Madgex news

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. 
 

We are delighted to announce the launch of Guardian Jobs' new CV Search and Match site, CVMatch. Madgex have been working with Guardian Jobs since 2007, when we redesigned jobs.guardian.co.uk to offer a market leading online platform. The site is one of the top 5 UK jobs sites.

As a leader in the online recruitment market, The Guardian is constantly looking at new ways to benefit job seekers and help them find the right job. CVMatch offers users a simple method to upload their CV and create a profile with privacy controls, allowing candidates to configure CV access down to a recruiter level. The content is automatically extracted and placed into the correct form fields, saving users substantial effort, enhancing the site’s conversion rates and ensuring the database is filled with high quality structured data.

CVMatch offers a comprehensive search 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 quick and accurate buying decisions.

Centaur, one of the UK's leading specialist and business publishers has launched CareerCV, the latest site to feature our (new) CV Search & Match platform.

CareerCV acts as a CV matching portal for a number of Centaurs premier brands including Marketing Week, Creative Review, Design Week, New Media Age and Madjobs. CareerCV uses specialist technology to intelligently match job seekers and recruiters, helping job seekers find the best jobs and recruiters find the best candidates.

The site provides Centaur with a valuable new revenue stream and a key competitive advantage, by allowing recruiters to view more information than previously for an informed purchase. This also benefits candidates by allowing their CVs to be found more easily.

Tim Potter, Managing Director of Business Publishing at Centaur commented:

“We are delighted with the initial feedback to the CareerCV launch across our marketing and creative jobsites.  The service is already attracting high quality candidates, who are creating career profiles that we believe will be very valuable to recruiters. The launch has reinforced our view that CareerCV will play a key role in the development of our major job sites.”

Centaur has been active in the job board market for several years and has a long history with Madgex, who have provided both editorial and job board solutions for their niche publishing titles. Centaur is renowned for their range of design and marketing publications as well as engineering and legal titles.
 

Madgex, in association with Abacus e-Media, are running a free breakfast seminar in the Law Society’s Hall, Chancery Lane from 9-11am on 20 January 2010.

With industry case studies led by David Archer - Managing Director, Scottish Television, we are welcoming directors and senior decision makers who have responsibility for maximising the effectiveness and profitability of their brand and digital communities via their online presence.

In what Time magazine called ‘the decade from hell’, media and publishing companies have had some of the front seats on the economic roller coaster. This seminar shows you how organisations with strong brands and engaged communities can relatively easily implement the tools to introduce new online revenue models with rapid ROI, as well as rapidly cutting costs through streamlining production and editorial processes.

For more information about this event please click here (PDF).

If you would like to attend you can book here.
 

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Madgex are happy to announce the launch of People Management Jobs, the online recruitment magazine site for the CIPD.

CIPD is Europe's largest professional body for HR professionals with over 135,000 members. People Management Jobs is the online recruitment site for People Management magazine, the UK's leading human resources magazine

Madgex secured the project after a competitive pitch process, based on our platform's features and functionality. As with many of our clients, particular focus was placed on user experience to make it as simple as possible for job seekers to find relevant jobs. Functionality such as faceted and radial search allows users to create job alerts by email and RSS feeds based on their personal job preferences. This method of user engagement can radically increase traffic to the job board and maintains jobseeker contact, without users having to continually visit the site to search for jobs.

The site includes the Madgex job widget, allowing job data to be syndicated and published on other web sites. This helps to broaden the reach of job postings beyond the source site, resulting in more job seekers finding relevant jobs and generating more traffic to People Management Jobs.

Europe-Unlimited, Europe’s leading event organisers for investors and technology companies, revealed that Madgex, a leading software company based in Brighton, has been selected in its 2009 Tech Media Invest Top 100 list.

Tech Media Invest Top 100, in association with The Guardian, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little, is a list of the hottest emerging and most innovative companies in the ever converging tech and media industries. Simon Conroy, CEO of Madgex said; ‘We are delighted to have been chosen as a key UK company for the future in the Tech Media Invest Top 100 list. This achievement reinforces our mission to be the most successful global provider of trusted online recruitment solutions and software’.

William Stevens, CEO of Europe Unlimited commented “The Tech Media Invest 100 aims to showcase young entrepreneurial companies that are developing innovative new ways to serve business and consumers and have the potential to radically change the shape of the technology and media industry. Some companies may go on to be the leaders of tomorrow and others may falter, but we certainly think these companies have potential and look forward to seeing how they monetise their innovation.”

The Tech Media Invest Advisory Board deployed a detailed process to whittle down a pool of eligible, promising companies to get to the top 100 winners. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

The results were moderated by the Board which consisted of some of the UK’s most experienced investors in modern technology and media - a mix of venture capitalists, investment analysts, professional advisers and technology lawyers, who applied their expertise to identify the best performers and the ones to watch.

For information on companies go to www.e-unlimited.com/tmi

Along with fellow leading publishing industry player SiftGroups, we are running a free breakfast Seminar in London on the 6^th October.

In the pure ‘for profit’ world corporations are recognising that if they are to survive and prosper they need to listen and actively respond to their customers. If they do not treat their customers as partners in their business they will lose their custom to those competitors who do. The same has to be true for member organisations.

Openly working with your members not only retains their commitment to you but also provides genuine revenue-earning opportunities.

The combined experience of Madgex and SiftGroups in both the not-for-profit and commercial sectors provides a unique insight into how you can benefit from a genuine customer-focussed approach by building an engagement strategy rather than a marketing strategy.

For those with a little more time, we will be holding breakout sessions immediately after the briefing, answering questions from the morning.

For more information about this event please click here.  

If you are interested in attending, you can book here.

We are happy to announce the launch of the Middle East job board AMEinfo.com Jobs. AME Info is part of Emap and is one of the leading Middle East business news websites providing editorial content for 1.6m unique readers each month.

Madgex’s web extraction service allows AME Info to syndicate opportunities to their sister site Meed.com, based on what a recruiter has paid for. The major benefit is the delivery of extra revenues from jobs that appear outside of the job board on the syndicated site.

Our user experience focus meant we were able to deliver a job board that lowers the barriers for job seekers to find relevant jobs. Our platform's faceted navigation feature displays the availability of jobs within selected categories, ensuring a user’s search never ends with no jobs available.