For my sins, I seem to spend every waking hour visiting, testing, and analysing recruitment websites of all kinds. Through AlljobsUK.com, I monitor developments in the websites of recruitment agencies, job boards, publications and employers. My purpose is to consult with these companies, and to deliver targeted candidate traffic direct to where vacancies are being...
As Robbie Cowling will testify, Jobserve were the first established online recruitment job board in 1994. Initially a “jobs-by-email” service, the existence of the World Wide Web was known and used by very few, and largely consisted of IT experts and enthusiasts. Early websites were referred to as bulletin boards, leading to the term Job-Boards....
Pay for performance sounds good in theory, but not always in practise. Every link in the recruitment chain has to take responsibility for its own function. That is to say that it’s the responsibility of an advertising medium (a job board) to attract enough suitable candidates, and guide them easily to view the advertiser’s vacancy....
