Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Search | Tags: Jobs, online recruitment, radio, real radio, recruitment, scottish jobs | No Comments »
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.”
Posted: December 10th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Search | Tags: cosla, Jobs, jobs scotland, public sector jobs, recruitment, scotland | No Comments »
Search.co.uk has praised local authorities in Scotland for harnessing the benefits of online recruitment through their adoption of a new jobs portal and a partnership trial with commercial job boards in Scotland.
Search.co.uk has welcomed continued moves by UK government bodies to step into the 21st century with the adoption of online recruitment procedures.
Recent months have seen several government agencies switch from traditional newspaper advertising to listing available scottish jobs online, with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) being at the forefront following the creation of the ‘myjobscotland‘ portal and trial advertising agreements with leading Scottish recruitment websites, including Search.co.uk/Jobs . Praising the Convention for responding to a fundamental shift in recruitment practices, Scotland’s leading jobs site believes that the move will deliver a number of key advantages.
“Recruitment is not a science, it’s an objective and logical process when done properly and is all about matching jobseekers with the right skills to the right jobs. Entering into the digital age can, however, make the process smoother and easier, attracting a wider selection of jobseekers and improving candidate selection processes and timescales,” said Peter Gillespie, Managing Director of Search.co.uk.
“It’s not simply about making savings on advertising budgets. There are greater benefits to be gained; notably changes to working practices which will free up staff and allow them to focus on more value adding work whilst also enabling local government to compete with the private sector for quality staff, particularly in sectors where there are skills shortages.”
The progress made by COSLA’s launch of the myjobscotland portal and the trial deal to post all Cosla member vacancies across 6 leading Scottish job sites, including Search.co.uk/Jobs, means that local governments can measure and implement a more effective use of their resources to deliver improved performance, by reducing advertising costs and competing more effectively for the right candidates. The all-council recruitment website, seeks to maximise the benefits of both online advertising and technology to improve the quality of responsesreceived by the 32 councils offering jobs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and the rest of Scotland.
Improved efficiency is one of the driving forces behind the newly created application and online advertising trial. Cosla’s new online recruitment function will reduce the costly, long-winded process of advertising in print outlets, harnessing the latest innovative online technologies to make it a more painless, speedy and cost efficient exercise.
Posted: December 10th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Search | Tags: job search, Jobs, recruitment, search.co.uk, tcmo | No Comments »
As the build-up to Christmas gathers pace and parties come thick and fast, the recruitment market goes into its traditional quiet period, vacancy numbers on job boards dwindle and clients put off those hiring decisions until next year.
However, if you’re actively seeking a job, now is the perfect time to make sure your job hunt is ready to move into top gear. Although times have been undoubtedly tough and job vacancy numbers are generally still considerably lower than a couple of years ago, January is a key period for recruitment. And, some sectors are showing real healthy signs of growth in terms of job vacancies and recruitment activity for 2010.
So, is your CV in great shape to make the most of you? Are you contacting all the right people now to make sure they have you front of mind when the upturn starts in January? A first step could be to check out our own ‘CV Tips’ and ‘Interview Tips’ on Search.co.uk/Jobs to make sure you are following the basic ‘golden rules’ for success.
Never assume you know everything, as some great candidates make some basic errors at every stage of the process – errors that can seriously affect their chances of getting the right job. So, make sure you are not one of them!
Some other advice may be to contact a career advice company like ‘TCMO’, or ‘the career management organisation’, based in Edinburgh. They are experienced recruitment professionals who offer the ability to help you achieve your potential when looking to change career, find a new job or even just chase promotion more effectively. Visit www.tcmo.co.uk for more information.
In the meantime, check your CV again and follow our own basic ‘golden rules’, then check out almost 4,000 current live job vacancies on Search.co.uk/Jobs today! Or, register your updated CV via ‘My Search’ and create some ‘job agents’ and we’ll email you matching vacancies as they are added to Search.co.uk/Jobs.
We hope you have a great Christmas break and a happy new year and we wish you all the best for your job search in 2010!
