JobsGroup.net Wins Best Technical Innovation at Onrec Awards 2007

JobsGroup.netô has won the award for Best Technical Innovation at the Onrec Awards 2007. JobsGroup.net was also nominated for Innovative Online Marketing and Innovative Offline Marketing.

The award for Best Technical Innovation follows the launch of Artificial Intelligence Matching (AIM) in November 2006, developed in conjunction with Burning Glass Technologies of San Diego. AIM dramatically improves the speed, accuracy and flexibility of online recruitment for both recruiters and jobseekers.

It is the latest in a series of award-wins for JobsGroup.net, including Best Specialist Website and Best Online Service.

At the award ceremony JobsGroup.net Sales Director Craig Bines topped a successful night with a winning bid of 3,500 for a VIP trip to the British Grand Prix in the charity auction in aid of Whizz Kidz, which works to change the lives of disabled children across the UK.

Mark Hepworth, Managing Director of JobsGroup.net, comments, We are absolutely thrilled to collect this award, as it required a substantial investment and 12 months of hard work behind the scenes to develop AIM for market. The Best Technical Innovation Award recognises the potential of AIM to revolutionise niche online recruitment. At a time when 82% of UK companies are experiencing recruitment difficulties, the means to quickly and accurately search a CV database of quality candidates has never been more important.

AIM Explained:

Intelligent Ranking ñ Calculates the statistical probability of a match between a candidate and vacancy and ranks them accordingly. This is a far more sophisticated tool than keyword search as AIM can ëunderstandí the context in which a search term appears, helping to eradicate erroneous results.

Vital Statistics ñ Displays an at-a-glance summary of jobseekersí vital statistics including preferred location; qualifications; salary range; job type preference; key skills; and, unique to JobsGroup.net, their last three positions by job title, employer and duration.

CV Shortlist ñ Enables recruiters to save potentially suitable candidates to a shortlist, which can be revisited at any time.

CV Benchmarking ñ Enables recruiters to find candidates similar to one known to be an excellent match for the vacancy. This feature is useful if the first choice candidate is unavailable or if the recruiter has the CV of someone that has successfully undertaken the same or a similar role.

Jobseeker Benefits ñ AIM technology benefits jobseekers by enabling visitors to quickly and accurately register their details by automatically identifying and extracting relevant information from their CVs.

Future Improvements ñ CV Monitor, which alerts recruiters to when relevant jobseekers register with JobsGroup.net, and Jobs-By-Email, will be enhanced with AIM technology in the first quarter of 2007.

AIM was developed in conjunction with Burning Glass Technologies of San Diego, whose clients include Adecco, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Kelloggís, NBC, Reed and Manpower. Burning Glassís state-of-the-art searching and matching technology differs dramatically from that of more conventional tools. Unlike other solutions, the Burning Glass Lensô platform learns from real-world patterns of placement. As a result, it understands the attributes of people who have placed successfully in the past into similar jobs to the one posted and, based on job seekersí individual career paths, Lensô can predict what kinds of jobs they are likely to place into next.

JobsGroup.net operates ten award-winning niche online recruitment websites in the UK: JustEngineers.net; JustRail.net; JustConstruction.net; JustUtilities.net; Just4Aviation.net; DefenceJobs.com; Just4Finance.net; JustSalesandMarketing.net; Just4Executives.net; and Just4Graduates.net. In January 2006 JobsGroup.net launched a free monthly newspaper, JUST TECHNICAL jobs, sent to over 40,000 candidates. In September, JobsGroup.net launched a new site based in Sydney, Australia: JustEngineers.com.au.

JobsGroup.net is unique because it combines the reach of generalist jobsites with the industry expertise of niche job boards, with over 420,000 unique visitors every month.