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The Secs Man Is Back And In The Clear

2 years, 5 months and 27 days after selling his first job board to media group Trinity Mirror and Mr Secs (a.k.a SecsInTheCity founder Jon Grocott) is back. This time with a new network of niche job boards branded ClearlyJobs.

This news is hot off the press, but we can confirm…

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Added by Julian Stopps on May 7, 2008 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Podcast 55: Recruitment Advertising Galore

The latest digital recruiting news podcast from born is out now.

On this show this week AllTheTopBananas acquires D7's video CV site, job boards are failing SMEs and Phorm is in a storm.

Plus several online advertising stories that are relevant to online recruiters.

All this news, and more, this week on…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 30, 2008 at 6:04am — No Comments

Are Job Boards Failing SMEs?

This week whatjobsite, an information site for direct employers, announced that UK job boards are letting down small-to-medium sized businesses. The findings are based upon new research conducted by the company, combining user surveys and a study of 30 popular job sites.



Following the announcement we interviewed Karl Schweppe, Managing Director…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 26, 2008 at 10:31am — No Comments

Interview With Amanda Lacey - FuseJobs

Last year FuseJobs launched to the UK market. The site has an interesting business model, which is a cross between a niche job board and a vertical search engine.



This week we took the opportunity to speak to Director Amanda Lacey about the site, why the company selected the ‘entry-level jobs’ sector and the challenges in aggregating job…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 24, 2008 at 7:01am — No Comments

Podcast 54: Salary Is Sacred

The lastest born podcast is out.

We've a great show for you this week, including an interview with Amanda Lacey of FuseJobs, news on Indeed's new search criteria and Borrell's predictions for the recruitment industry growth.

All this news, and more, this week on…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 22, 2008 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Recruiting Via New Media

Most people recognize that we are in the middle of a new media revolution, so why aren’t we seeing more recruitment advertising within online broadcasts?



Ok, from a media consumption perspective I’ll admit my household is a little extreme. 99% of all news, video and audio is delivered via the net [continue…

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Added by Julian Stopps on April 18, 2008 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Job Board Widget Review: AllTheTopBananasPosted by Julian Stopps on April 17, 2008 at 5:52am

We kick start our review of job board widgets this week with the AllTheTopBananas widget.

AllTheTopBananas, the name says it all: bouncy, energetic and not too serious. It’s a young site and full of innovation, so it comes as no surprise that it was one of the earliest sites to release a job widget.



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Added by Julian Stopps on April 17, 2008 at 6:01am — No Comments

Podcast 53: Ups And Downs Of Online Recruitment

Listen to podcast now The latest born digitial recruiting podcast is out.

On the show this week: online advertising in the UK rockets, Forrester reports career sites are failing job seekers and HayMarket announces two new job boards.



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Added by Julian Stopps on April 14, 2008 at 3:17pm — No Comments

What Will Provoke The Next Job Board Innovation? SearchMe!

The way that job boards display search results hasn’t changed much over the years. Traditionally vacancies have been listed in a rather flat textual manner, but that might be about to change.

The reason: we are beginning to see some new innovation [continue reading]

Added by Julian Stopps on April 10, 2008 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Podcast 50: Job Searching Kept REAL

The latest born online recruitment podcast is available.

On the show this week: HotJobs reengineers its job search, Monster launches FastWeb Volunteers and Google's search with-in search causes an upset.



All this news, and more, this week on the born…

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Added by Julian Stopps on March 31, 2008 at 4:36pm — No Comments

Job Board Widget Reviews

Over the next few weeks we will be embarking on an investigation into the job board widget, by taking a look at a range of widgets offered by UK job boards. We will present the pros and cons of each widget, finishing up with a comparison of all the widgets we’ve reviewed.

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Added by Julian Stopps on March 30, 2008 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Podcast 51: LinkedIn Like To Have Company

The lastest born podcast is out.

On the show this week: Google says "no" to the newspapers, Stepstone acquires Level4 and LinkedIn launch company profiles.



What's more we've news of a phishing scam targeting Guardian Jobs, news of Zubka's expansion over seas and much, much more!



All this news on your weekly born… Continue

Added by Julian Stopps on March 26, 2008 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Podcast 50: Being Snappy with Talent

The latest born digitial recruiting news podcast is out now.

On the show this week: Snaptalent knows where you work, Chinwag launches DigitalPulse and has the Internet killed the job fair?



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Added by Julian Stopps on March 18, 2008 at 6:32pm — No Comments

The Most Influential People In Online Recruitment

Who are the most influential people in the UK online recruitment market today? Is it recruiters with their significant buying power, or corporate employers with their substantial job inventories? Or is it the online publishers and job board owners who control the methods of reaching huge job seeker audiences? Actually, I think it’s job posting services and here’s why.…

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Added by Julian Stopps on March 14, 2008 at 2:34pm — No Comments

Podcast 49: You Say CV, I Say Razume

The born digital recruitment news podcast is out.

On the show this week: Job advertising volumes rocket, online advertising has a shaky start to the year and introducing Razume.

All this news and more, this week on…

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Added by Julian Stopps on March 11, 2008 at 4:18am — No Comments

Are newspapers back in the game?

It seems to have passed almost unnoticed but it looks like the newspapers are sneaking back in the recruitment advertising race. I know it sounds crazy, a print medium succeeding in the modern era, but facts are facts. [continue reading]




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Added by Julian Stopps on March 6, 2008 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Podcast 48: The Rise Of Smart Recruiting

The latest born online recruitment news podcast is out.

On the show this week: RiseSmart secures funding, TMP partners with SelectMinds and is February the new January for online recruiting?



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Added by Julian Stopps on March 5, 2008 at 5:24pm — No Comments

Working The Workhound

WorkHound UK job aggregator Workhound have been busy of late. Not content with grabbing the headlines at the turn of the year by securing 100k in funding, they have pushed out two noteworthy news items this week.



First off, Workhound is the only [contiune… Continue

Added by Julian Stopps on February 27, 2008 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Podcast 47: Stepping Into Norway

The latest born podcast is out.

Internet recruiting news this week: Another acquisition for Stepstone, The Network has a revamp and more newspaper partnerships.

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Added by Julian Stopps on February 27, 2008 at 4:03am — No Comments

The Future Lies With The Olds

In the online recruitment world we spend a lot of time asking questions like “What’s the next social network the new wave of job seekers will be using?” and “How can we reach out to Generation Y?” The truth is we should probably be putting our effort into answering the question “How do I get my dad to use a job board?” Why?

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Added by Julian Stopps on February 21, 2008 at 5:21am — No Comments

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