What do you pay for advertising job vacancies?

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Kat27Bro

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    Good evening,
    I am looking for information in regards to what people pay for advertising 'job vacancies'.

    What have you paid for advertising a job vacancy in a monthly publication or newspaper?

    What do you look for when choosing the right place to advertise your job vacancies?

    This information will help me greatly.

    Thanks

    Katie
     
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    Techy

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    Job centre does it for me everytime, as it's pot luck at the interview stage and not worth shelling out any money for.

    Just make sure your employment contract has 6months probationary, so you can get shot of losers.

    Actually tried a recruitment agency for my last employee and they promised me the world but sent candidates who have only just started the relevant course! Keep the 18% you would typically pay them and use this to make sure the job centre person is adequate, that way you try them yourself opposed to someone trying to flog them to you which you would be tied too.
     
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    Kat27Bro

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    We have a job section and the adverts start from £10 per month up to £350 per month for a full page advert. In addition, each advert comes with a free listing on the job section of our Livertise Online site. Our magazine is distributed widely throughout Liverpool for maximum coverage, so I believe this is a great way for businesses to get their job adverts seen.

    Our magazine is a community magazine so its important that we feature a job section.

    If anyone is interested in placing a job advert in our Livertise magazine, you can view all the details at www.brookfield-jones.com Our service comes with many additional features and benefits.

    We are a professional and friendly advertising business and aim to get the best coverage for our clients adverts, both online and in print.

    Katie
    Brookfield-Jones Advertising
     
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    mubin

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    Techy said:
    Job centre does it for me everytime, as it's pot luck at the interview stage and not worth shelling out any money for.

    Just make sure your employment contract has 6months probationary, so you can get shot of losers.

    Actually tried a recruitment agency for my last employee and they promised me the world but sent candidates who have only just started the relevant course! Keep the 18% you would typically pay them and use this to make sure the job centre person is adequate, that way you try them yourself opposed to someone trying to flog them to you which you would be tied too.
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    That must have been a horrible recruitment agency. Charging 18% and not delivering candidates with experience?
     
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    Techy said:
    Job centre does it for me everytime, as it's pot luck at the interview stage and not worth shelling out any money for.

    Just make sure your employment contract has 6months probationary, so you can get shot of losers.

    Actually tried a recruitment agency for my last employee and they promised me the world but sent candidates who have only just started the relevant course! Keep the 18% you would typically pay them and use this to make sure the job centre person is adequate, that way you try them yourself opposed to someone trying to flog them to you which you would be tied too.
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    Not all agencies charge 18% and if you know your market, negotiate on fees ;)
     
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    Kat27Bro

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    My aim is to give local businesses the opportunity to have other means of advertising their job vacancies.

    Our Livertise magazine will be circulated widely throughout Liverpool as promised and by doing so I am hoping to gain high readership levels over time.

    Its important to me as a business owner, that I give my clients as well as my readers the service that they need. That is why I am including 'job section'. I don't want to limit the advertising space in the magazine just to promoting businesses, I also want my clients to use our services for other means such as recruitment. Brookfield-Jones Advertising has been established to help businesses to get the advertising they need, and I hope I have many happy customers in the years to come.

    Katie
    Brookfield-Jones Advertising
     
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    Local papers all seem to charge premium rates for job ads and there's no guraantee they'll work for you. their rates also mean you either get a tiny ad which can make your company look like its not worth bothering with or a huge dent in your bank balance. One way around this is to stick with lineage (not only because its cheaper but also because you're not competing with size of ad and seruious job hunters read classifieds rather than opportunists. I also use websites like fish4 jobs or monster but they only produce a limited response rate, as do newspapers!
    For the best results, I hate to say, try employment agencies but watch out for unscrupulous ones who'll poach the staff once theyve been with you 4 or 5 months as they can put them fwd to other co's and get paid all over again! Also remeber to negotiate hard with them don't pay the first fee they offer - they all negotiate (if u don't get 35% discount on their std rates walk away -they'll ring you back)

    good luck
     
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    gillhunt

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    It surely depends what you're looking for! I think local papers are shooting themselves in the foot - we were asked for £600 to place an ad in one of the larger circulation locals - it included an ad on their website but they weren't willing to negotiate a deal for just the print or just the web.

    For basic staff I'm sure job centre is fine -but unlikely to be any good for experienced prfessionals. We at Skillfair take adverts for freelancers/consultants - first ad is free, multiple ads £20 each. And we send the ad to people who will be interested rather than having it sit there waiting for someone to find it. Works very well for higher level people and specialists.

    The agency response quoted sounds fairly typical. Also worth remembering that the big agencies get ridiculous discounts on the major job sites compared to the prices quoted to small biz.

    good luck with finding the people you need!
     
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    The job centre is good at finding people but you do have to sift through a lot of applications that are not right for the job which can be time consuming.

    Someone else on here mentioned the gumtree. I am taking on an apprentice and the training company who is dealing with it is also putting and managing an ad on gumtree for me, for free. I have heard the gumtree mentioned a few times now so it might well be gaining some momentum. I'll post back when I get any feedback.

    I have had a lot of experience hiring through agencies and they really should be your last resort if you are small. They typically charge around 20% for placing someone, have no real loyalty to you (IE most of them are getting their commission and ringing your staff in 6 months time to get them into another job!!) and you have to take the risk on the employee, probation or not.

    Don't forget you can get a lot of success advertsing on your own website and of course networking has found me loads of people who are looking for a new role.

    Hope this helps.
     
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    For higher calibre jobs the Independent's jobs supplement is pretty effective (and gets the job listed on their recruitment site too).

    I generally try and avoid recruitment agents like the plague - especially now that jobs are thin on the ground and they are even more agressive than ever.

    I run a PR and Marketing freelance website if you are looking for Marcomms people ;)!!

    Regards
     
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    Local Champion

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    Hi,
    I can assist with the provision of cost effective Job Advertising using 11 (eleven) of the top internet Recruitment websites:
    CWJobs, Totaljobs, Fish4jobs, Office Recruit, The Ladders, Reed, Hotonline, S1jobs, Monster, Simply Online, Jobsite.

    I can provide coverage on all of these sites for a simple cost of £75 plus vat per vacancy. This is superb value and cheaper than you can get some of them individually.

    If anyone would like to know more or you would like to place a vacancy give me a call:
    Kevin Curtis,
    Regional Advertising Company
    Tel 01332 293330


    I look forward to being of assistance.
     
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    Kat27Bro

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    Hi Maggie,
    Its a magazine that I am actually publishing, and we are including a job section.
    I thought I would put a post on here to see what people look for when choosing where to advertise their jobs.
    Our adverts prices range from £10 per month upto £240 per month (for a full page).
    Thanks
    Katie
    Brookfield-Jones Advertising
     
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