Real Radio launches Scottish jobs service powered by search.co.uk

Scotland’s number one commercial radio station recently teamed up with the country’s leading jobs website search.co.uk to launch a dynamic new recruitment service for listeners.

Scotland’s number one commercial radio station recently teamed up with the country’s leading jobs website search.co.uk to launch a dynamic new recruitment service for listeners.

Initially around 1500 Scottish jobs were listed on Real Radio Scotland’s website and the new service has been promoted online and on-air on Real Radio, part of Guardian Media Group (GMG).

Regional managing director of GMG Radio Scotland and the north east Billy Anderson says the partnership with search.co.uk has allowed the station to create an “instant jobs resource” for listeners. It means we can add to what we already offer to include: “first-class career vacancies across the whole spectrum of the Scottish population that we serve”.

Real Radio Scotland broadcasts across the densely populated Central Belt including the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow where it is now the most popular station. It has been one of the great growth stories of commercial radio in recent years.

Peter Gillespie, managing director of Search.co.uk, says the new recruitment service perfectly illustrates the benefits of collaboration, for both parties: “We’re delighted bring our expertise and thousands of client job vacancies to this partnership with Scotland’s most successful commercial radio station. This collaboration provides an innovative way of providing listeners with a new added-value service, providing access to high-quality job vacancies across Scotland.”

These are offered through the Real Jobs website, at www.realradio.co.uk/jobs. There are over 1,000 Scottish vacancies across a very wide spectrum of industries, services and the public sector, from relief janitor to finance director and almost everything in between.

Gillespie says the partnership between Search.co.uk and Real Radio Scotland shows the way that what were single-media businesses can take advantage of their evolution into fully-fledged multimedia organisations: “Real Radio Scotland the broadcaster cannot be separated from Real Radio Scotland the website. The audience expects the highest quality from both.

“Our recruitment platform provides them with great functionality and user experience and our employer advertisers benefit from access to an additional pool of skilled local talent. Everybody wins.

“Other beneficiaries could be the people who listen to Real Radio Scotland through the website’s streaming service because they are outside the transmission area. Many of those will be homesick, but the Real Jobs service could put them just a click away from a paid return to the Central Belt.”

REAL RADIO & SEARCH.CO.UK LAUNCH “REAL JOBS” PORTAL

Search.co.uk has sealed an exclusive deal with Real Radio, Scotland’s no.1 commercial radio station, to launch “Real Jobs”; a new jobs portal on the Real Radio website which will bring vacancies across Scotland to the attention of Real Radio’s 700,000+ weekly listeners, as well as visitors to the website.

This is the second partnership agreement announced by search.co.uk in as many weeks, following its acquisition of the leading highlands and islands job site hijobs.co.uk in late July.

Billy Anderson, MD of Real radio commented, “This partnership allows us to create an instant jobs resource for our listeners and to widen our offering to include first class career vacancies across the whole spectrum of the Scottish population that we serve. It’s something we have wanted to do for some time and the link with search.co.uk means we hit the ground running when the site officially launched this week (Monday, August 17th).”

The Real Jobs website, www.realradio.co.uk/jobs, will provide access to around 1,500 Scottish employer vacancies across a wide range of industry sectors. The vacancies will also be promoted on-air via a ‘Real Jobs’ feature.

Peter Gillespie, MD of search.co.uk said, “I am obviously delighted to confirm this deal with Real Radio and a new partnership approach that provides benefits for both of us. Having only launched at the start of this year, I believe Search.co.uk’s operating model represents a new approach to recruitment advertising, using technology to deliver uniquely effective result for recruiters and job seekers.”

“As an ambitious, new company we are always looking to make alliances and acquisitions to grow our business in the right way. Last week’s announcement of our expansion into the Highlands and islands via the acquisition of ‘Hijobs.co.uk’, and this week’s deal with Scotland’s no.1 commercial radio station, across central Scotland, clearly demonstrate our ambition and plans to grow our business and give the Scottish recruitment market a shake.”

Real Radio has more than 700,000 regular listeners and Real Radio Scotland’s website enjoys an average of 60,000* unique users on average each month. This population will be added to the 850,000 active job seekers search.co.uk can already reach across the UK, to expand the offering to jobseekers and recruiters in Scotland through ‘Real Jobs’.