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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | interested |
| Date: | Wednesday, 14th Oct 2009 16:59 |
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Who is
Recruitersite.co.uk ...?
and what is it...
just seems another impersonator on the block
It`s not for me.....
I think at the moment, too many jobboards etc affiliates are clones, no-one is moving forward with new ideas
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | scott taylor |
| Date: | Saturday, 17th Oct 2009 16:39 |
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This is a very strange reaction to a service that has been created to help recruiters, but judging by your comments you are indeed the guy that has just put his 2 fingers up to 90% of the industry 19000 SME's that face real challenges and do need the opportunity to compete.
As you said the concept is to create an equal playing field, would you rather SME's be handicapped?
Broadbean is a quality tool and it has its place in the market,
Spire are a strange one as they are just trying to flip ads but fundamentally are a recruiter, so why would a recruiter hand over control to a 3rd party I don't know.
For the benefit of doubt recruitersite.co.uk is a completly web based product operational 24/7 and is a job post platform the concept of the multipost has been developed to give an easy to use all-in-one system, where you post to multiple respected job boards from one convenient advert, for one price. The alternative is multiple contracts with various boards and a multiposter, which is expensive or don't fill your jobs!
Yes there is competition and that is a great thing as whether it is on the track or in life competition raises standards which can only be good for the industry and its clients.
As for the supporting job boards they should be commended for trying to help SME's rather than screw them over, simple fact is many recruiters that have only worked for larger agencies do not appreciate how lucky they are to have access to the resources they do, but if independents are going to compete, grow and fill a greater percentage of those vacancies then change should be embraced because one thing for certain is the larger agencies are not going to be leaving their recruitment advertising to chance, neither should you!!
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | Luke Collier |
| Date: | Monday, 19th Oct 2009 10:19 |
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Isn't it slightly misleading when it says you post to 6 Job Boards?
Fish4 and CV Library fair enough
Workhound and 1Job are aggregators (both take jobs from Fish4 and CV Library for free anyway)
Reed is free isn't it? (up to a certain amount)
Recruitersite....hmmm what is that worth?
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | Archie McAffrey |
| Date: | Monday, 19th Oct 2009 12:28 |
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I for one, like the look of Recruitersite. The ability to post single vacancies at a time to the job boards they have deals with, is far better than signing up to ongoing long term contracts with these sites directly.
As a small independent recruiter, I can't afford to be tied to a contract with a job board beyond my immediate needs. I want to be able to advertise on a "job by job" basis, wherever it suits me, and according to my budget.
As for the aggregators, I know that several take vacancies for free, like Indeed and Trovit, whilst other don't. Job boards and agencies have to pay to get their jobs on Workcircle, 1Job and Workhound - I imagine Recruitersite do too.
Recruitersite might not be a big change to the current market, but they are offering something that wasn't available before. I do think that big job boards will loosen their insistence on ongoing contracts soon, given that they really need the revenue. They'll have to work out if that will either make them, or lose them, net revenue first. |
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | scott taylor |
| Date: | Monday, 19th Oct 2009 12:54 |
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Hi Luke,
On the site and packages it states 6 sites, not job boards, the idea is to spread the exposure as much as possible and to take into account the changing habits of the UK jobseeker which now are catching on to the benefits of the premier aggregators.
We purchase Reed premium slots for all our clients that by Reed data are 4x more effective and help to seperate our adverts from the other 95000 on the site.
Included in the price is the multipost, so what we have tried to do is give the best value product at the fairest price, whilst negating the need for contracts.
I hope this answers your questions, and you can rest assured that we will be taking all comments onboard to develop recruitersite into a product that sits well within industry and helps SME's gain a greater market share.
Regards Scott Taylor |
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | Luke Collier |
| Date: | Monday, 19th Oct 2009 14:46 |
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@Archie
"As for the aggregators, I know that several take vacancies for free, like Indeed and Trovit, whilst other don't. Job boards and agencies have to pay to get their jobs on Workcircle, 1Job and Workhound"
You are right about Workcircle but not about the others.
Workhound take all the jobs for free, you pay them to put your jobs at the top of the search (like a paid for search model i.e Google)
@scott
I can see the benefit of Reed,CV Library and Fish4. Are these jobs branded? |
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | Independent Recruiter |
| Date: | Monday, 19th Oct 2009 17:22 |
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@ Scott,
let me commend you guys on this concept, great no more contracts and long term commitments to job boards which don't deliver. I think recruitersite is great and I for one will be looking to use it at the earliest opportunity. Good luck!
@James I don't get your fear of playing in a market where all parties have equl access to the same resources..are you afraid of a little competition? are you afraid that the 'lazy recruiter' who previously could not afford the extortionate advertising may actually do the job better than you?
Sites like recruitersite will actually help to differentiate the better recrutiers ass they can start to focus on the service provided to clients & candidates.
Independent Recruiter & Recruitersite fan |
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | anon |
| Date: | Tuesday, 20th Oct 2009 11:25 |
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Not quite independent
" Mark was my manager when I first got into recruitment almost 15 years ago. He was true to his values then as he is now. He brings a high level of integrity, focus, motivation and desire to every role he undertakes. These are the values I believe will ensure he makes a success of his new venture. I would have no hesitation in collaborating with Mark again in the futre. July 3, 2009"
Sol Jeewa (sj@solomanassociates.com) (Managing Director at Soloman Associates) worked directly with Mark at HRGO.
From linkedin....
The Mark referred to is Mark Jones who now runs recruitersite.com
Nothing wrong with backing an old Manager but you should be more upfront about it. i don't think you do them any favours with your post.
I don't have any gripe with recruitersite.com - looks good to me |
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | Luke Collier |
| Date: | Wednesday, 21st Oct 2009 15:21 |
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Quick point to make.
I have been contacted off-line with some information and so I should make a correction to my previous post.
1Job.co.uk doesn't take jobs off job-boards for free. They are wholly paid for - therefore maybe this is a better deal than I first thought
Fish4 / CVLibrary / 1Job / Premium Reed Posting
Still not sure about workhound and recruitersite though!
Also unclear whether you recieve a branded job or not
Anyway wanted to make the correction - only fair
thanks
luke |
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| Re: What do you think? |
| Author: | scott taylor |
| Date: | Wednesday, 21st Oct 2009 21:38 |
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@Luke,
Cheers Luke, as I said to a small agency owner today, if you are going to compare like for like it's as difficult as comparing apples and oranges, because it is only when all the elements are put together that we have the product we offering.
Recruitersite has only been under soft launch in the past couple of weeks and has not yet started it's direct marketing activities, the purpose of this soft launch phase is to tweak, gain feedback and improve the overall product, already we have streamlined the refinement section on all boards we post to, as a result of feedback further committing to the project and the ethos of easy to do business with, over the coming weeks a very comprehensive SEO programme gets underway, which will make great strides in increasing traffic and awareness of the site and URL.
At this point all adverts that are posting on recruitersite are getting upgraded to Hot Jobs at no extra charge, so as to display our gratitude for the business.
You mentioned Workhound a very good outfit and the Brains behind Twitter Job Search, we see Workhound as an important part of the advert marketing mix, and HAVE and ARE having detailed discussions how we can get the best for our clients, the process is not straight forward because of the complex nature of cross posting and replication between boards,
I will keep you posted on the updates.
Further sites are already being lined up for the coming months, and with the support and business from SME recruiters we believe that we can make it even more affordable.
We also have a one of a kind deal to reverse publish throughout regional newspaper network, in our standard package upwards, this costs £89 for multiple sites and newsprint promotion, a 5 line lineage costs in excess of £100 so we see this as a no brainer.
What do you and other forum members think to this offering?
Kind Regards
Scott Taylor (scott@recruitersite.co.uk) |
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