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| Re: jobsite or cv library |
| Author: | jobboard advisor |
| Date: | Wednesday, 28th Jul 2010 13:26 |
| Views: | 8 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Job Boards | | URL: | http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=209888 |
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Hi Solo,
Jobsite is a more established board in the IT market and have been around much longer than CV Library.
The clients that I deal with will mainly look at Jobserve & Jobsite and will then pick from CW Jobs, IT Jobboard, Planet, CV Library etc as a secondary option.
CV Library has improved greatly over the last 3 years and has become more and more of a useful tool for recruiters, but the feedback is that Jobserve/Jobsite still provide the majority of placements.
This is only based on the feedback that I receive and i am sure other people will agree/disagree.
The biggest dilemma you will have will be cost.
Jobsite will probably be 3 x more expensive than CV library so if you are increasing spend as a nice to have then you will probably choose CV Library.
Have a look at both boards and see where your competitors are advertising as that should give you a good idea which way to go.
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| Re: jobsite or cv library |
| Author: | interested Advertiser |
| Date: | Wednesday, 28th Jul 2010 13:55 |
| Views: | 7 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Job Boards | | URL: | http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=209888 |
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Can I ask...what is the calibre of CV`s applicants...is it good from jobsite...or cv library,
I`m thinking about advertising on both, but worry about getting the same candidates...the jobs are sales jobs...or any one have reccomendations of sales job boards....simplysalesjobs tried them , but no go |
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| Re: jobsite or cv library |
| Author: | Lee |
| Date: | Thursday, 5th Aug 2010 17:36 |
| Views: | 6 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Job Boards | | URL: | http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=209888 |
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Hi Solo,
A question for you is, do you recruit locally or nationally? the reason i ask this is a lot of people say that candidates outside of the local area apply to jobs on national job boards and which can be a pain in the....
Also that a lot of the sites have the same candidates?
I'm the training manager of for the largest group of regional jobboards in the UK and after researching jobseeker habits found that 96% of people in the UK use google as their preferred search engine. 25% people search by job title + location 75% search generically e.g manchester jobs, jobs in surrey then go to the relevant sector. Niche and national job boards are good and can deliver but if 75% of candidates type generic local searches you could be missing out on talent your competitors are getting.
Global to local was a phrase banded about at this years EU HRD summit in Birmingham. And a lot of the nationals are trying to go local.
you will also notice when typing in generic searches that the well known national boards rarely appear at the top naturally and have to pay a sponsored ad to be there [1 in 10 click the ads]. if you didn't know this is because google ranks websites in terms of relevance of the content people are searching for [one of many reasons but a main one]
so it stands to reason that mysheffieldjobs.co.uk is going to be more relevant than jobsite for people searching for 'jobs in sheffield'.
I'm not suggesting all of our candidates are different but we are constantly told by clients we have themost relevant and freshest database going. perhaps you should consider looking into local/regional job boards as a resource as well as national, it's the future... all the best |
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| Re: jobsite or cv library |
| Author: | Mitch |
| Date: | Friday, 6th Aug 2010 12:52 |
| Views: | 3 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Job Boards | | URL: | http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=209888 |
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Why do so many recruiters blindly lay all the blame for poor ad response numbers/quality at the job boards door?
Why are they always asking which job board will solve their problems rather than asking how they can improve the way they communicate their job adverts?
It's like a sales person blaming the territory rather than taking a look at how they're actually trying to sell their product.
Or is that just too obvious? |
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