Madgex news

Madgex is proud to announce the launch of CV Magnet from STV Jobs, the latest job board to integrate Madgex CV Search & Match software. 

CV Magnet is off to a fantastic start, with nearly 1000 new CVs uploaded to the site in the first 24 hours, an incredible achievement.

CV Magnet, which was soft-launched on 3rd August, is a faster and easier way for job seekers to market themselves on STV Jobs, the online recruitment service from Scottish broadcaster STV, with thousands of recruiters across Scotland set to search the database to find their ideal candidate.
Key features include a tool for job seekers to track how many times their CV has been viewed or downloaded from the site, and the opportunity to upload CVs in a variety of formats or to import from online sources such as LinkedIn. The simple upload process has been carefully designed to make it as easy as possible for job seekers to create an optimised profile that can easily be found by relevant recruiters. Job seekers remain firmly in control of their privacy via settings that determine the visibility of their information within the CV database, including the ability to “hide” their profile from specific recruiters.

The CV Magnet service will open to recruiters in September. Recruiters will be able to search candidate profiles to make quick and accurate buying decisions saving time and money. There are also options to locate suitable candidates based on a job description, or even another CV document. Search results display an anonymous full CV view and include a percentage score based on the search criteria.

STV Jobs originally launched on the Madgex job board platform in February 2009 and has since established a dominant position in the Scottish online recruitment market. Each month STV Jobs attracts 1.5 million unique users, 93% of these within Scotland.

Mike Ferguson, Head of Classified at STV, said: "We've had a great response since we introduced CV Magnet, with nearly 1000 new CVs uploaded already. The new and improved database provides job seekers with an even quicker and more user friendly way to showcase themselves to potential employees, giving recruiters across the country a better chance to find their perfect match. We will shortly reveal more features, including powerful search functions for recruiters.”

http://jobs.stv.tv/cv/

Madgex is delighted to announce that Brand Republic Jobs has moved to the latest version of the specialist job board software from Madgex.

Brand Republic Jobs, from Haymarket Business Media, is the leading source marketing jobs, advertising jobs, media jobs and design jobs across the creative sectors, including marketing jobs in London and throughout the UK.

Brand Republic Jobs now incorporates Madgex’s CV Search & Match software, designed to maximise sales and profitability. CV Search & Match maximises candidate acquisition rates by providing a range of fast and intuitive methods for jobseekers to upload their CV and profile. This data is automatically extracted and placed into a structured data format, saving jobseekers substantial effort, enhancing the site’s conversion rates and ensuring the database is filled with high quality structured data.

CV Search & Match provides a comprehensive search and browse experience for recruiters, allowing them to find candidates using methods that suit their way of working. It also provides enough information about the jobseeker for the recruiter to make informed buying decisions. CV Search & Match provides recruiters with faceted navigation and powerful search tools, enabling them to more easily identify relevant jobseekers. Recruiters can search, sort and filter CVs using a wide range of attributes without having to sign-up or register on the site.

Attracting an average of over 67,000* jobseekers on a monthly basis, Brand Republic Jobs has also seen the number of jobseeker registrations increase by over 53%* in the last 12 months. The number of job applications has also increased by over 12%* across the same period.

Building on the existing success of Brand Republic Jobs, these changes will further improve and develop the user experience, for both jobseekers and recruiters alike, offering additional new benefits to both.

Brand Republic Jobs is the third of Haymarket Business Media’s specialist job sites to move to this new platform and continues the ongoing programme, which will see all of Haymarket’s sites migrating to this new version by the end of 2010.

David Griffith, Associate Online Publisher at Haymarket, commented ‘The opportunities that the new platform offers Brand Republic Jobs and all of our other specialist job sites allows us to enhance our specialist recruitment business and continue to offer the best online recruitment and job-seeking experience. It also clearly demonstrates our continued investment in and development of our specialist online recruitment services’

Simon Conroy, CEO at Madgex, added ‘We are delighted to work collaboratively with Haymarket Business Media to develop their online recruitment business. Our aim is to help jobseekers find the best jobs and recruiters to find the best candidates by delivering inspirational and innovative digital recruitment solutions. This is reflected in our development of the user experience, addition of new features, refinement of revenue opportunities that benefit Haymarket and help define their recruitment strategy’.

http://jobs.brandrepublic.com/

*All stats HBX June 2009 – June 2010

Event Job Search has moved to the latest version of the specialist job board software from Madgex.

Event Job Search is the first of Haymarket Business Media specialist job sites to move to this new platform and represents the start of a roll out programme which will see all of Haymarket’s sites migrating to this new version by the end of September 2010.

This move is designed to further maximise the quantity and quality of opportunities available to both the job seeker and the recruiter alike by helping to improve and develop the user experience even further whilst continuing to offer new features to the recruiter.

The motivation to improve the functionality and user experience of Event Job Search is a result of Haymarket’s continuing investment in their specialist online recruitment service and the ongoing commitment to provide the best possible experience for both the job seeker and recruiter alike.

For the jobseeker, Event Job Search is now even more straightforward to use – building on the existing market leading functionality it is now even easier for people to find and apply to jobs that match their search criteria. The key changes include:

• Comprehensive search and browse – both simple and advanced search options which enables jobseekers to find the right jobs using a method that suits them.
• Complete site redesign – providing an intuitive, barrier free user experience based on tried and tested usability best practice.
• Suggested vacancies – highlights other relevant jobs to the jobseeker based on previous search history – designed to increase both the volume and relevancy of applications.
• Passive user registration – creates automatic user accounts for all job seekers when they apply for a job – removing any further barriers to conversion!

For the recruiter the new site more advanced targeting opportunities allowing them to reach:

• A more engaged and relevant job seeker audience.
• Increased ability to target both active and passive job seekers with a relevant range of targeted and branded advertising options.
• Further segmentation and targeting options based on user information.

David Griffith online publisher at Haymarket commented "The opportunities that the new Madgex platform offers Event Job Search and all of our other specialist job boards allow us to enhance our specialist recruitment business and allow us to provide market leading functionality to our users. The move represents our desire to provide the best online recruitment and job seeking experience and clearly illustrates how we listen to and respond to the needs and demands of all the markets that we operate in."


Simon Conroy, CEO Madgex added "We are delighted that we have been able to work closely with Haymarket to develop their online recruitment business. Our aim is to provide help job seekers find the best jobs and recruiters the best candidates by delivering inspirational and innovative digital recruitment solutions and this is reflected in our development of the user experience, addition of new features, refinement of revenue opportunities that benefit Haymarket and help define their recruitment strategy."

Job board specialist Madgex is delighted to announce the re-launch of jobs.travelweekly.co.uk the latest site using the award winning Madgex job board platform.

The move is part of Travel Weekly Group’s vision to be the market leading web site of choice for travel, hospitality and leisure industry recruitment. They plan to take their brand from being a travel agent and tour operator B2B portal and expand it across other industries and recruitment markets, including the B2C arena.

In order to achieve this goal Travel Weekly Group recognised the need for a complete overhaul of Travel Weekly and its associated job site. This prompted the move to engage Madgex to create a premium job board service to achieve their vision for the future.

The Madgex job board platform offered the relevant tools for extending the reach of Travel Weekly’s brand, including the ability to create affiliate and mini-sites, along with job widgets and RSS feeds to increase visibility extending their online presence and driving traffic. Job seekers can apply for jobs and create email alerts without having to register, helping to increase application rates and drive traffic to the site. The evolving core platform ensure that jobs.travelweekly.co.uk remains at the cutting edge of job board technology and benefits from the Madgex development road map.

The Madgex platform offers many advantages to job board owners; delivered via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, costs are minimised by including future innovations and platform updates for no extra cost for the life of the contract. To help maximise revenues, extensive sales inventory and reporting provide compelling data on the performance of all jobs on the site. This helps a job board improve their application conversion rates, something that Madgex constantly strives to improve based on rigourous testing of usability, design and SEO, helping to remove barriers to applications and target advertising more effectively.

Simon Ferguson, CEO of TWgroup commented, "Recruitment within travel is a real growth area and it was key for us to find a partner that could help us take our exisitng jobs user base and take it to the next level. TWgroup is committed to providing the best possible solution for both candidates and employers and we truly believe Madgex will help us realise these ambitions."

http://jobs.travelweekly.co.uk/

Madgex have been at the forefront of cutting edge online recruitment technology for the last 10 years.  On 27th of April we hosted our first Future Innovations seminar to openly discuss the technologies we believe will impact the online recruitment industry in the next 12 months. We felt truly privileged by our attendee list which included numerous influential figures from within the publishing and recruitment market.

Over the last few months the Madgex development team has been researching heavily into which technologies will benefit the recruitment process ranging from social media through to mobile devices. We have been closely monitoring our job board network to analyse changing patterns and trends affected by job seekers adopting devices like the iPhone. Having identified some of the key elements we wanted to examine the effects and present our findings.

Simon Conroy kicked of proceedings by welcoming our guests and summarising the importance of breaking down the barriers to new technologies which benefits job seekers and technology providers. Dr Harry Brignull our Head of User Experience then discussed how the adoption of smart phones has fundamentally changed how users access web content. Harry clearly illustrated how over the last 6 months mobile web traffic to the Madgex job board network has dramatically increased and stressed the importance of proving a multi-channel platform to job seekers. This was echoed by Tom Ricca-McCarthy our Global Sales Director who discussed how disruption in the mobile space and social media are changing application usage and expectations. This prompted Madgex to develop a desktop app that job seekers search across multiple job boards.

Next up Dan Meadows, Commercial Director analysed statics generated across a range or sites on the Madgex job board platform. The key findings centre around the sources of application rates and how applying advertising up sells can radically improve application uplifts. Finally, Glenn Jones our Technical Director spoke about social media connectivity and the issues this raises by blending a professional social networking experience with a traditional job board. This concept lead to the creation of ConnectedCV a new CV syncing and aggregation service for job seekers.

Since the event the feedback we received has been overwhelming and speaks volumes in relation to the value placed on sharing knowledge with our peers.

“Very useful and interesting seminar and rare these days to attend an event which isn't comprised of un-vetted speakers and speeches promoting self interests! Excellent.” Steve Playford FT.com

We will be holding further events dedicated to sharing our latest findings on new technology innovations. If you are interested in taking part then please contact us on 01273 775100 or email info@madgex.com

Leading job board specialist Madgex is delighted to announce the launch of the first market research jobs app for the iPhone for the Market Research Society.

From 20th April the new Research Jobfinder app will be downloadable free from Apple’s App Store.  Users can view full details of each job advertised through the Research Jobfinder site, mark interesting opportunities and forward information and links via email.  The app will also enable users to save search criteria and filter jobs by title, salary and location, for easy browsing.

This marks the first step of Madgex’s move into the mobile space with further apps currently in development. User experience was at the heart of the powerful search functionality, replicating online search tools familiar to job seekers.  The search feature harnesses the full power of the Madgex job board’s internal data structures yielding more accurate search results. The Madgex iPhone app fully integrates with any existing Madgex job platform, ensuring accurate tracking on application usage and trends.

The free Research Jobfinder app has been designed to help job seekers in the research and insight sectors to access the latest employment opportunities as soon as they are announced. The app is fully branded and aligned with the Research Jobfinder job board activities, offering users a seamless experience on both platforms.

Simon Conroy, CEO of Madgex commented “The launch of our iPhone app shows Madgex’s further commitment to the mobile space. From the outset, the aim was to emulate the functionality and quality of our award winning job boards.  Madgex is currently developing a new premium iPhone app offering exciting new functionality to enhance the job seekers’ experience. Alongside iPhone apps we are also researching new apps for Android and Blackberry phones.”

The Research Jobfinder service was launched by Madgex in June 2009 at www.research-live.com. Since then it has seen a massive 120% increase in monthly job applications as recruiters and job seekers recognise the strength of its enhanced service.

Jennifer Sproul, Sales & Marketing Director at Research, explains: “With the employment market starting to move again, employers and job seekers want to keep ahead of the curve.  16 million people in the UK now access the internet via their mobile, ensuring they are on the front foot in all their communication.  Being able to access job opportunities via your iPhone, while on the move, makes sure you are always the first to know.  We’re very excited to be launching such a valuable recruitment tool to the research market.”

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We were delighted to learn that Guardian Jobs, one of the UK’s leading job sites, broke the 2 million users a month barrier during January 2010. This demonstrates just how successful the site has become with 2,006,246 users recording a staggering 20,870,445 page impressions. They were also credited as a Hitwise Top 10 Award winner for the period between July - December 2009.

The continued success of Guardian jobs is due to offering users a wide range of jobs across various sectors. This increases the chances of job seekers being able to find relevant job opportunities. They also benefit from a large resource of candidates that attracts recruiters who are keen to engage the best talent in the job market.

Earlier this year in January Guardian Jobs launched a new service for job seekers, CVMatch, which runs on the Madgex CV Search and Match platform. CVMatch offers job seekers an alternative method to find their next job opportunity. Candidates upload their CV, create a profile and set their privacy settings then recruiters search the database against a CV or job description to find the ideal match. 

Source: ABCe Jan 2010

Madgex are happy to announce the launch of the Backing Young Britain job site, a government funded campaign with Reed in Partnership, to provide increased employment opportunities for young people.

Reed in Partnership, part of the Reed group of companies, is one of the largest Welfare to Work providers in the UK. Reed in Partnership was selected as preferred bidder for a new Government initiative being driven by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The campaign will be providing up to 20,000 internship places and 5,000 work experience places for unemployed 18-24 year olds across the UK who have not been to university.

Madgex worked closely with Reed in Partnership to tight deadlines to deliver a highly customised job board which launched just 5 weeks after signing the contract. This was not the first time Madgex have been required to deliver a project so quickly, but due to investment in our core platform we met the challenge.  

The Backing Young Britain website was carefully designed to ensure its user interface is intuitive and easy to use, including the ability for users to create accounts, shortlist vacancies, upload a CV and create a profile. The site enables Jobcentre Plus Advisors to interact with customers over the web and offer additional information about available vacancies to job seekers.

The reasoning behind the campaign is a lack of job opportunities within the labour market for young people during the recession. The Backing Young Britain campaign brings together business, public sector organisations and the voluntary sector to provide more opportunities for young people. They ask employers to consider how they can offer opportunities through apprenticeships, work experience or employment. Hundreds of employers, large and small, are backing the campaign.