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The first surveys for NORAS 2010 have been launched on participating internet job boards.
A record number of job boards will participate in the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) next year.
NORAS 2009, the largest ever online recruitment survey, has revealed that online job seekers are interested in seeing more than just job adverts when they visit job boards.
Enhance Media announced today that they have seen an increased interest in online recruitment.
The largest ever online recruitment survey shows that online job seekers are prepared to be increasingly flexible to get the job that they want.
Enhance Media announced today the completion of its acquisition by Giles Guest.
The largest ever online recruitment survey shows that an increasing number of online job seekers are now using mobile internet devices in their search for a job.
The largest ever online recruitment survey shows the number of people exclusively using the internet to look for a job has doubled since 2007.
The latest figures from the IAB / PwC Online Ad Spend study show that online recruitment advertising was worth £195 million in the first six months of 2008 – this is up from £145 million in the second half of 2007. There’s usually quite a jump from the second half of the previous year to the first half of any current year (see figures below), but the increase is still encouraging given the background of current economic news.
This newsletter details some key changes that we’ve made to NORAS 2009 that should help recruiters get even more from the data – read on for more information. This is our first newsletter since June – as you can guess from this, we've had a busy summer and wanted to use this email to let you know about some of the things we’ve been doing.
London and Canterbury are the e-capitals of the UK according to the first national survey to lift the lid on what Britons are doing on the internet. Bournemouth was second to last and Torquay had the lowest score, making it the most e-Luddite town in the land
NORAS focuses on how online job seekers use job boards, but how do online job seekers use recruitment consultancy web sites? This is the question that Enhance Media and the REC aimed to answer through RIO - Recruitment Industry Online. RIO sampled over 4,840 online job seekers that visited nine different recruitment consultancy websites representing a variety of different industry areas and seniorities. Those job seekers completed online questionnaires that looked at their demographic profile, their motivations for visiting recruitment consultancy websites and their job seeking behaviour
Three online recruitment courses provided by Enhance Media have been approved as BTEC qualifications – thought to be the first in the UK to achieve this status.
The results of NORAS 2008 use data from questionnaires completed by 40,601 online job seekers across 25 of the UK's leading job boards. You can use the data to help understand the audiences of these sites in more detail and this can help you identify the right job board for your recruitment needs.
A poll of 40,000 online jobseekers shows nine per cent exclusively use the internet to search for work – a figure that has increased by 50 per cent since last year.
We've just started analysing data from 'How e are you?' the survey that we've been running to look at the habits of web users. So far over 12,500 people have taken the e-test on the site and discovered their e-score, e-group and the sites that internet users like them value the most.
We've just announced the programme for our annual 'Online Recruitment - the year ahead' conference, which next year takes place on February 1st 2008. We've got a great line up of speakers who are addressing the key issues facing online recruitment professionals over the next 12 months, including social networking sites and mobile e-recruitment.
The NORAS 2007 Update results are available to download for free by registering at NORAS. The results feature new ABC ELECTRONIC audits from 19 of the 27 job boards and show an average increase in Unique User numbers of 15% per site. Details of the six sites with the largest percentage growth in Unique Users are shown below.
New figures from the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey show the majority of job boards recorded an increase in Unique User numbers in the first half of this year.
A new website has been launched to find out what the UK’s 29 million internet users are doing online.
Audited figures, revealing for the first time the number of responses to vacancies advertised on job boards, are to be included in the next National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS).
Estimates regarding the level of broadband use in the UK vary (for example NORAS shows that 65% of online job seekers have a broadband connection at home while BMRB's Internet Monitor shows that 89% of all UK connections are via broadband). But you can be sure of one thing - the increased use of broadband has changed the way that people use the internet.
We've just added a new course - Search Engine Optimisation for Online Recruitment - to our range of open seminars. We've also just announced dates in Manchester for our other three open seminars, so with all these new dates and courses it seemed like a good idea to summarise the training that we've got coming up over the next couple of months.
Enhance Media has defended online recruitment following the widely reported problems being faced by junior doctors over the selection for specialist training posts.
The IAB / PwC have been tracking the value of online advertising by analysing figures submitted by media owners since 1997. They started working with five media owners and have grown the survey to include submissions from 102 media owners in 2006.
1 - NORAS 2007 features information on 27 of theUK's leading job boards and uses data gathered from questionnaires completed by 37,617 online job seekers.
The results of NORAS 2007 are out on 29th Janaury. NORAS 2007 is bigger and more detailed than ever before. It's based on questionnaires completed by over 37,000 online job seekers across 27 of the UK's leading job boards.
Since 1 October 2006, age discrimination has been unlawful in the UK. This has been heralded as the biggest shake-up of employment law since the 1970's, when sex and race discrimination became unlawful. Workers of all ages are now protected from discrimination at all stages of the employment relationship, starting with recruitment, and there are some particular areas which recruiters need to look out for.
Online recruitment classified advertising was worth £103 million in the first half of 2006 (compared to £94 million in the first half of 2005), but the fastest growing online medium continues to be Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising.
Three members of the team at online recruitment specialists, Enhance Media, have gained a professional search engine qualification enabling them to boost the effectiveness of pay-per-click advertising campaigns.
Total Jobs has recently audited the number of 'applications' the site generates in a single month; this is good for Total Jobs and good for the industry.
JobServe, widely reckoned to be the world’s first internet recruitment site, is to take part in the next National Online Recruitment Audience Survey.
More recruiters are using NORAS to decide where to place their job ads, new figures have revealed.
Ninety-one per cent of companies who use the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) find it useful and half say it has directly influenced where they place their jobs ads, new figures show.
The NORAS 2006 Update results are now available for free from www.noras.co.uk. The results feature new ABC ELECTRONIC audits for five sites - doctorjob.com (79,433 Unique Users), Prospects.ac.uk (520,840), Scotcareers (110,401), tesjobs (383,096) and TipTopJob (157,412).
The BBC news describes Web 2.0 as the new rock and roll - but what is Web 2.0? Enhance Media first looked at Web 2.0 at the back end of 2004 during our 'Online Recruitment - the next 10 years' conference. We speculated that Web 2.0 could be a faster, spam and ad free version of the internet that users could pay a premium to access.
Employers and recruiters will be able to find out more about individual job boards when new features are added to the next National Online Recruitment Audience Survey, following the success of this year’s survey.
A new high-profile partnership has been forged between Enhance Media, the leading UK online recruitment communications agency, and i-GRasp, the market-leading candidate software from StepStone.
The latest IAB figures show that online recruitment advertising was worth £182 million in 2005. This is a 50% increase from £121 million in 2004. The figures also show that the entire UK online advertising market (including paid for search, banners, sponsorships, email advertising, non-recruitment classifieds, interruptive formats and other display advertising) was worth £1,366 million in 2005.
Recruitment consultancy websites will come under the spotlight in a new annual survey being launched by Enhance Media and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
The results of the UK’s largest online recruitment survey are published today, providing a detailed snapshot of how Britain’s 11 million job seekers tackle finding a job.
1.NORAS is large and established. NORAS started in 2002 and to date has used data gathered from over 67,000 online job seekers. NORAS 2006 uses the largest sample of online job seekers so far – 18,724.
Hasn’t Google been in the news a lot recently? Not content with being recognised as the internet’s best search engine and becoming the world’s largest media company, Google is expanding into new areas and exercising it’s new found influence. But with this expansion and power Google is experiencing significant growing pains and possibly damaging its brand.
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