Ever since our early days as a family start up, we’ve had big ambitions. Why not aim for the sky?!

Since 1995, we’ve worked hard to provide intelligent recruitment services that make finding jobs easier and less hassle. Along the way, we’ve looked for opportunities to grow the business. And now we support a network of over 30 niche job boards and more than 500 regional websites across the UK.

But we’re not finished yet. Which is why today is so exciting.

This morning our founder Keith Potts announced the launch of Evenbase, a digital recruitment group focused on improving how companies find candidates and how candidates find work in both domestic and international markets.

As an Evenbase company, we – and in turn our clients and partners – benefit from the innovation and expertise that spans 55 countries, includes a network of 60 sites, and employs more than 330 people. Not to mention flagship brands such as CityJobs, Oilcareers and Broadbean.

Which is all very impressive, but you’re probably wondering what this means for clients and jobseekers… Rest assured, day to day Jobsite services and solutions will remain unchanged. And we look forward to sharing the synergies and opportunities generated by Evenbase with you in the future.

To hear a quick word from our founder, and Evenbase CEO, Keith Potts about this milestone play the video below…

Continue reading “Creating New Opportunities for Recruitment Innovation” »

Every quarter we publish a Recruitment Review of jobseekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market. It’s produced for us by independent brand tracking agency HPI and helps us to better understand how candidates and recruiters are approaching the job market.

The Winter 2011 Recruitment Review has just been published and it has some interesting findings on the way that Jobseekers are approaching the market:

• Online job boards remain the most used method, though searching company websites is becoming increasingly popular.
• Newspaper ads are still a valuable source as are recruitment agencies
• Almost 50% are now using social & business networking sites Continue reading “Latest Research Shows Changing Approaches to Job-hunting” »

Our Winter 2011 Quarterly Recruitment Review of jobseekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market is now available to download

This report, run by independent brand tracking agency HPI, shows two key changes from our last report:

• Jobseekers are becoming a little more passive and pessimistic
• Businesses are responding positively, embracing more online recruitment methods whilst remaining cost conscious

The mood of the candidate community is downbeat, with only 23% feeling that their job situation will improve in 2012, and there are signs that they are becoming less active.

For recruiters, the new financial reality seems to have led to more of them embracing job boards – for the first time since our research began in 2008 they have become the number one route to market, with CV search proving the most popular feature.

Other key findings in the report include: Continue reading “Jobseekers Concerned, Recruiters Becoming More Resourceful – Exclusive Recruitment Research” »

Jobsite’s ads will return to TV from Monday 9th January in a high impact nationwide campaign, which will run for 4 weeks across over 200 terrestrial and satellite channels.

In advance of the launch, we wanted to share our plans with you, so that you’re in the very best position to benefit from the thousands of new candidates who’ll be using Jobsite in the New Year.

Continue reading “Jobsite returns to TV from 9th January” »

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!” »