New FE jobs website off to a flying start

FEjobs.com, the specialist job site for further education, announced this week that more than 10% of AoC colleges have signed up just six weeks after the launch of the site. Uptake has been especially prevalent in the London area with 40% of colleges joining the site.

FEjobs.com, developed in association with the Association of Colleges (AoC), has attracted hundreds of job postings from over 40 colleges throughout England and Wales.

Sue Dutton, Deputy Chief Executive, Association of Colleges commented,

ëThe feedback we have had from our members has been excellent. Given that most of our personnel officers are not familiar with using the Internet as a medium for recruitment, we are delighted. Our aim is to help colleges reduce the cost of recruitment, speed up the overall process and give them greater choice of candidate.í

The development of www.FEjobs.com is a result of the combined expertise of college personnel officers and Eteach.com, the UKís leading education recruitment website. FEjobs.com enables colleges to advertise their vacancies online, reaching a wider pool of candidates almost instantly, and to receive candidate applications on and offline.

The costs of placing an online advert are considerably less than taking newspaper adverts.

FE managers, lecturers and administrators looking for new posts can search the FEjobs.com online vacancy database free, at any time, for positions throughout England and Wales. Candidates can also register for free job alerts, which will email them suitable jobs according to the criteria they have set. College application forms may be downloaded by jobseekers or in some cases completed online and returned. It is possible that applications could be received within one hour of the vacancy advert appearing.