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Print sector job board oZZle becomes first Whatjobsite Approved Website 2012

WJS — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:22:53 +0000

oZZle.co.uk is a very popular job board for the print and packaging sector. The site is well established and is a leading site in its sector. The site carries a good and varied inventory of jobs coming from both recruitment consultants and those all important employers.

Whatjobsite begins the audits for the Approved Website Award 2012

WJS — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:28:27 +0000

Where does the time go? It seems like only last week that we were signing off on the images for the Whatjobsite Approved Website Awards 2011. And now it's that time again. We've just off the new image for whatjobsite approved website and are beginning the process of approving websites for the Whatjobsite Approved Website Award.

How many job boards to advertise a job ad?

WJS — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:03:49 +0000

We ran a survey on whatjobsite in the month of September asking our users how many job boards they used to advertise a job. The answers were intriguing. 17.5% of recruiters said they placed their faith in just one job board. Over 55% of our users said that they posted their job ads on two or ...read more>>

QR codes and recruiting

WJS — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:49:32 +0000

There has been a lot of interest in recent times around the issue of QR codes and recruiting. Whatjobsite recently completed a short introductory guide on the matter imaginatively entitled “An introduction to QR codes.” The guide seeks to offer simple and straightforward advice to this new piece tool for the online marketer. Interestingly, however, ...read more>>

Twitter, twattle, twaddle

WJS — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:39:54 +0000

Are Twitter and Facebook a waste of time for recruiters? Is social media for recruitment just twaddle? Well, maybe, if a recent opinion piece by Mark Ritson in Marketing Week entitled ‘The Seven Dumbest Sins of Social Media‘ is anything to go by. In the column Ritson debunks some of the common claims of social media ...read more>>

Beknown from monster

WJS — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:33:51 +0000

The recent launch of BeKnown from Monster is an intriguing development in the online recruitment sector. In our view it is the first truly innovative engagement with social media by any job board. Up til this point, those sites that have been engaging with social media were doing so in a rather limited fashion. Social ...read more>>

Killing the careers site

WJS — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:16:20 +0000

There has been a great deal of debate about a recent posting by Dr John Sullivan, RIP – announcing the death of the corporate careers website. In the article, Sullivan argues that the typical careers website is now out of date and, worse, pointless. There are a number of reasons Sullivan believes this but significant ...read more>>

Job Board Survey Participants Needed!

WJS — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:00:17 +0000

It’s that time of the year. It’s whatjobsite survey time. And, if you work for a job boards, we need your help. Every year whatjobsite runs a survey of job boards in the UK in an attempt to find out what is going on in the market. The survey tries to find out what the ...read more>>