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      Wednesday, 17th July | Soho Hotel, 4 Richmond Mews, London, W1D 3DH In our latest Future Innovations event we will be shining the spotlight on our latest research & development concepts. In the session we will be covering a number of topics including responsive design, improvements to recruiter services, content integration and analytic insights. With the online recruitment landscape continually changing we will take an in-depth look at some of the new services… read more

Morning madness My working day usually starts at about 8:30, where I’m usually greeted by a hundred or more emails of varying importance. Before I delve into those, I must first check all the monitoring systems to ensure there are no pressing issues to deal with. That generally consists of a few different web pages and a dashboard, as well as a selection of the emails. Today has started well, so I only have a… read more

When people ask me what I do, and I say I’m a “Software Developer”, they seem fairly impressed yet not entirely sure what it means. Even my parents still can’t quite grasp what it is I do. They know I’m good with computers and also useful for any technical issues they have (a hazard of the job, much like a doctor or car mechanic I imagine). So for both their sake and yours I’ll attempt… read more

Mobile recruitment is one of the most hotly discussed topics within the online recruitment landscape. Whenever I attend a conference or trade show any session relating to mobile is full to capacity with people eager to learn about the latest trends, success stories and advancement in technology. With sales of smartphone and tablet devices accelerating rapidly and new devices constantly launched into the market, mobile is clearly a vitally important channel for all job board… read more

When I used to get home from work in the evening my young daughter would often ask me, in her sweetest voice, “So what did you do today, Daddy?” Now she’s a teenager she’s more likely to shorten that to “So what?”, in a slightly less sweeter voice – and that’s usually two seconds after I’ve started to try and tell her. Well, I can hardly blame her, I sometimes wonder myself what I’ve actually… read more

Web accessibility issues often come in and out of focus according to media attention but it’s something that we at Madgex have a continuing commitment to. As a part of this we provide a document for our clients to helps maintain a level of accessibility on a job board. As the providers of a service we have the responsibility to make these services as accessible as possible but also to provide support and promote awareness… read more

Wednesday, 12th December, 2012 | Sanctum Hotel, 20 Warwick Street, Soho, London, W1B 5NF As part of our ongoing series of events, Madgex are hosting an event aimed at discussing statistics and strategy from within our client base. This event will be a mix of external and Madgex speakers discussing benchmarking statistics, trends of 2012, the future going forward and strategy of some recruitment sites. This event is free to attend for all Madgex clients.… read more

Recently I came across the Kano model (bought to my attention by a User Experience colleague). It’s a model developed in the 1980s by Japanese professor Noriaka Kano to measure the product development and customer satisfaction. At the moment I’m carrying out some research with the objective of enhancing our Recruiter Services and I thought it might be useful as an evaluation system for my research. The customer experience of a product is seen to have three attributes:… read more

Wednesday, 5th September, 2012 | Sanctum Hotel, 20 Warwick Street, Soho, London, W1B 5NF As part of our ongoing series of client events, Madgex will be hosting an interactive forum aimed at Digital Directors from across our client base. We will be discussing some of the key issues and trends effecting digital publishers from an online recruitment perspective. We will shortly be announcing full details of the full agenda and guest speakers. Who should attend?… read more

There are so many blog posts about the logistics of carrying out mobile usability testing it can be difficult to see the wood from the trees. When I was planning the testing for our new mobile web app I ended up going around in circles to research the best method and set-up to use. Mobile testing can be problematic in terms of ergonomics, cost and efficiency. We’ve done a couple of rounds of testing now… read more