Online recruitment website, Naturejobs celebrates strong growth with new website

Naturejobs today unveils a fresh design and improved functionality and navigation for its website, naturejobs.com. The new website is the latest development for Naturejobs, which has grown to be the worldís largest dedicated scientific jobs database through pioneering free online advertisements.

Launched in 2000, Naturejobs grew out of the classified recruitment section of Nature and launched naturejobs.com in 2001. Naturejobs now offers over 4500 scientific vacancies online, more than any other dedicated science jobs website. Naturejobs.com is free to use for jobseekers, attracting more than 2.5 million page views per month. Users should find the new website more navigable and user-friendly, says Gene Russo, editor of Naturejobs. We expect the site will not only provide useful content and job-search resources, but will also act as a portal to the careers and workforce news found elsewhere in Nature and other NPG publications.

As well as a new look and feel, content on naturejobs.com has been reorganized and new sections added to make the site easier to navigate. The new Career Toolkit page has sections on mentoring, networking, salaries, presentation and interview skills and an 'ask the expert' forum.

Information industry analysts Outsell Inc. have forecast strong growth in 2009 for services like Naturejobs, despite the current economic downturn. In a recent report Outsell predicted revenue growth of 18% in 2008 and 16% in 2009 for online classified sites, outstripping the overall information industry average.

In 2008 Naturejobs online sales grew by more than 25% on the previous year. While revenue growth for classified print advertising is slowing across the market, Naturejobs continues to attract significant paid-for advertising both in print and online.

Continued growth in sales, number of postings and site traffic validates Naturejobs adoption in November 2006 of a ëfreemium modelí. Basic online job ads are free to post, and recruiters can pay to upgrade to premium online ads on naturejobs.com, and online and print advertising in Nature and other titles from Nature Publishing Group.

Naturejobs was the first major scientific job website to offer free job postings online. The number of jobs in the Naturejobs database has risen significantly since introducing free online ads, jumping from 900 jobs in November 2006 to 2400 by January 2007. Two years on this expansion has continued, with more than 4500 job listings on naturejobs.com in February 2009.