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re: The Failure of a Job Board - Why?

Amanda Inglis — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:20:14 GMT

Dominic - you missed two very important regions for job seekers - jobs in swindon and Bracknell are missing

State of the OME Nation - Q1 2009

Making Online Recruitment Work — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:08:43 GMT

I wrote this piece back in October about state of the market/economy and OME. And i thought having just

re: Have i become immune to loss of data stories

Dominic Sumners — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:56:53 GMT

i agree entirely and advise friends collegaues relatives to do this. It just seems to happen so often that irrelevant of your personal security measures - others who hole our data dont take some care - and we are to a certain extent powerless

re: Have i become immune to loss of data stories

AwallafaShagba — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:33:08 GMT

It is a massive issue actually Dom. Our personal details are milling around on a lot of unscrupulous individuals hard drives - just waiting to be abused. It is true however that we have become certainly a little "immunde" from these stories but in fact we should all occasionally make sure passwords are changed and pin numbers jiggled.

re: LinkedIn

Dominic Sumners — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:05:06 GMT

i fear their biggest danger may be rec cons absolutely going through the site like a plague of locusts and then senior execs getting a lot of headhunt calls from resources. Will this create a backlash and see people taking their profiles down? Undoubtedly the down turn will see greater user activity though as it becomes a way to engage direct with employers/contacts in a way that make sthe candidate look proactive and up to speed.

Not sure about the Top10 Employment site list listed above - 2 out of those 3 would not be the first place i would direct friends or colleagues to. To be fair i have not even heard of www.realmatch.com - which either says negative things about my knowledge or negative things about their true market position

re: LinkedIn

John star — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:58:09 GMT

Linkedin was added to the About.com Top 10 Employment site list with 2 other sites but linkedin is still the only social netwoking site on the list. 3 newest job sites on top list are:

www.linkedin.com (professional networking)

www.indeed.com (aggregated job listings)

www.realmatch.com (matches you to the perfect job)

Good luck to all those searching for jobs.

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re: LinkedIn

Sean Goulart — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:37:57 GMT

I really like LinkedIn and they way they have rolled out the service. It is easy to use and very informative. A few things they need to watch out for:

- SPAM - there is an increasing amount of SPAM in the discussion groups as the moderators of many do not actually moderate

- Return rate - Many people I speak with go on LI, like it, but don't really get a call to action to return so they don't for long periods of time

They have great backing and are probably undervalued.

re: Broadbean acquired by owners of Jobsite

Simon Devitt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:00:11 GMT

Interesting I guess with both companies now owned by Associated one of the biggest jobsite owners now has some facinating data on how competitors are really delivering response to a large proportion of customers. They don't need NORAS or ABCe to give response figures for competitive sites or their customers they can see it all by looking at their own data. I suspect they have been very clever.

re: Bitching about Awards

Philip Smith — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:38:52 GMT

Well, Brandrepublicjobs.com has been shortlisted this year so, yes, NORA has got it right. Oh, perhaps I've just proved your point ...

Still, let's hope we're close to the stage.

re: The Failure of a Job Board - Why?

Dominic Sumners — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:58:10 GMT

yes teh market size of kerrang!jobs will be interesting. I kind of think tis local vs national niche vs general can sometimes massively miss the point. A national (in job board terms not newspaper) is merely a successful aggregator of local jobs and an aggregator of IT, Acc, Eng jobs. I am aware this is a gross oversimplification. But as we both know the "local" market represents 50%+ of total cash in rec adv market and the general boards need to make sure they have a strong foothold in it.

re: The Failure of a Job Board - Why?

Matthew Gerry — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:18:55 GMT

Agree with you Dominic. Radio advertising is very powerful but i'd be intrigued to know how this has translated to response (and if they are attempting to measure this) and how much of that push continues to be sustained through the broadcast channels.

Also looking forward to the impending launch of Kerrang! jobs. :-)

re: The Failure of a Job Board - Why?

Simon Devitt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:32:28 GMT

This is interesting with the progress Northcliffe and Jobsite are making with local sites and the increasing strength of good specialist sites. I had always assumed that the broadbased jobsites would have to push towards the local market because specialist sites would dominate the professional jobs market where applicants would move location for the right career opportunity.

Looks like it is more likely to be poor execution than the wrong direction.

Now Gannett has the controlling shareholding in Careerbuilder in the states and the biggest engagement of the fish4 shareholders through Newsquest. does this mean some interesting changes amongst the generalist jobsite brands coming up.

It seems to me Totaljobs has to tackle the local market it will be interesting to see how they do this now.

re: The Failure of a Job Board - Why?

Dominic Sumners — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:45:38 GMT

Hi Matthew

Have to declare an interest in that i know the people behind these launches even better than the TotalJobs people. I think that they are based around natural urban recruitment centres - initially Manchester, Preston but then sheffield, Newcastle etc. This is absolutely a positive. The radio stations involvement can give sense of relevance, community to the intended audience/users and a huge marketing push which is massively helpful. However i do not think radio is a great direct response generator for recruitment so the sites have to prosper as indvidual entities - distinct from the parent station and this has to happen quite fast. They also did not have much (any?) job board knowledge in the business but were astute enough to get that in - which if you compare to friendsreunited jobs and other flops has to be a good thing. What do you think?

re: The Failure of a Job Board - Why?

Matthew Gerry — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:49:03 GMT

Given point 1, i'd be interested to know your view on the prospects of the jobs sites Bauer is running alongside its radio stations.