Category Archives: job board sales

Net Natives – so what exactly is it that you do…?

I’ve been involved in recruitment for 16 years and set up my recruitment business nearly 2 years ago, yet I still struggle to know what to say when people (alright, my Mum) asks, “So, what sort of business are you?”. Our unique way of looking at recruitment is so pioneering it’s hard to put us [...]

Job Board Statistics – this is what we know

We had a wonderfully busy 2009, working with over 100 new clients in the last 3 months alone, who now keep coming back for more. Here are some of ours and the UK’s job boards’ vital statistics for October to December 2009. Our goal for 2010 is to help make recruitment open, transparent and helpful; [...]

Flat Fee Recruitment. What exactly is it?

Hello hello, Don here – I’m an online marketing and social media consultant at Net Natives and will be discussing all things social, engaging and recruitmenty and hopefully can give some good advice on using social media and online marketing techniques to improve recruitment processes and attract more visitors to your site. Today I want [...]

The future of recruitment; where do we go from here?

Posted 20th February 2009 Simple points reiterated; recession and a massive decrease in employment growth means that… Employers are finally able to take a breath and look at strategic recruitment and recruitment strategies rather than ongoing reactive growth. Recruitment budgets are being cut from advertising and consultancy fees. Suppliers will have to become creative to [...]

Recruitment advertising – how to sell when the client says "we're not recruiting"

Posted 12th February 2009 Recruitment sales has had it pretty easy – there I said it. I am not saying it has been all rosy (I should know, I launched a “not very successful” job board for a legal publisher a few years ago), but the sector has benefited from year on year growth since its [...]

lateral ideas for making money out of job boards in a tighter market

Posted 2nd February 2009 a4curv3gw6 “It’s not the strongest or most intelligent that survive; it’s those that are willing and able to adapt and change.” How many times are we now going to hear this quote now that we are so close to Darwin’s anniversary? Today I am going to appropriate it to use specifically [...]