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After the closure of the UK subsidiary of StepStone in late 2001, 2002 has been another turbulent year for the online recruitment industry.
The Association of Online Recruiters (AOLR www.aolr.org) have been working hard on behalf of the online recruitment industry in order to try to ensure that forthcoming amendments to the Employment Agencies Act do not have an adverse effect on job boards and the online recruitment industry as a whole.
The National Air Traffic Control Services (NATS) recently apologised unreservedly to all their staff for a sexist recruitment advertisement that appeared in 'Loaded' magazine.
The Media Monitoring Service (MMS) measures recruitment advertising in print publications. MMS records the size of the advertisements (in column centimetres), the vacancy job title, the advertiser, the qualifications that the job requires and other vacancy details.
Enhance Media have conducted a benchmarking study on behalf of IQPC Exchange for the second consecutive year.
There’s a bit of a trend at the moment for long URL’s, with a good example being www.wheredoesitallcomefrom.com, the corporate site of the Seeboard energy company.
The Sunday Times recently reported that the outlook for jobs was recovering sharply. This was based on the latest Manpower quarterly survey of employment prospects.
NORAS has been launched in response to demands from the HR community and from recruitment advertising agencies, both felt that the lack of comparable data on online recruitment sites made differentiation difficult and therefore did not encourage advertising on such sites
There were significant changes to the UK online recruitment market in 2001.