JICWEBS, the Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards, has introduced three new metrics for ABC ELECTRONIC to audit, enabling online recruitment websites to measure and report job application-related activities in a practical and comparable way, to industry agreed standards.
The new metrics were ratified by JICWEBS following a consultation process with a range of interested parties from within the online recruitment sector, including representatives from generic, niche and publication related job sites.
The new metrics are as follows:
Online job application: The submission to a server of an application form or a CV by a valid user
Online job referral: A click on a link within a job listing to a URL specified by a recruiter
Email job referral: A click on a mailto link within a job listing intended for the submission of applicant information and/or a CV to a recruiter 
The new metrics go further than the current metrics by delivering a ëconversioní metric for recruitment websites. The new metrics will bring industry agreed standards to terminology frequently used within the recruitment sector.
Andy Flint, Head of Client Services, ABC ELECTRONIC, said: ìThis is a genuine first for the recruitment sector, delivering transparency and comparability on user actions that are indicative of the effectiveness of recruitment websites. Building a consensus for a conversion metric marks an important step forward for site centric measurement and it is great to see the recruitment sector leading the way.î
JICWEBS ratifies new metrics for recruitment sector
JICWEBS has introduced three new metrics for ABC ELECTRONIC to audit
