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EVENTS
FREE IT STRATEGY BRIEFING, 10TH SEPTEMBER 2002, LONDON TheSkillsMarket, are holding a free IT strategy briefing in London on Tuesday 10th September for IT directors and managers from IT recruitment companies. The briefing will be held at the Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel in London and will run from 4pm to 6pm. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for people to meet for drinks at the hotel bar. There are limited places available for the briefing If you are interested in attending, contact Michelle on 020 7354 9669 or michelle.stewart@theskillsmarket.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECRUITMENT NETWORKING EVENT, 26th SEPTEMBER 2002, LONDON After another highly successful networking evening on the 29th August we've scheduled our next event for Thursday 26th September 2002. Photo's from previous events and information about registering is available at http://www.recruitmentnetworking.co.uk Places are limited, so you must register in advance if you want to attend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11TH OCTOBER 2002, RECRUITMENT INDUSTRY AWARDS DINNER 2002, PARK LANE HILTON, LONDON The Recruitment Industry Awards Dinner is taking place on Friday 11th October on the evening of the annual REC Conference. The Awards night celebrates the "best in the industry" and includes a champagne reception, gala dinner and entertainment. There are seven award categories and almost all now have finalists. To find out more information on the awards visit the website at http://www.rec.uk.com/events/rec-awards.htm. To find out more about the conference visit http://www.rec.uk.com/events/conf2002.htm or call the Events Team on 020 7462 3280. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15th - 16th OCTOBER 2002, RECRUITEX, LONDON The annual Recruitex and Recruitment and Staffing Forum takes place at the New Connaught Rooms, in central London in October. Recruitex is the only recruitment specific exhibition to be held in 2002. As well as the exhibition the Recruitment and Staffing Forum includes breakfast meetings, seminar sessions, Recruitment International's Directors Forum and an ATSCo open meeting. For more information visit the website at http://www.gateway-events.com or email Jonathan Robinson at jonathanrobinson@gateway-events.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23-25 OCTOBER 2002, CIPD ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION, HARROGATE If you're interested in keeping up to date on the latest HR strategies and issues you should consider attending the CIPS Annual Conference and Exhibition. There are over 30 seminars featuring over 100 speakers from the world's top business schools and leading organisations. Subjects covered include people management, business performance and strategic development issues. There is also a free exhibition with over 300 people management and development suppliers. For more information visit http://www.cipd.co.uk/annualconference or call 0870 429 4479
CareersinRecruitment RELAUNCH Interactive and Recruitment Training Ltd (IRT) announce their recent acquisition of the UK’s premier recruitment industry job board, CareersinRecruitment. CareersinRecruitment was facing liquidation back in June 2002, until Tim Dawson and John Ellis, co-directors of IRT stepped in and saved the recruitment job board from further demise. The acquisition further expands IRT’s portfolio of niche sites that includes aviationjobsearch.com and traveljobsearch.com. CareersinRecruitment.com was launched in 1999 and acts on behalf of recruitment agencies throughout the UK. It was the first of its’ kind, allowing recruitment consultants and senior managers the opportunity to control their career more easily, by enabling them to post their CV and search for that lucrative recruitment job via a job site specifically catering for them. The CareersinRecruitment site will be formally re-launched on September 18th whereby for the first month, the service is totally FREE to recruitment clients. http://www.careersinrecruitment.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FALL IN INTERNET RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING The volume of vacancies advertised on Britain’s leading recruitment websites has slumped by almost half in the last year, according to the online industry portal AlljobsUK.com. In the last 12 months to Monday 12 August 2002, the number of jobs has plummeted by over 200,000 from 533,291 to 330,333. This includes 19,000 vacancies with Stepstone which closed this year. The 6 top websites, Gojobsite, Jobserve, Monster, Planetrecruit, Quantum and Totaljobs have seen an average drop of almost 50% on this time last year. Not only does this reflect the much lower volume of vacancies available, but it impacts directly on sales revenues for these job advertisers. Much will be blamed on business confidence and share value depreciation since September 11, but it should be noted that JobTrack has seen a 6% increase in the same period. Source: www.AlljobsUK.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nominations being made for national online recruitment awards alljobsuk.com have launched the second annual National Online Recruitment Awards (NORAs) to search for the leading recruitment websites in the UK. The nine categories of award are: The categories which will be awarded are: Best General Jobsite, Best Specialist Jobsite, Best Regional Jobsite, Best National Recruitment Agency Website, Best Small Recruitment Agency Website, Best Employer's Recruitment Website, Best Online Recruitment Section by a National Publication, Best Online Recruitment Section by a Trade Publication and Best Employment Advice Website. Nominations must be received by 20th September - you can nominate a site at www.alljobsuk.com. Entrants will be judged by a panel of independent specialists, including UK Recruiter Director Louise Triance. The winners will be announced on October 15th. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jobseekers keep faith in online applications Jobseekers are becoming more and more reliant on the progress of online recruitment in their quest for their next move in the employment market with a 55% application success rate through the internet, according to new research from the UK's leading internet recruitment service, GoJobsite.co.uk. Jobseekers are more and more reluctant to blacken their fingers with newspaper print when they concentrate their efforts on finding new employment. Only 13% considered newspapers to be the easiest medium through which to look for jobs, and only 22% found the most success in applying for jobs that they found through newspapers. In contrast, 82% of jobseekers considered the internet to be simplest way to source new job opportunities, 84% listed the internet as the easiest way to apply for jobs, with 55% listing the internet as the route to enjoying the most success for job applications. Other places that jobseekers considered easiest to look for jobs were, through 'word of mouth/personal recommendation' (4%) and the trade press (1%). Easiest to apply for jobs saw newspapers coming in with 11%, and 'word of mouth/personal recommendation' with 4%. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEMPS24SEVEN.COM Three former colleagues who worked together at a Halifax firm have set up a new UK-wide recruitment website. The site, Temps24seven.com, is a job site for temporary and contract workers. It deals with jobs nationally and across all sectors of employment and attracted more than 2,500 job seekers in its first month. The company has also developed an innovative piece of data software which delivers the right candidate to the right vacancy. For further information visit www.temps24seven.com FREEcandidates.com launches targeted job seeker service. FREEcandidates.com have launched a new service that is dedicated to attracting targeted job seeker traffic via the search engines. The company specialises in search engine optimisation services for the recruitment industry. On the FREEcandidates.com web site you will see an example of how just five extra CV’s a day gained through the search engines could generate an extra £90,000 in placement fees. The new service will pay for itself many times over from just one extra candidate who was placed as a result of finding your site through the search engines. http://www.freecandidates.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New recruitment publication for the UK recruitment industry The £23bn a year UK recruitment industry gets a new magazine in September, brought to the market by Paul Harwood and Philip McMullan, previously the advertisement director and editor of Professional Recruiter. The Recruitment Consultant will be a monthly title aimed at the people who work at the sharp end of the UK staffing market. A lively mix of news, analysis and features, the new mag will also cover lifestyle issues, going beyond what has previously been published in the recruitment market. With an initial circulation of 15,000, the magazine has a dedicated interactive website at www.therecruitmentconsultant.co.uk which has already gone live. The site includes career advice and jobs for recruiters as well as a host of other features. Commenting on the move, Paul Harwood said: ‘We are very excited about this opportunity to create a strong new title for a fantastic industry. The support we have received from the market has been incredible.’ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job board use is up as online recruitment spend increases The results of the IQPC Exchange / Enhance Media Benchmarking Study 2002 make positive reading for the online recruitment industry. The results show that the use of job boards is up year on year with respondents now advertising on an average of 3.3 job boards, compared to an average of 2.5 one year ago. The results also show that online recruitment spends have increased in the last year, up from an average of £21,000 to £26,700. The Benchmarking Study was conducted for the second consecutive year by Enhance Media on behalf of IQPC Exchange. The research was carried out at the recent IQPC E-HR Exchange, which was held on 26th and 27th June. The Exchange bought together over one hundred of the UK’s leading HR professionals and suppliers for two days of workshops and discussions regarding the use of technology in the HR profession. Full results of the IQPC Exchange / Enhance Media Benchmarking Study can be obtained by emailing results@enhancemedia.co.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online recruitment made easier by Enhance Media’s Recruitment HealthCheck Enhance Media, the online recruitment specialists; have launched a new product aimed at taking the stress out of the recruitment process. Enhance Media’s Recruitment HealthCheck is a tailor made report that answers key questions in the recruitment process; which job sites should I use to post my vacancies, how does my recruitment site compare to those of my competitors and how can I drive more traffic straight to my corporate site? |
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