Another more-than-satisifed customer

"Jobshout is an outstanding and cost effective business tool for young businesses looking to maximise their web presence. There is no better offer on the market and a superb support team to assist with every step. I strongly advise any new or existing recruitment agencies to join Jobshout" - Rob Wickenden Director, Harry Owen Ltd

Thanks Rob, for your very generous comments.

Click here to take a look at the Harry Owen website.

We implemented the entire site, by the way, not just the job board.

Jobshout page tracker technology

Did you know this?

Jobshout stats use Jobshout's very own technology called Page Tracker, which logs every page impression on any Jobshout job board.

This works regardless of where the job board is being hosted. Even if a job board is running on mirror servers in different countries Page Tracker will make sure that every hit is collated, analyzed and ready for reporting in Jobshout Stats almost instantly.

In this way Jobshout gives you accurate figure of visitors, jobs applications, job page impressions and much more via its state of the art stats section.

Jobshout is growing

Jobshout has gained an extra team member; Victoria Fry has joined Jobshout as a new Account Manager. With a strong background in recruitment and the digital world, Victoria has a great insight into the industry.

She will be a great asset to Jobshout and keep us moving forward with her creative ideas and recruitment knowledge.

crazyegg.com

I've been desperately trying to see how I came across this great idea. It's one of the advantages of using a news aggregator that it helps you to come across really interesting things on the web, of which this is definitely one. The downside is that you get so much information that it's easy to lose track of where it came from.

Crazyegg lets you "see" graphical representations of web analytics data on the page. This is potentially brilliant, to have a visual impression of what links people click when they visit your site, where the hotspots are, how patterns change according to where the visitor came from or how quickly they responded when they arrived - things like that. It's free for a basic account and pretty reasonably priced at higher levels. And it's one line of javascript put into a page to get the analytics going.

Well, I''m going to try it out. Watch this space.

Back to the grind again

Well, here we are again - with belated New Years wishes to all our readers. And we come back to the wonderful news of yet another pot shot at the temporary recruitment market. In case you have missed it, a Bill will be debated in Parliament next month about the rights of temporary workers. This is a cause celebre for the trade unions, who have been grinding on about it for years. They were a driving force behind the 2004 Employment Agencies Act Regulations, which severely hampered recruiter’s abilities to protect their legitimate commercial interests in respect of temps. It stems from a belief that temps are routinely and cynically maltreated, and yet, to the best of my knowledge, they have never advanced any statistical evidence in support of this.

Here’s the REC’s counter on the subject:

Temping provides instant access to work, it allows people to balance their work life with other commitments and can act as a stepping stone into employment from those furthest away from the jobs market. REC has promoted a strong and successful campaign to Government about the true nature of temping. This has been supported by research from REC’s Industry Research Unit that has shown that over 80% of temps are satisfied with their assignment and welcome the opportunities that temping brings them. Research has also shown that the resources that temps bring to businesses helps them cover exceptional periods, from standing in for a worker who is on leave to helping to grow a small business and take it to the next level.

What the REC does NOT say, of course, is that a significant percentage of temps temp because they prefer to, and because they can often earn significantly more than their fulltime colleagues.

And here’s a link to the REC’s news item.

Sounds like time to dust off that MP and get him/her to speak up in the House in support of the dynamic, flexible work market that the UK recruitment industry provides.