Online Christmas shopping rush to help fuel SEO jobs market in 2010 report CV Screen

With Online Shopping expected to grow by up to 20% this Christmas, specialist IT Recruitment Agency CV Screen anticipates continuingly high demand for SEO skills in 2010.

With CV Screen’s IT Jobs index showing that demand for SEO / Online Marketing skills increased by 40% over the last year. At the same time there is upward pressure on salaries with the average salary for an SEO specialist in the UK now just over £30,000.

Managing Director of CV Screen Matthew Iveson added “With online retailers such as Amazon, ASOS and Play.com phenomenal growth, it is clear that more and more companies will be looking to bolster their online presence as we move in to 2010.”

Iveson then stated, “We have seen the number of SEO Jobs increase dramatically over the last 6/12 months with employers finally beginning to see the benefits of employing experts in house rather than relying on SEO agencies."

When questioned about what specific SEO skills are in demand Iveson added “Clients are being very demanding in this area and are looking for candidates with experience of implementing SEO strategies, running Pay per Click (PPC) campaigns and also a full understanding of Social Media. This means that candidates must understand the benefits of running a company blog and also how sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn can be used for business advantage."

In conclusion, Iveson added “Our belief is that the most in demand candidates in 2010 will be those who offer a mix of SEO, Online Marketing and web development skills who have the ability to formulate and implement online strategies in this rapidly expanding area.”

About CV Screen Ltd

Established in 2000, CV Screen is a leading IT Recruitment Agency which recruits for organisations throughout the UK.

As one of the UK's leading IT Recruitment Agencies, we have an impressive client base including Links of London, Essex County Cricket Club, Hackett Plc and Easy Group.

With fees of 12.5% of the basic salary for permanent recruitment, our service enables our customers to reduce their recruitment costs without compromising the quality of candidates they recruit.

As one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies, we also have new specialist divisions focusing on Accountancy Recruitment and Marketing Recruitment

For further information, please click the following link - CV Screen or call 0845 200 8170 or visit http://www.cvscreen.co.uk

CV Screen has recently launched two new job boards focusing on SEO and PHP. Click here to learn more about SEO job board. 

For more information about Jobshout, call or e-mail Balinder Walia: 01442 381434, balinder.walia@jobshout.co.uk

Free domain name and unlimited email addresses with Pro account

Who hosts the job site?

We do normally host your domain, but we can automatically send the pages to your own server if you prefer.You can also buy domain names from us. Jobshout offers free DNS with every domain name and DNS management is all done online with easy to use admin control panel. Jobshout also offers unlimited email accounts hosting with 1GB mailbox storage space per account and with unmatched support for emails and domain names. Please click here to register new domain name. Please note you can also transfer your domain name to us using our online easy to use tools.

What will the domain name url or web address of my job site be?

By default yourname.jobshout.co.uk. You can also use an address which is a subdomain of your existing website (like jobs.yoursite.co.uk).

A relevant domain name is really important for your SEO. If .com or .co.uk domain name is not available please contact us and it might be that the .jobs domain name is available. We provide free consultancy on choosing the right domain name. Please contact Jobshout consultant for a discussion now.




Note: If you run a Job board using Jobshout Pro we will give you a free domain name and unlimited emails. You have to actually buy the domain names and email hosting first and if you are Jobshout Pro customer we will credit your account with the amount you have spent. If you are not a Pro customer yet you can still lock your domain and and keep the receipt safe to claim your credits back. Please email support@jobshout.co.uk for more information. Subject to our terms of business - Please click here to see Terms and conditions of business

Story of Jobshout

Jobshout began it’s journey about two and half years ago at Workstation Solutions Ltd when I was working on some other CRM software projects. I noticed publishing jobs and content online for administrators was a nightmare. We were missing lot of opportunities as not every new job was posted on the site as it was practically not very easy to do so as it was laborious process. Also there was every chance of making technical errors as every page needed to be tested and working on all Internet Browsers. There was no meta data on these pages for best SEO. So chances of finding our site by new visitors on the web using Search Engines was nil. There was not a single readymade system available of this kind to manage jobs and CVs online on a branded web based system . And if the online brand changes all the site content would have to be re-developed again. As you can imagine it was quite an effort to post a single job. I had some web development experience and everyone in the company supported this new idea and I was commissioned by Steve and Nathan to write something which will allow them to run their business efficiently.

Since then Jobshout has evolved and we started offering Jobshout to external clients as a service. Idea worked really well as there was no hardware to buy, there was no database license to buy and there was no need for big budgets to start online presence. Workstation’s new job board started to attract 1000 unique visitors a day from UK alone. It was quite a big jump from about 10 visitors a day.

Anyway, It will be wrong for me to take all the credit for writing Jobshout as I could have never done it without Workstation’s support and trust in myself. I will be always grateful to Steve Gibson, Vivien Gibson and Nathan Mayatt for creating opportunities for myself and others.

I would like to also take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank Rollo Carpenter @ Icogno Ltd for his excellent SEO ideas and work done on Jobshout. And Kevin Williams for his contribution to Email job alerts and broadbean integration.

What is a community job board?

Just recently we've been doing a bit of thinking about Jobshout and its potential for niche market recruitment and business generation.

We've come to the conclusion that, given the formidable array of tools available in JS, its application is even wider than it was when we launched it a couple of years ago. WE came up with the idea of "community job boards". I don't know whether anyone has used this phrase to describe the sort of service we are talking about, but coincidentally a couple of recent signups were thinking along the same lines. We think we are onto a great idea here.

On the web, as in real life, people form communities. In other words they share interests. Community job boards provide a great, often badly needed, service to these niche areas.

A community job board might publish ads for your own town or city. Or it could be that you decide to set up a job board for ads relating to a business sector in which you already work. This is actually a great way to enhance your core business.

Let’s suppose (to give a silly example) that you provide admin services to apple pie manufacturers. You have website attracting hits from people interested in apple pies. You want to get more customers, more traffic to your site, and more income.

You decide to set up a job board for the apple pie manufacturing community and offer it to your clients. They now have a specialist place to advertise for suitably qualified staff and are suitably impressed that you have had the initiative to do this. You, on the other hand, are getting lots of apple-pie-related content going on your site. So it performs better in apple-pie-specific searches and gets more apple-pie-interested visitors as a result. Your business now has greater prominence in the apple pie sector, you get more enquiries and so win additional clients in the apple pie sector. They too advertise positions on your site and you get even more apple-pie-relevant content on your site for Google and other search engines to index. There’s no reason why it can't go on getting better and better.

Your clients are delighted. Jobseekers spread the word. Search engines love your site. You are getting more business. And, if you want to charge for this service, you have an additional income stream.

And it's quick and easy to do.

That’s what we call a Community Job Board. Jobshout enables you to get one online using your own domain name with minimum hassle and expense.

We'd like to know what you think about this in the comments.

If you don't yet use Jobshout and would like further information, email info@jobshout.co.uk, call us on +44 (0)20 7736 8220, view our demo site , just sign up for a trial .

Twitter Job search XML feed URL

Twitter Job search XML feed URL

If you run Job board using Jobshout, and you wish to upload all current jobs onto http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/ using XML feed then read on.

Jobshout server automatically creates the necessary XML feed of current jobs ready to be fed into Twitter job search system. XML output is compliant with Twitter API mentioned here: http://www.twitterjobsearch.com/static/add-jobs

Please checkout links below to see Jobshout XML feed output.

http://jobs2.workstation.co.uk/twitterjobsearch.xml

http://yourcv.jobshout.co.uk/twitterjobsearch.xml

If your Job board runs using jobshout.co.uk domain XML feed link is for Twitter Job Search is simply:

http://{Your Jobshout Account Code}.jobshout.co.uk/twitterjobsearch.xml

If your Job board runs using your business domain XML feed link for Twitter Job Search is simply:

http://{Your domain name}/twitterjobsearch.xml

example:

http://jobs2.workstation.co.uk/twitterjobsearch.xml

Enjoy!

Job Application Confirmation Email to Applicants

Overview
Each recruitment business is different and has different business process, requirements and goals. Jobshout was designed with exactly this in mind so Jobshout has built-in macro language ( or scripting tools ) which can customise Jobshout functionality for each unique customer requirments. Sciprts can be added quickly and many times without making a change in the system.

For example:
A client wants to send an automated Job Application acknowledgement email to applicants who applied for one or more jobs from their Job board using Jobshout.

Example of Email setup by non-technical person:

Hi <*--JobApplicantName--*> → ( At the time of sending email <*--JobApplicantName--*> will be replaced by the actual applicant name )

This is an automated response to thank you for sending us your latest CV and for applying for the following job(s).

Jobs your applied for:
<*--LoopForJobsInApp--*> ( Jobshout loops through no. of jobs in the job application )
Thank you for applying for our job ref: <*--JobRef--*>, <*--JobLink--*> → ( At the time of sending email <*--JobRef--*> will be replaced by the actual job reference and <*--JobLink--*> will be replaced by the actual job details web page )
<*--EndLoop--*> ( Jobshout ends the loop )

We will contact you if we need further information or to discuss your applicationin in greater detail. If you don't hear from us within the next two weeks then unfortunately, on this occassion, your application has been unsuccessful.

Please continue to check the available jobs we have using the following link as we review and update the website frequently.

http://jobs.jobshout.co.uk

In addition, we welcome applications from any of your friends / acquaintances with similar skills.

Please keep us up to date with your employment / job seeking status.

Thanks again from the Company name Team,

Tel: XXX or XXX
Web: demo.jobshout.co.uk
Email: jobs@jobshout.co.uk

Registered in City, Country. Company Number XXX.
Registered Office: Company name and address.

Signature and other terms and conditions can be added here.

Just by adding this email template online and setting to automatically send when ever applicant applies for job(s) and or register a CV will engage applicant and also give good impression. This is just an example. Email templates can be setup for almost any event and mostly by the non-technical person.

See more at http://www.jobshout.co.uk/job-application-confirmation-email-to-applicants