an innovative user-generated content platform to integrate with its jobs board ...read more

 

Jobsite.co.uk offers charities free volunteering ads

Jobsite have announced a new initiative to offer free advertising to voluntary organisations. The move will allow charities and volunteer vacancies to be posted free of charge on Jobsite (4 November 2009) ...read more

 

Workingmums.co.uk launches top employers platform

Workingmums.co.uk has just launched a new Top Employers platform with the aim of showcasing organisations who fit its family-friendly criteria ...read more

 

RecruitRank Award 2009 Finalists Announced

Jobsite have announed the finalists for the RecruitRank Awards 2009. The RecruitRank Awards are the only awards in the industry where finalists and winners are chosen by feedback from candidates (28 October 2009) ...read more  

 

CV-Library celebrates hitting two million CVs

CV-Library, one of the UK's fastest growing job sites, has announced that it now has two million live CVs registered in its online database (28 October 2009) ...read more

 

CareersinAudit expands into tax jobs

 CareersinAudit.com has announced that it will be hosting Tax jobs in addition to its main specialist sectors of Audit, Risk Management and Compliance (26 October 2009) ...read more

 

S1jobs.com ties up with myjobscotland

S1jobs.com has signed an agreement with myjobscotland (Scotland's local government jobs portal), to carry hundreds of local government vacancies on S1Jobs.com as well (14 October) ...read more

 

FE Careers launches FE Community Social Networking site

Whatjobsite partner site FE Careers, and FE News have launched  a new social networking site for the Further Education, Skills and Employability sectors (2 October 2009) ...read more

 

Flexi-time is top of working mum’s agenda

The economic recession has not dented women's desire for flexible working, with almost all working mums rating flexible working as "very important" to them ...read more

 

s1jobs.com TV advertising campaign

s1jobs.com has launched a new advertising campaign showcasing the talents of Scottish cycling sensation Danny MacAskill (11 September 2009) ...read more

 

GrocerJobs goes a-Twitter

Whatjobsite partner site GrocerJobs is now on Twitter. Whether you are recruiting or looking for a job you can now follow GrocerJobs on the popular social network (03 September 2009) ...read more

 

Jobsite debunks recession urban myths

While redundancy announcements dominate the headlines, Jobsite have published a report that reveals some of the myths that candidates believe — and the reality (19 August 2009) ...read more

 

CWJobs - Fantasy Football League

After a successful season last year, CWJobs has decided to run their Fantasy Football league exclusive to the IT recruitment industry again for the 2009/2010 football season (4 August 2009) ...read more

 

Jobsite launch new products to increase recruiters' reach to candidates

Whatjobsite partner site Jobsite.co.uk has announced the launch of a new product which enables their clients to have extensive reach to their target audience through advertising across the A&N Media/digital portfolio (28 July 2009) ...read more

 

Jobsite.co.uk sign as main sponsor of Premier League Portsmouth FC

Exciting news from the whatjobsite partner site Jobsite.co.uk who have announced that they have signed as the main club sponsor of Portsmouth Football Club (28 July 2009) ...read more

 

WorkingMums: Updated flexible working guide for employers

WorkingMums.co.uk offers a detailed guide to the issues and considerations for an employer in implementing a flexible working environment in their company (6 July 2009) ...read more

 

rtmjobs.com: Right time, right place

Finding the perfect candidate for a vacancy can be a complicated and expensive affair, but not if you're looking in the right places," says Roy C Rowlands of rtmjobs.com (6 July 2009)... read more

 

Workingmums.co.uk - Hertfordshire County Council talks about flexible working

The Team at WorkingMums.co.uk talk to Hertfordshire County Council about flexible working in the public sector (22 June 2009)... read more

 

S1jobs.com - wins another online recruitment award

Whatjobsite partner site s1jobs.com won the Online Excellence Award at the recent Marketing Society Star Award (2nd June 2009)... read more

 

Working Mums - Flexible workers can grow with a business

Flexible working could be a match made in heaven for small but ambitious companies because it allows staff to grow with the business says WorkingMums.co.uk (1 June 2009)... read more

 

JustEngineers.net wins Best Job Board at the Recruiter Awards 2009

JobsGroup.net, operator of JustEngineers.net and JustConstruction.net, is celebrating JustEngineers.net recent win of the title Best Job Board at the prestigious Recruiter Awards for Excellence... read more

 

Careers in Audit.com April 2009 audit recruitment market update

Maxwell Williamson of Careers in Audit, share his latest views on the audit recruitment market (5 May 2009)... read more

 

Totaljobs.com is announced Hitwise Number 1 commercial recruitment website for 2008

The Hitwise awards celebrate the most successful UK websites across more than 50 key selected industries. The awards are based on the market share of visits a website has received throughout 2008... read more

 

April advertising offers from whatjobsite job board partner sites

A round up of advertising offers and deals from approved sites on whatjobsite.com (3 April 2009)... read more

 

Workingmums.co.uk talk to Patricia Hewitt MP about flexible working

Patricia Hewitt is Labour MP for Leicester West. WorkingMums put some key questions on the future of flexible working to her (3 April 2009)... read more

 

The Onrec.com Online Recruitment Awards 2009

The Onrec.com Awards were held recently in London. The annual awards celebrate the success, growth, innovation and achievements within the UK online recruitment industry (3 April 2009)... read more 

 

Careers in Audit - Audit recruitment market update

CareersinAudit, the specialist audit recruitment website, reviews the state of the audit recruitment market (25 March 2009)... read more

 

FECareers.co.uk launches its CV database

It has been announced this week that FE Careers have launched their CV database. The FE Careers CV database is being offered as an enhancement to advertising campaigns (17 March 2009)... read more

 

NORAS results puts S1jobs top of the charts in Scotland

The recently published results of the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS 2009) indicate that whatjobsite partner site s1jobs.com now attracts over three times more Scottish job seekers than its nearest competitors in the NORAS survey (1 March 2009)... read more

 

FECareers.co.uk is finalist in two Online Recruitment Awards

The whatjobsite partner site FE Careers is finalist in two award categories in the 2009 Online Recruitment Awards. FE Careers is up for the Best Public Sector Recruitment Site Award and Innovative Online Marketing Award (1 March 2009)... read more

 

FEnews.co.uk to cover the World Skills Competition in Calgary Canada

FEnews.co.uk, the Further Education and the Skills Sector news site from FE Careers, has been asked by the UK Skills team to cover this year's World Skills Competition in Calgary Canada. The World Skills Competition is often known as the Skills Olympics. Countries from all over the world send teams to compete against each other (1 March 2009)... read more

 

s1jobs.com job board ABCe audited traffic reaches a new high

s1jobs, the whatjobsite.com approved job board for jobs in Scotland, has smashed its previous ABCe audit record. The latest audit of s1jobs.com has put the number of unique users of the site at 517,533 in January (16 February 2009)... read more

 

Careers in Audit - Nominated for ONREC & WEBlife awards

CareersinAudit.com, the specialist job board and community for auditors has been nominated for the 'Best Online Marketing Campaign Award' in the niche job board category for this year's Online Recruitment (Onrec) Awards (2 February 2009)... read more

 

Award nomination for CV-Library

Whatjobsite.com partner site CV-Library has been nominated for the 'Innovative Online Marketing Strategy Award' category in the 2009 ONREC Awards (21 January 2009)... read more

 

S1jobs.com - job board traffic reaches a new high

Scotland’s leading recruitment site, s1jobs.com recently recorded its busiest ever day this week, receiving over 50,000 visits in one day (8 January 2009)... read more

 

Monster - site upgrade for employers

Monster.co.uk and Monster.ie will shortly make several enhancements to their sites which will make a significant difference to the employer advertiser experience (6 January 2009)... read more

 

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