iTWire expands jobs business with new technology

Stan Beer
Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:15

IT Industry - Market

iTWire has upped the ante in technology recruitment with a significant expansion of its jobs and recruitment business, JobsWire, including the integration of innovative technology in the company’s new jobs board. The new enhancements include a unique skills based search facility with additional new services soon to come online. Further information about this exciting new development in the jobs space can be found here.

The iTWire JobsWire service was launched as an experiment at the beginning of 2006 and has grown steadily in terms of features and traffic since that time. A number of exciting new announcements are in the pipeline.

iTWire is the first company in the rapidly expanding online jobs and recruitment industry to introduce its unique skills-based jobs board technology, described as ‘revolutionary’ by iTWire CEO, Mark Hosking.

“At JobsWire, we have moved beyond the simplistic listing of jobs by broad categories, as you see on other jobs boards, to an innovative system which defines jobs by technology-type, or skills-tags,” Mark Hosking said.

“This will be of enormous benefit to recruiters and job seekers alike, eliminating the frustration of a more general system of broader categorisation. For instance, instead of simply listing a job under the broad category of ‘internet software developer’, a recruiter or employer listing on JobsWire could attribute the skills tags of ‘.NET, ASP, C++ or MS-SQL to that particular job.”

A visitor to the JobsWire jobs site can obtain a quick snapshot of what skills are in demand simply by glancing at the alphabetically listed skills tags. The more in demand a skill, the larger the tag appears. Visitors simply click on a tag to view a list of all jobs that have requested that particular skill.

Strategically placed job ads located within great IT content has proven to be a real winner,” said Amanda Miles, marketing manager at Paxus, one of Australia’s largest technology recruiters.

“For Paxus it’s about connecting IT People with great IT jobs, so we have been delighted with the increased unique visitors to www.paxus.com.au that can be directly attributed to the branding and job advertising on the iTWire site.

“Presenting jobs by skills is also an easy way to find jobs that suit and complement the skills of the IT job seeker. Traditional search methods, like having to select a number of mandatory search fields just slows up the job search for an IT professional. I like the way iTWire is thinking about what appeals to an IT professional and what could make their job search easier and more effective. Combining targeted content is just very clever and will be a clear winner in the eyes of an IT job seeker,” Ms Miles added.

Mark Hosking said: “We’ve looked very closely at the way job candidates ‘sell’ themselves and overwhelmingly they define themselves by the technology they use. With our skills tags system candidates benefit from a much more efficient, targeted job search facility and recruiters benefit with applicants more closely matching the skills and requirements of a particular job.”

iTWire launched its JobsWire service in 2006, specialising in IT and telecommunications recruitment, as a service to recruiters and employers and to give them the benefit of flow-through traffic from its news and information portal (www.itwire.com.au). iTWire attracts an average of 1.2 million visitors a month and readership has grown significantly since the JobsWire service was originally launched as a free service.

“JobsWire is no longer a free service but we can now deliver enormous value and benefits to recruiters and employers with our new jobs board. We’re the only online recruitment service that delivers thousands of technology professionals, who are visiting iTWire daily, and exposes them to the job listings and brands of our recruitment clients,” says Mr Hosking.

The integration of a technology news and information portal with a specialist technology jobs board and recruitment business gives iTWire the ability to deliver a unique service and the same level of benefits and features to both the major recruitment firms and smaller to medium recruiters specialising in technology. Features of the new jobs board include:

    * A unique sponsored banner and brand advertising system which drives traffic from news stories to job ads
    * Indexing of JobsWire listed jobs by the major search engines like Google
    * A ‘guest apply only’ facility where candidates manually apply for each job and which reduces ‘noise’ from candidates who ‘CV bomb” using a 1-step apply button found on other jobs boards
    * Daily ‘Job Alerts’ with subscribed candidates receiving a daily email listing new jobs matching their own search criteria plus the latest IT&T news from iTWire

JobsWire is a revolutionary step in delivering quality candidates to employers, while providing technology professionals with the best possible way to match their skills with the right job.