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News Release from: Jimfinder.com
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 June 2004
Some recruitment websites undermine web
confidence
The burgeoning number of recruitment websites offering endless job 'shopping lists' will undermine confidence in the web if candidates and vacancies are not well matched.
The burgeoning number of recruitment websites offering endless job 'shopping lists' will undermine confidence in the web as a method of recruitment if candidates and vacancies are not well matched Which is why businesses and jobseekers are better served by specialist sites, says engineering recruitment website Jimfinder.com
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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This view is reinforced by Ray Duggins, managing director of TheITJobBoard.com.
In a recent interview with recruitment advertising industry website ri5.co.uk, Duggins says he finds it difficult to believe that many of the sites can be commercially viable - pointing out that some of the larger sites are now owned by organisations "with very deep pockets." But he highlighted the success of specialist sites such as Jimfinder.com, adding: "Some very commendable niche sites - Jimfinder, for example - are evidently continuing to do well." Jimfinder's Tim Bowman commented: "Engineers using recruitment websites need - and deserve - to have access to 'real jobs from real companies'.
Agency shopping lists, funded by the job boards' free deals, may offer seemingly impressive volume of jobs on their websites, but they fail to inspire the jobseeker, and certainly don't give a true overview of the marketplace.".
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