Best Place to Advertise Jobs - Local Paper was hopeless

[phil battison]

Does anyone have any recent experience of advertising for staff on-line.

I ask because we recently paid a small fortune for an advert in our local newspaper (£450) and we got very few responses and only one candidate worth interviewing.

It's a good, full time job in our sales team (no cold calling) with a solid basic and good OTE but the lack of response either suggests everyone in Northampton is gainfully employed, our job was is not as attractive as we think or newspapers are no longer the best way to advertise for staff.

There seem to be lots of on-line companies that offer job advert placements but I'd welcome any recommendations. Thanks.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Have you searched for "advertising jobs on line" ?

 

[phil battison]

Yes, but a search gives you no context of how good/bad the service or results are. Prices seem to range from £99 for a month to £200 per week - having had a poor response in the local newspaper I just wondered how other people get on.

 

[vvaannmmaann]

Does your area of business have a trade magazine or web presence?

 

[MarcW]

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']We use a mixture of press and online advertising for our roles, but are very specific which roles go in the paper as locally only certain jobs will work. When we go online we don’t directly advertise on websites ourselves but engage a 3rd party to advertise our jobs online for us their service is great and the spread of online job boards used is fantastic. I feel this is great value even if we lose company branding but reach a wider audience for all our roles. If allowed I can pass on the details of this company for you[/FONT]

 

[cody44]

Have you tried the free directories?

I recently put an add in Gumtree, Viva Street and Free index. I did get a good response and it didnt cost me a penny!

 

[tasowq]

The best resource to find good employees and at the same time cut some costs, because job ads don't cost a thing on these websites. You could take for example, moazafonline.com. This website could help you find the right staff.

 

[pbcclements]

Found this very good for IT recruitment.

 

[VPA-NI]

What about the Job Centre Online.

http://www.jobcentreonline.com/JCOLFront/Home.aspx

 

[10032012]

What about the Job Centre Online.

http://www.jobcentreonline.com/JCOLFront/Home.aspx

N.I. Only. Advertising at Jobcentre could be very hit and miss. Very mixed reviews of people advertising there.

 

[Talay]

Say I lose my job today and I want another one ASAP, where am I going to look ?

If you can answer that question, your have the answer to your question.

 

[TheEngineer]

Great advice from Talay.

I work in an industry that has 2 or 3 "well known" internet sites that attract most of the job adverts. There are also a few specialist recruitment agencies (which I have not had to use yet).

It also depends on the kind of job and the pay / experience level.

As mentioned previously, try Gumtree and perhaps Craigslist - but this will exclude a chunk of people who are not "connected". How important this is depends on the job.

TE