I got the first sense this week in a long time that some kind a real jobs appetite was starting to return to the market.
The number of briefs coming in to our consultancy is starting, I think, to show that the demand is returning. You wont see any pictures of green shoots or mentions of anything green at all but if you want an instinct on what is happening, then there you have it.
It was good to see the Reed Index reporting some positive year on year stats for post Easter too.
I am looking forward to seeing some more good news reports later this year.
As we have heard recently iob search site Indeed, already a long-standing powerhouse in the U.S., has overtaken TotalJobs to become the top job search site in the U.K. based on unique visitors.
Who are these job aggregators? Here are some of the aggregators Alexander Chase uses to penetrate the market for the best available talent.
Indeed.co.uk is a search engine for jobs, allowing job seekers to find jobs posted on thousands of company career sites and job boards.
Workcircleis a job search engine with live UK jobs and Global jobs to match most needs.
Indeed to the uninitiated is where you may very likely end up after a few clicks of a recent job search without necessarily knowing. It’s a great handy place to carry out your job search because it sort of acts like a google for all jobs. You only really need to go to one place and do a search for a job function and you get some great recent job postings in that category….easy.
As reported in Venturebeat.com Indeed has overtaken TotalJobs to become the top job search site in the U.K. based on unique visitors.
As of March 2012, Indeed has attracted more than 67 million unique visitors
Working on some great new video content for the Alexander Chase website. Not the finished article by a long shot buy had a play with Keynote on the mac. Keynote has got some great features so wanted to do something simple for people to view.
I enjoy working on web content and presentation material. Let me have your comments. It definitely needs some sound.
I am listing some great new jobs at the moment so the PR market must be doing well even with all this recession talk!
I remember two things about the year 2007. One was driving home listening to radio 4 reporting that according to two eminent economists we were heading south rapidly and about to enter 10 years of economic austerity.
Running the recruitment business I was at the time the tap had already been figuratively speaking turned off (and yes anyone in recruitment at the time will know it was that obvious and dramatic).
At the time of course I didn’t want to believe it having worked hard to get a business up and running.
Well not quite 60 seconds. Alexander Chase was delighted to start the week with another successful hire and placement.
The PR agency in question a top London Consumer Lifestyle agency with an enviable client list had been looking for a high calibre PR Account Manager for 3 months.
Not quite 60 seconds but we managed to find and select the right candidate within a week of receiving the initial brief. The hiring Associate Director was delighted with the progess Alexander Chase made having not worked with the agency before.
Great bench mark for future and a positive impression we have
Searching for job vacancies isn’t especially easy if you are currently in a role. Calls from job agencies with all sorts of different positions can be distracting. One of things that can be made to work for you is a simple tool called RSS or Really Simple Syndication!
What is RSS. According to wikipedia..
RSS(originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",or
