It’s still making the headlines and we can’t help but add fuel to the 140 character fire.
When Twitter bought the search engine Summize back in July last year the Twitterverse was made infinitely more usable for everyone, but it still didn’t solve Twitters business model issue – the fact that they don’t have one.
Today the good people at Wired Sussex are putting on their annual careers and skills fair at the Brighton Corn Exchange from 12pm – 8pm. This is well worth attending for anyone looking to further their digital media career, improve their contact list or if you just want to wander around and wet your appetite.
Brighton has a thriving digital media scene, boasting over 750 different animation, video, games, web and technology companies. There’ll be a number of representatives from such companies promoting their job vacancies, as well as presentations and career advisors on hand to help with all your digital job woes.
I finished this white-paper off about how job boards, recruitment companies and internal human resource departments a little while ago but I’m really pleased I can finally unleash it to the public at large.
It’s quite an involved read but if you’re just trying to grasp how social media can work in the recruitment sector it’ll get you up to speed and if you’re fully immersed it’ll give you some great in-depth tips.
You can download it here, or read our lovely marketing bumph below.
It’s a dynamic market out there for [tag]job boards[/tag], the big generalists are among some of the largest spending advertisers in traditional media and even smaller niche players aren’t afraid to splash their cash in the pay per click arena.
First we topple monster then we take over the world – via flickr
If you are thinking about launching a [tag]job board[/tag], either as an offshoot of an existing site or from scratch, it’s vital you think about your marketing strategy long before the website goes live.
At Site Visibility, we’ve developed a bit of a specialism in the job board & [tag]e-recruitment[/tag] sector, so we thought we’d share some of our top tips marketing your job search site online.
Read on
Recent figures from the latest Jobcentre Plus employer survey shows increasing numbers of employers with jobs to fill are turning to the internet in order to find job candidates
According to the latest annual survey, a 25% of all filled job vacancies were advertised online in 2006.
The proportion of overall vacancies that appeared online rose to 16 per cent, up from 12 per cent in 2004. Out of the 4,500 employers surveyed, 12.5% reported that they had posted job adverts online in the past 12 months.
The shift to online recruitment is also notable among those seeking new job opportunities. In one week in June, around 2.2 million job seekers carried out over 6 million searches on the Jobcentre Plus website.
Elsewhere in the report, it was revealed that the SME sector was the most active of recruiters. Firms with between 10 and 249 employees were responsible for 66% of all successfully filled job openings.
In the last year of the 3.97 million jobs advertised, over a 33% of them were advertised with Jobcentre Plus. Good news all round really for [tag]job board[/tag] owners and the [tag]online recruitment[/tag] sector.
