Trial Demand Forces 1Job Search Engine To Rethink Strategy

1Job.co.uk, the UK and Ireland jobs search engine that sends job seekers to job adverts on job boards say that there has been a huge increase in demand for job seeker traffic trial requests. 1Job, say they are working flat out to meet the pre Christmas rush and that the ëword-on-the-streetí is that many job boards are getting themselves set-up now for a bumper New Year, and that they are keen to get all their candidate attraction strategies finalised in good time.

1Job Sales and Marketing Manager, Ivan Callanan said ìWe have to get new job board trials running by early December so that we can provide meaningful traffic forecasts for them for the New Year. To encourage this we have launched our ëBuy 3 for 2 Offerí. This simply means that any job board with over 1000 jobs can participate in a free trial during December. We will continue to drive traffic to their job adverts throughout the remainder of the month of December free of charge in return for a commitment to stay with 1Job in January and February. This clearly presents a major advantage to job boards as the usual pre Christmas and New Year first quarter, somewhat frantic, quest for traffic can be avoidedî.

ìJobs adverts at job boards are read, indexed and updated automatically by the 1Job search engine, so there is normally no set-up work at all required by job board technical staffî, Julian Felstead 1Jobís MD said ìWe still have work to do at our end in order to get things organised properly for each trial, but getting this sorted early in December does mean I donít have to pay my staff double time to work over Christmasî [There was no comment from 1Jobís staff on this point!] Julian went on to say ìA key benefit to our customers is that this will give us more time in which to optimise customers listings to meet any special traffic requirements that they may have ready for the big New Year pushî.

Previously this month, 1Job.co.uk announced they sent over 1,000,000 job advert click thrus to job boards in 30 days during October and November.

1Job staff have asked to take this opportunity to wish a ìHappy Christmas and prosperous New Year to all their customers ñ old and newî.

For more information on the 1Job.co.uk job search engine and the ëBuy 3 for 2 monthí offer contact Ivan Callanan or Mark Cary on 0870 3500 230 or sign up via the site form at www.1Jobtrial.co.uk.

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