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.

What's new?

It's been a postless couple of weeks, though actually we've been very busy - witness the fact that I'm doing this post around midnight.

So what's been happening? Well, in among a host of minor enhancements, two things stand out.

Firstly, we've been doing a lot of work to optimise the Jobshout system for faster performance, putting live a new release of the server about a week ago. So far we are very pleased with the results, with everything running quicker and fixing a strange problem which had suddenly appeared. Basically things which get requested all the time, like images, CSS and Javascript files are now being published by a separate server. It's a process which we are intending to continue over the months to come, gradually separating out the jobs of content publishing from the content management (back end) side of Jobshout.

Broadbean subscribers will also be pleased to hear that we are now at the stage where we are about to start beta testing the system, so hopefully we will be able to release it in a few weeks' time.

Basically, it works like this. You enter your jobs on Jobshout in the normal way. Everything is the same, except that, if the system knows that you are a Broadbean subscriber, you will see a "Post to Broadbean on Save" checkbox, which defaults to being on when the job is entered. There is also a "Broadbean" link, next to the "search optimisation" one at the top which opens up another area on the entry screen where you can specify the job boards that you want to advertise the job on. This area will also show the status of this job on each job board, as reported by the Broadbean system, and also has a link for you to remove a job from an individual job board. When the job is posted you can set individual setting for each job board.

So with Jobshout you will be able to enter once and publish many times - a potentially massive saving of time and money.

More soon. Sleep is starting to beckon...

Jobshout automatically publishes Jobs via RSS feed

Jobshout RSS feed link

Did you know this?

Whenever a Jobshout user signs up for new Jobshout account and starts publishing jobs on their web site, Jobshout also creates the HTML code which publishes current jobs via RSS. Most browsers will understand this code and will allow users to look and search jobs via RSS.
Jobshout's RSS server also creates the necessary RSS feed of current jobs ready to be served over the internet.

Please check out links below to see Jobshout RSS in action.

feed://jobs.workstation.co.uk/rss.xml
feed://genericsoftware.jobshout.co.uk/rss.xml

By the way, if you want to give others the RSS link for your Jobshout job board, so that candidates can get the latest jobs via RSS automatically, just remember that the RSS feed URL will be based on your job board web site address (URL) and/or unique job board account code as explained below:

If the address for your job board is http://jobs.xyz.co.uk/, the RSS feed will be at://jobs.xyz.co.uk/rss.xml

More information about Jobshout RSS feed URL

Jobshout RSS feed is published in many ways from Jobshout but two well known techniques are as follows:

If your job board is published on the jobshout.co.uk domain, the RSS link will be simply simply:

feed://{Your Jobshout Account Code}.jobshout.co.uk/rss.xml.

A working example RSS feed is feed://genericsoftware.jobshout.co.uk/rss.xml in which case genericsoftware is the unique Jobshout account code.

If your job board runs on your own domain, the link will be something like this: feed://jobs.xyz.co.uk/rss.xml. For example, the Workstation Jobshout job board is at http://jobs.workstation.co.uk. Its RSS feed is at feed://jobs.workstation.co.uk/rss.xml

Most RSS readers come with a scheduler, which will automatically update the jobs feed.

For more on Jobshout RSS technology please visit http://jobshout.co.uk/rss_feed.html &http://pages.workstation.co.uk/rss_feed.

Theg ood news is that most mobile phones (especially iPhone) have an RSS feed reader so users will be able to look at your on their mobiles.

Enjoy!