IT Recruitment Evolves with JobboardIT

JobboardIT, one of the first online recruitment resources for the information technology sector, has been given a major facelift by Brainhunter. Its user base of professionals, employers and recruiters will now have access to an enhanced range of services, support, contacts and job opportunities as the business moves into its second decade of operation.

Starting out in 1998 as a UK-focused service, designed and built by a team of IT recruitment experts, JobboardIT quickly attracted the interest of a pan European audience. With increasing globalisation of both work and communications, the site has since evolved into a truly international resource. Befitting this global status, and ensuring broad online and SEO exposure for all jobs posted on the site, JobboardIT will now also be available as a dotcom domain.

Many IT professionals see JobboardIT as their long term career partner, revisiting and re-engaging with the site at each stage of their career progression. Over 14 million searches have been run on the site and last month alone, 1,189 job applications were submitted. Similarly, numerous recruiters and IT businesses have been regular users of the service since the start. ìWe found the original JobboardIT to be the most effective channel into the European technology skills marketplace;î commented Joanne Parlett, Marketing Manager of Square One Resources, the UK's leading specialist IT recruitment consultancy. ìOur business specialises in providing highly proficient IT staff with multi-lingual communication skills into technology partners such as SAP and Oracle, and as such it is vital that we can reach and engage with the top talent available regardless of location. The newly enhanced recruitment service will further extend our capabilities and ensure we can recruit the optimal individuals for each role we work on.î

Brainhunterís approach to recruitment is to focus on the directly accessible, vastly under-utilised quality available via the online medium. Job vacancies and employer brands are optimised with a clever creative strategy that blends the visual brand benefits of print advertising with the directness of online classifieds, while end users comprise the upper echelons of a particular industry. Rolling into the service operational management, sales and support, Brainhunter takes a solution-based approach to ensure a winning partnership with each company in its portfolio.

ìJobboardIT adds a further sector specialism to our growing network of highly trafficked, high quality online recruitment services,î commented Colin Minto, Managing Director of Recruiting Technology Solutions, Brainhunter UK Limited. ìOur ability to add innovation, increase exposure and drive activity makes Brainhunter the perfect partner for a job board of this calibre and weíll be growing its capabilities further over the course of 2009.î Mark Kieve, CEO of the Internet Corporation (Amris), owner of the JobboardIT added; ìThis deal will ensure the continued relevance of JobboardIT to the technology marketplace for many years to come.î

In addition to conducting a proactive programme to drive quality end users and vacancies onto the service, Brainhunter has incorporated the vital tools required to speed up, optimise and streamline the recruitment process, at the same time as ensuring the best person can be easily found, identified and recruited for a role. Immediate categorisation of candidates into A & B groupings based on intricate, database-driven criteria enables any employer or recruiter to immediately focus in on the most relevant applicants, while effective management of all candidate communications is assured via the pre-written messages that enhance the recruitment experience for all parties.