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CV-Library support TIRA alongside other leading names in the recruitment sector, including: TheJobPost, Recruiter, APSCo and UKRecruiter.
CV-Library is continually working hard to help candidates across the UK find their next job.
Within this competitive economy, it can be more than challenging to find a job. That’s why we’re continually focusing on improving the candidate job searching experience wherever we can. Our recent milestone of 6 million CVs demonstrates how successful our job board is for job seekers across the UK.
We offer a number of features to help with job searching, including our Jobs by Email alerts and state of the art Mobile App. Jobs by Email alerts allow candidates to register their interest in a particular job title, industry and location and have jobs matching this criteria emailed directly to their inbox, ensuring they never miss out on a suitable opportunity.
As well as this, we’ve also created a number of Applications for smart phones and tablet devices to allow job seekers to search for jobs ‘on the go.’ No matter where you are; chilling on the sofa, on the train to work or walking the dog, you can stay up to date on your job search with your mobile! Whether you have an Android device, iPhone or iPad, you’ll have an abundance of jobs at your fingertips.
We interact with our candidates on a daily basis through the world of social media too. Our popular Facebook and Twitter pages allow candidates to ask us personally about any queries they may have, as well as staying up to date with the new job developments across the country.
Our search and apply tool on CV-Library.co.uk couldn’t be easier to use either; simply enter your desired job criteria and click search. Find 100s of jobs suited directly to you using location, salary, industry, keywords and contract type criteria.
Our dedicated team are continually working hard with various recruiters across the UK to advertise 1000s of jobs on CV-Library.co.uk. We currently advertise over 65,000 live jobs on our site, in over 70 different industries, so there’s always likely to be a vacancy suited to you.
Also, our CV database allows recruiters to head-hunt candidates directly. Simply registering your CV (for free) will allow 1000s of the UK’s top employers to search for candidates, just as you would for a job. Recruiters can contact you directly, meaning you’ve potentially found a job without doing anything at all!
Whether you’re looking to be a Financial Advisor, a Personal Assistant, a Sales Executive, a Beauty Therapist, a Senior Buyer, a Managing Director, a Store Manager, a Graphic Designer…the list is endless; begin your job search with the UK’s leading independent job board today.
From The Learning People
Having a project management certification on a basic level means you passed the test.
This indicates that you have definitely had some training and experience which you’ve carried with you through to the exam stage, and, more importantly, that you have the drive and dedication to complete the course in the timescale given, which is a demanding project in itself.
More and more companies are now pushing for their employed Project Managers to have a PMP certification.
It is not unheard of that if you don’t already have the qualification, a clause will be written into your hiring agreement calling for a payrise once you’ve acquired your PMP certification – an incentive to pass the course if ever we saw one!
One of the main things to remember about the project management qualification is the weight that employers place on it when looking for Project Managers.
For companies that have dozens of applicants for each available role, it’s an easier screening process for an HR department to consider only PMP qualified candidates for interview rather than looking at specific, and perhaps long-term experience in the field.
Unfortunately, this does mean that often Project Managers with many years of successful project management experience, but who have never taken the PMP qualification, are overlooked.
The following six separate, but intertwining processes are specified in the PMI:
These are invaluable core processes, because there will always be project activities that take place within each phase.
By using these 6 processes in the PMI qualification, even a beginner Project Manager can set up a project schedule shell fairly quickly if they use the correct tools.
Therefore a PMI qualification, although not essential, will open more doors to you in an increasingly pressurised professional environment.
Source: The Learning People
Find out how CV-Library supported fashion footwear brand, Gandys, with their latest recruitment drive.
The new, independent, fashion label was looking for a cost effective way to grow their company, reach a dynamic, young, forward-thinking audience and strengthen their brand. CV-Library provided them with the answer and supported them every “flip flop” step of the way…
THE CHALLENGE
Launched in January last year, footwear fashion brand Gandys offers a simple product to customers — the humble flip-flop, or ‘thong’ if you’re wearing them Down Under. However, unlike the first Ford car, they come in any colour, including black, and it seems the whole world wants them. In fact, Recruiter’s first arranged phone call with co-founder Rob Forkan had to be postponed as Gandys was launching into a number of major UK high-street stores that week and things were going “a little crazy” in his words.
The business was expanding — and obviously needed more people to help it grow.
Started by Forkan and his brother Paul, Gandys (the name comes from the phrase ‘as dry as Gandhi’s flip-flop’) was born out of a family tragedy. In 2001, rather unorthodoxly, the teenage brothers were travelling around India and South-East Asia with their parents and two younger siblings, mainly volunteering to work for charities. The family found themselves in Sri Lanka on Boxing Day 2004 — the day of the tsunami triggered by an earthquake beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean. Tragically, their parents were killed, leaving the children orphaned.
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Recent reports have revealed that 35% of all traffic CV-Library.co.uk receives is organic. This is great news for us as it means more people are finding CV-Library through natural search listings (on search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing) and our site is more visible to UK job seekers.
“One fifth of users search for CV-Library directly”
It’s important for us to continue educating job seekers about CV-Library and how easy it is to find a new job through our job site. Although many candidates will only look for a new job a handful of times during their lifetime, we want CV-Library to be at the forefront of their mind when that time comes. With one fifth of our traffic coming from users searching directly for CV-Library it’s clear that our advertising efforts are making a difference.
These results highlight how much our brand awareness has increased over the last 18 months. The launch of our huge offline marketing and TV campaign in January 2012 has definitely helped these improvements and the new re-targeting strategies we introduced online are helping people recognise the CV-Library brand.
Thanks to our team of In-House SEO Experts our organic search listings are higher than ever, helping promote brand awareness and also making ourselves more accessible to job seekers and recruiters. From a business point of view this is also fantastic for us as more users than ever are clicking on our organic search listings rather than our ‘paid for’ adverts.
We primarily focused on providing our users with a strong product, whether they are job hunting or recruiting. Now we have a fantastic job board service in place we can concentrate more on brand awareness and candidate engagement. This has helped us reach our most recent milestone of 6 million CVs (see previous blog post).
2013 is set to be another record-breaking year for CV-Library and we hope our traffic and brand awareness continues to soar until we become an established household name.
In fewer than eight months online job board, CV-Library, has exceeded all expectations and grown their database by another one million CVs.
Their database now stands at six million CVs and shows no signs of slowing down with over 201,000 unique CV registrations being recorded in January, and at least 150,000 every month since. This news follows 18 months of achievements including a recent offline marketing campaign leading to increased brand awareness and recognition from several prestigious industry awards.
Read the rest of CV-Library’s latest press release.
CV-Library is sponsoring TIRA and helping share the recruitment industry’s inside secrets into working more effectively, improving recruitment processes and how to attract talent.
What can you get from this month’s bulletin?
TIRA is produced by and for recruiters and HR professionals; their aim is to make TIRA the industry’s leading ‘free to access’ recruitment community.
Every month their panel of experts (see above) share their secrets to doing more business and offer advice on where to find the best tools and technology to support your recruitment drives. Inside the bulletins you will find all of the news headlines, a summary of the month’s recruitment news provided by TIRA Recruiter TV and sponsored by CV-Library, and a new piece on technology. There is no joining fee for this essential resource and it takes less than 20 seconds to subscribe.
TIRA’s sponsors:
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CV-Library is now working closely with Twitter, as well as LinkedIn, to help you reach the best candidates and attract more applications to your jobs.
All of our clients can now share their vacancies on Twitter and LinkedIn for FREE.
Social media is a great way of interacting with candidates as they use it on a daily basis and they feel very comfortable with these platforms. So, as well as sharing your jobs on CV-Library and our huge network of career sites (that are relevant to you) you can now reach even more candidates with our social job posting functionality.
The benefits of sharing your jobs on social media:
As a CV-Library user all you need to do is assign your social media accounts to your CV-Library profile and away you go. You can choose whether you share every job or just one or two, and remove your social media accounts at any time.
If you don’t currently recruit with our award winning job board and you’d like to find out more please visit the recruiter section of our site or contact our team on 01252 810995 or sales@cv-library.co.uk. We’re more than happy to tell you more about our services, including how to access our database of 6 million CVs and post your jobs on to our extensive network.
The Inspire Business Awards 2012 were the largest of its kind, bringing together local businesses from the Hampshire and Surrey area to celebrate their growth and success. CV-Library was over the moon to be awarded with the top award of the night and be named Business of the Year.
Find out more about the evening in an exclusive video, brought to you by destination Basingstoke:
Inspire 12 Winners
Business and the Community Award – AXA Wealth
Exporter of the Year Award – FarSite Communications
Online Excellence Awards – nDreams
Small Business of the Year Award – Zapkut
Innovation Excellence Award – DAVAL
Sustainable Business of the Year – HCR
New Business of the Year Award – The Nautical Company
Service Excellence Award – YBC Cleaning
Young Business Person of the Year Award – Helen McCusker
Entrepreneur of the Year Award – Paul Bradford, Southern Communications
Employer of the Year Award – SENTINEL Housing Association
The Inspire 12 Business of the Year Award – CV-Library
To find out more about CV-Library’s award wins click here.
Here at CV-Library, we’re ecstatic to announce that we’ve hit a whopping 6 million registered CVs on our database!
After only hitting the 5 million milestone on 16th August last year (2012), it’s hard to believe we’ve had another 1 million new CVs registered with us in just under eight months. The achievement highlights how CV-Library is still the UK’s fastest growing online job board and largest CV database.
This achievement comes after other record breaking statistics that we hit earlier this year; highlighting our continuous hard work to ensure recruiter’s jobs receive maximum exposure to candidates across the UK. Here’s a few of our highlights:
Last month we won the Creative Online Marketing Award from the OnRec Industry Awards for our growth, innovation and creativity in online marketing. This was our second year of winning this award so it’s great exposure for us to show prospective clients how we’re continually improving our service for both clients and candidates.
CV-Library has also been shortlisted for the Best Job Board category at the Recruiter Awards. It would be a tremendous achievement for us to win the award at the prestigious ceremony, so we’re all keeping our fingers crossed until the 1st May when the winners are announced!
The award announcements came alongside the great success of our largest offline marketing campaign to date. We began advertising in January across numerous TV channels, train and tube stations and gym chains to target new candidates. We got a great response from the campaign and so we’ve decided to continue the campaign throughout the year.
As a result
of this campaign and other marketing strategies; we’re pleased to report that our organic online traffic has increased by 35%, bringing in 2.3 million unique visitors to our site every month.
With only four months into the ‘new’ year; we’ve already racked up record breaking figures, a 6 million CV milestone and eight award nominations; we hope that CV-Library will continue its success throughout 2013!
Find out more about using CV-Library as a job seekers or a recruiter here: www.cv-library.co.uk.
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