On the 27th March, Spencer Ogden’s mobile app – designed and developed by KeyApps - won Best Agency Recruitment App at the 2014 Mobile Recruitment Awards. The awards, held by Web Based Recruitment, focus on acknowledging companies from around the world leading the way in embracing mobile recruitment, and help to raise awareness of the current mobile recruiting best practices.
Spencer Ogden has recently been recognised for outstanding business achievement with the Queen’s Award for International Trade 2014 and is the Global Energy Recruiter of choice, covering Oil & Gas, Renewables, Power, Nuclear, Smart, Finance, Trading and Mining. Their mobile app was created to allow candidates to search for jobs on the go, and its features include: precise search filtering, apply via CV or LinkedIn, job alerts, call back requests, and a one touch PAYE calculator to estimate take home pay.
Judged by a panel of experts from both the recruitment and mobile industries, the Spencer Ogden Jobs App took the top spot in their category based on its usability, layout and content.
Rob Quirk, Marketing Manager at Spencer Ogden, commented on the performance and importance of their award-winning app:
''Working with KeyApps, Spencer Ogden have developed an industry-leading app which brings together all the energy sectors allowing users to easily search and apply to jobs relevant to them.
“The Spencer Ogden Jobs App has now become an integral part of our recruitment strategy with many of our placements coming from in app applications and huge download numbers from all over the world across multiple devices''
John Edwards, Mobile Software Consultant at KeyApps, added:
“KeyApps was thrilled to see the Spencer Ogden Mobile Recruitment App win Best Recruitment Agency App at the 2014 Mobile Recruitment Awards.
“We’ve had a positive start to our campaign with Spencer Ogden and the SO Energy Jobs App continues to secure high levels of new candidate installs. Even more promising is the sheer amount of existing candidates re-engaging with Spencer Ogden to update their apps. Following a recent Q1 report we can see that well over ten thousand Energy Professionals have updated their Spencer Ogden App following new feature upgrades.
“KeyApps look forward to progressing further with the software and are currently working on a sleek new interface with Spencer Ogden to ensure further streamlining of relevant positions to relevant professionals.
“It's been a joy to work with a business like Spencer Ogden who share our commitment to deliver advanced and user-friendly mobile solutions to both established and prospective professionals.
“With recent findings from Flurry showing apps continuing to cement their lead over mobile web, KeyApps will continue to invest in recruitment app technology to ensure added value to recruitment businesses worldwide.”
The Spencer Ogden app is available to download for free for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Kindle Fire.