Jobsite, one of the UK’s leading recruitment sites has teamed up with Portsmouth Football Club to offer a life changing CV-optimising opportunity to 18-22 year olds, culminating in a chance to visit Africa where they will be providing skills and support to develop youngsters and face up to the many challenges of growing up in communities plagued with poverty and hardship.

The initiative, named ‘Beyond Blue’ is a group community project designed to help improve employment opportunities and prepare futures of young people in the competitive job market that awaits them after education. It is another progressive project developed through Jobsite’s main club sponsorship of Portsmouth FC, along with local youth volunteer service Community Fusion and international volunteering and development charity Coaching For Hope.

The Beyond Blue project builds on the highly successful Premier League Into Work Scheme piloted by PFC and Jobsite back in 2009, the continuing scheme has so far resulted in an outstanding 62% of participants getting back into work.

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A few weeks ago we wrote about our sponsorship of the UK Recruiter Blog of the Year. It’s an annual competition that aims to recognise the top blogs by active recruiters (agency and inhouse) – nominations are made by readers and provided they meet the entry criteria then they are assessed by a judging panel against the criteria of:

• Quality of writing (is it interesting/engaging, no typos, ids there a call to action etc)
• Volume of posts
• Blog design (descriptive name, picture of the blogger, easy navigation)
• Post content (is there a mix of text, images and video)
• About the blogger page (contact details, links to facebook, LinkedIn, Twiiter to enable readers to interact with the writer)

The panel made its deliberations earlier this week…and we have not one but TWO winners!

The overall winner of Recruitment Blog of 2011 – and recipient of the Jobsite Trophy – is…

The Dylan Blog Continue reading “Jobsite Honours the Recruitment Blog of the Year!” »

A big thank you to all of you who have been leaving feedback for recruiters on the experience you’ve had while job hunting. Your responses enable us to record and reward the top recruitment agencies on Jobsite, who are giving you guys the best customer service.

At Jobsite we believe that job hunting should be as simple and easy as possible, everything we do and have built has been with that goal in mind; to take the frustration out of finding the right job. Some time ago, we asked you how the job hunting process made you feel and you said that the biggest annoyance was the lack of response from recruitment agencies. Your comments about the importance of agencies offering good customer service prompted us to do something about it. So we launched Jobsite’s RecruitRank to encourage and reward the agencies who are offering job seekers a great experience.

How do I leave feedback for recruiters?

Through your MyJobsite page you can feedback anonymously to recruitment agencies on the service you have received after applying for a job. We also send you a reminder email 2 weeks after you apply for a job.

Do recruiters listen?

The feedback is completely anonymous, but recruiters can respond to comments you leave. The anonymous conversation will hopefully lead to any issues being resolved. Your comments also enable recruiters to monitor and, if necessary, improve their service offering to job seekers.

Who are the top recruitment agencies in 2011?

Each year we also hold a RecruitRank Awards evening, celebrating the top recruitment agencies in the UK – as voted for by you (rather than a panel of judges). The award categories are based on the responses to the questions we ask you. With several thousand recruitment consultancies eligible for inclusion in the RecruitRank Awards, these winners stand out as examples of best practice in the area of customer service, so a big congrats to all the winning recruitment agencies: Continue reading “Thank you for telling us what you think” »

In the short time since our Fresh Thinking 2 event – in which Tomi Ahonen and Tony Fish presented on Mobile and the Future of Digital Engagement – we’ve been hearing from attendees about their key takeaways and how they are implementing them in their businesses.

As part of our event review we are bringing you some of the best ideas…

The Bloggers View

We always enjoy reading the blogs that the Fresh Thinkers inspire, and there were three really strong ones that we’d like to share with you:

Mobiles, Metronerds and Digital Footprints with Jobsite’s Fresh Thinkers – social recruiting consultancy Sirona liked the way that Tomi and Tony made them think about the recruitment sector from different angles, and also enjoyed many of the soundbites!

Data drives effective mobile marketing strategies – digital marketing agency Pauley Creative specialise in the construction sector and they were looking at ways that their clients could leverage mobile to grow and nurture customer relationships

Elan Computing – then there was this review from the IT recruitment company Elan Computing…they are fast adopting social and digital tools and talk about the takeaways that will help accelerate performance. Continue reading “How Fresh Thinkers are Changing the Way You Think About Mobile” »

At Jobsite we’re passionate about blogging and always enjoy reading the many varied and enlightening views and insights that bloggers within the recruitment sector share.

For the last four years we’ve followed UK Recruiter’s Blog of the Year Award with interest as it never fails to showcase some really intelligent and thought provoking writing. This year we decided to get involved!

For the 2011 award we will be providing the prizes – as well as creating a trophy, we’ll also be giving the winner a Flipcam – and will assist the judging panel. And we’re looking for our readers to help with the nominations.

The competition is open to any recruitment blogger – inhouse or agency – that can satisfy these three criteria: Continue reading “Help us find the Best Recruitment Blog of 2011” »