Archive for August, 2009

reed.co.uk expansion continues

Leading UK job board, reed.co.uk, continues its growth, announcing two key appointments.

Matt Wisniewski joins reed.co.uk to head up the Advertising Agency sales team. Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and contacts, with an agency background gained in the online recruitment industry.

Simon Foord has vast experience gained in regional press roles across the UK and will spearhead reed.co.uk’s operation in the Midlands.

reed.co.uk continues to recruit across all areas of its business, with roles currently available in telesales, field sales, marketing, web development and design.

Martin Warnes, Managing Director at reed.co.uk, comments:

“reed.co.uk’s client base across the UK has grown enormously over the last two years and we now look forward to working with Matt, Simon and other talented individuals in delivering the best possible campaigns for our clients.”

reed.co.uk continues to be the UK’s biggest and most visited commercial job site, featuring more than 95,000 vacancies and with a bigger market share of traffic than Monster, Jobsite or Totaljobs (Hitwise, July 2009).

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reed.co.uk leads the market in traffic driving success

Leading online recruitment service, reed.co.uk, continued to be the UK’s most visited commercial job site in July 2009.

Figures released by industry-recognised traffic measurement company, Hitwise, show that reed.co.uk received a greater market share of visits than Monster, Jobsite or Totaljobs for nine of the last ten months.

Mark Rhodes, Head of Marketing at reed.co.uk, comments:

“Driving jobseekers to reed.co.uk is not only fundamental to our success, but to the success of the thousands of recruiters who benefit from reed.co.uk everyday.”

“We go to great lengths to ensure we attract the broadest range of the most relevant jobseekers and have worked hard to raise the profile of reed.co.uk to its current level. We’re fully committed to growing jobseeker traffic further in the coming weeks and months.”

reed.co.uk recently ran outdoor advertising across London and the South East, complemented by a wide-ranging digital campaign. The activity carried a positive theme, focusing on the high number of vacancies still available across the UK, despite the prevailing economic conditions.

Rhodes continues:

“There are more people seeking work in the UK currently than there have been for a number of years. It’s our job to make sure we guide jobseekers to the most fruitful source vacancies – and that’s reed.co.uk.”

reed.co.uk continues to grow as a business and is currently hiring in sales, marketing and technical development.

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reed.co.uk launches recession-busting packages for recruitment agencies

Leading online recruitment service, reed.co.uk, has launched a range of new packages, created exclusively for the recruitment industry.

The packages, which include a variety of reed.co.uk’s most popular features, have been designed to give recruitment agencies of all sizes access to the full range of benefits offered by the UK’s biggest commercial job site.

Martin Warnes, Managing Director of reed.co.uk, explains:

“It’s no secret that the recruitment industry has been affected by the economic situation. We’re keen to work with our clients to help them continue to deliver an effective recruitment service and are responding with a series of high value product bundles at a highly competitive cost.”

The packages, which can be ordered online, come with a range of flexible payment options, including the facility to pay by Direct Debit, attracting a discount of 10%.

Warnes continues:

“With this launch, we have a subscription plan to suit every recruitment business. Each one includes a generous provision of job postings, as well as access to reed.co.uk’s 1.4 million-strong CV database, with prices starting from as little as £300 a month.”

reed.co.uk will continue to offer its celebrated Freecruitment service, giving recruitment agencies the facility to post up to 50 jobs per year for free. The new packages will add upgraded job listing features, CV Search access and branding opportunities.

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