Careers in Recruitment or Recruitment Careers - Which Do Recruiters Use More?
Online recruitment sites - recruitmentcareers.co.uk and careersinrecruitment.com are the 1st and 2nd results in google.co.uk’s searches for ‘recruitment jobs‘ and ‘recruitment careers‘.
How do they take advantage of these positions and which is best used by recruiters?
A look at the sites itself shows a huge difference in their respective appeals.
Recruitmentcareers.co.uk has a rather plain feel, more of like something a desperate designer created overnight. Using archive.org, I was able to see how the site looked like in the past and in my opinion that was far better than its present design.
Its alexa ranking is pegged at 1,478,325 - meaning that a lot of activities is not happening on the site. Again, alexa rankings should be taking with a pinch of salt.
Careersinrecruitment.com - which comes 2nd in the search results has a nicer layout and better colours (my favourites, blue and orange) and the navigation is superb.
It has the Top 10 Live jobs which gives candidates the ease to click and find recruitment jobs.
Careersinrecruitment.com is also a member of the broadbean network and has alexa ranking of 889,895, which is decent enough for a niche jobsite.
Common sense states that the later gets a better share of recruitment advertising for recruitment jobs. Which do recruiters use more?
Monster UK Hits 4 Million CVs? Makes it ‘Harder’ to Find The Right Candidates
Onrec is reporting that Monster UK has announced that their site Monster.co.uk now has four million CVs in its database. This number is more than 13% of the working population in the UK.
Having used this leading online recruitment jobsite myself, I value the array of candidates that can be found in their database.
The only issue is the recruitment technology they depoly which delivers poor candidates search results for specific keywords - offering you a large number of ‘unrelated’ CVs which you have to sift through. Hmm, very painstaking!
I think that very large online recruitment job boards should start focusing on making candidates searching easier than getting overly excited on the number of job candidates on their jobsite.