Jobs website hits new heights

9:55am Monday 10th April 2006

AN authoritative new survey has revealed that fish4jobs, the recruitment website that's part owned by the Bishop's Stortford Citizen, attracts more jobseekers than any other online job's site in the UK with over 1.6 million people visiting per month.

The NORAS 2006 survey (National Online Recruitment Audience Survey) also shows that fish4jobs is attracting more and more users from all walks of life and job types.

fish4jobs.co.uk, which carries over 40,000 job adverts at any one time powers the jobs search' section on www.guardian-series.co.uk, this newspaper's local website.

Job vacancies advertised come from all industry sectors, but fish4 particularly specialise in the following areas - retail, sales, engineering, customer service, call centre, construction, driving and IT.

Fish4jobs put their success down to being a big nationwide brand that thinks and acts locally. This means that because they carry more jobs across all parts of the country than anyone else, readers and internet users in the Epping Forest district can access hundreds of local vacancies simply by logging onto www.guardian-series.co.uk.

Sean Mahon, fish4's marketing director, summed up fish4's approach saying: Many other generalist internet job sites tend to carry a heavy weighting of jobs for London and the south east of England.

"At fish4jobs we pride ourselves on carrying a multitude of vacancies all over the UK. Our local strength is reflected by the increases in the amount of jobseekers that are searching for jobs on fish4 from all over the country, from big cities to rural areas. Not only that, but more and more candidates are registering their CV with us so that recruiters can find them.' The NORAS research also reveals the growing popularity of the internet as a medium of choice for everyday people who are job-hunting.

For example, reflecting the changing employment landscape in the UK, 19 per cent of job seekers are using fish4jobs to find a part-time job. Sixty per cent of those on fish4jobs are female and 61 per cent of users are aged between 16 and 34.

All candidates are big readers of the local press which is not surprising as fish4 advertise in local papers, including this one regularly. Finally, and most importantly, the survey found that nearly 50 per cent of fish4job users have successfully found a job on the website.

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