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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.