http://www.ukcareers.co.uk Matching Recruiters with Candidates ... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:18:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/more-features/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/more-features/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:12:30 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=471
We’ve added to our  portfolio of Wordpress features available in the new search widget and have our first customer trying them out. We can now embed the search widget within customer sites and filter search results so it only display vacancies advertised by that customer. In addition, we can theme the widget to match the [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/more-features/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/first-look/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/first-look/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:31:46 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=467
Ok, we have an initial version of the new software up for testing on the Pharma Careers demo site. This should be relatively complete from a candidate’s perspective although we’ve not included any of the recruiter functionality just yet. Please feel free to use the built in feedback form, we would very much appreciate your comments, [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/first-look/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/development-update/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/development-update/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:05:49 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=456
Ok, we’re on the last list of fixes prior to a test release .. most of those are browser compatibility issues. If anyone has any strong views about which browsers should (or shouldn’t) be supported, I’d be interested to hear. Currently we’re explicitly supporting Firefox 3.x, IE6 and IE8 .. hopefully we can get access [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/09/development-update/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/08/new-look/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/08/new-look/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:38:49 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=440
Development marches on, the candidate dashboard is now working and work on the registration Wizard is nearing completion leaving only personal profile and criteria selection left on the candidate interface. I’m sure there will be plenty to change and enhance when the first revision is finished, but as an initial release it’s looking pretty good. ]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/08/new-look/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/07/the-new-candidate-interface/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/07/the-new-candidate-interface/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:55:43 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=416
Based on feedback from the initial demo of the vacancy search widget, we’ve now finalised the design and look of the new client GUI / search interface for the next version of the Jobs Board. Here are some screen shots, click on an image for a full-size view. A list of features is included below [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/07/the-new-candidate-interface/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/07/user-interface-tng/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/07/user-interface-tng/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:51:26 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=407
Well it may have looked like a quiet month but we’ve been working away on the new Jobs board user Interface. Building on the concept exhibited by the search widget, we’re going with a popup box that sits in the middle of the screen which will mask out the underlying page, thus allowing the widget [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/07/user-interface-tng/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/so-how-we-doin/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/so-how-we-doin/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:16:14 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=355
Well, we’ve been running for about 2 weeks now (on the new website) , so how do things look? We were sort of coming from a standing start as the old UKCareers site was just being used  for publishing a few articles and wasn’t getting much by the way of hits, so 762 visits does [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/so-how-we-doin/feed/ 1 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/vacancy-search-20/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/vacancy-search-20/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:32:23 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=343
Here it is, the first live preview of the UK Careers Vacancy Search Widget. Please take a look and let us know what you think, and in particular whether is works for you or does anything strange. It’s been tested on the latest versions of FireFox and Internet Explorer only, so if you’re using an [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/vacancy-search-20/feed/ 2 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/permalinks/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/permalinks/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:41:51 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=333
I’ve just turned on permalinks (so page URL’s no longer contain question marks), reindexed the site and re-submitted to Google webmaster tools .. which might help Google’s search index rating. I’ve also installed DB Cache which should make the site a fraction quicker .. ]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/permalinks/feed/ 0 http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/technology-preview/ http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/technology-preview/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:33:01 +0000 Gareth http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/?p=327
We’re now getting started on the new Jobs board user Interface and things are going fairly well. The decision is to use WordPress (as per “this” site) as the base for the new software with administrative tasks being handled by ExtJS with the data remaining in MySQL. There are a host of reasons for this [...]]]> http://www.ukcareers.co.uk/2009/06/technology-preview/feed/ 1