Jason Gorham of US firm careermetasearch.com has provoked much discussion by suggesting that niche jobs boards are more effective at generate placement opportunity that generalists (something we would agree with!)  In addition her says that the saturation of the market is driving costs up! as more and more companies try to make enough money to operate from a decreasing share of their market, the only solution is keep prices high.

However, we would predict this will ulitmately  head in the other direction as some boards won’t survice as their market share shrinks, leaving the remaining boards with a larger share and the ability to be agressive with prices to gain further share.  Ukcareers are aiming at a model which offers advertising online at a price which cannot be refused for the results it can deliver.  The key is to keep the boards ‘clean’ as they grow, avoiding the accumulation of out of date data in terms of jobs and candidates.

Whatever happnes, expect to see the above figure of 10% climb rapidly in the coming years.  Online advertising is effective and can be relatively inexpensive, in most cases at a fraction of the cost of paper counterparts.

The most recent launch for graduate jobs uses a new platform hoped to be the future platform for all new Ukcareers sites.  The sites planned cover almost all sectors you could imagine from legal, to tourism, aviation to sport and beyond!  The belief at Ukcareers being that sector specific job boards are likely to perform far better in helping recruitment agencies in generating placements than the general jobs boards, which can generate large numbers of non specific applications.

It is anticipated that the two most recent sites will progress in earnest beyond the summer period, after which further sites will be launched.

After months of planning Ukcareers proudly presents it’s 3rd jobs board offering sales jobs for people with jobs in sales.  The site aims to build on the sucesses of the existing boards pharmacareers and recruitment careers, which specialise on medical sales/pharmaceutical jobs and recruitment jobs respoectively.

The team have already initiated an SEO campaign which aims to see top positions achieved within 4 months, fingers crossed.

Well think again.  If you are a recruitment manager, vacanct recruitment jobs in January will likely mean a slow start, rather than a flying start to 2007.  They certainly won’t want to be short of a full team.

So if you are considering changing your recruitment job, you may actually find recruitment managers are keener than ever to fill their jobs in recruitment, and indeed have you kicking by January 2!!

So maybe just hold off your shopping for a few more days, this could be your opportunity to land your next recuritment job!

Good luck and Merry Christmas

The editor

This new site represents another milestone for the Ukcareers team as it is the first using the new platform, which it is hoped, will be the platform to roll out the remianing 30 sector specialised websites.

This site is particularly exciting as graduate jobs is thought to be one of the largest sectors available as it covers nearly all sectors in one.  Ukcareers now have 4 sites live as follows

Medical sales and pharmaceutical jobs

Jobs in recruitment for people in recruitment jobs

Sales jobs for people with jobs in sales

and now

Graduate jobs

The SEO work will start before this week is out.  The team will be looking for front page positions within 4 months.

Jobs in Pharmacy

A selection of jobs in pharmacy online at pharmacareers.co.uk.  Register to receive job alerts as they are posted by pharmacy recruitment agencies.  Agencies may place their jobs in pharmacy here