Online resolution for Scots job seekers

Scots job seekers got off to a flying start in 2003, with s1jobs.com reporting record traffic during January ñ up 64% against Jan 2002. The cumulative duration of *200,000 user sessions at s1jobs, each on average 20 minutes long, amounted to a staggering 8 years online job searching in just 4 weeks.

And itís Scotlandís young professionals doing the searching ñ the *average s1jobs user is in full-time employment, aged under 35 years and educated to degree level. Whatís more, with *87% of s1jobs users wanting to change job in the next 6 months, theyíre typifying todayís transient working patterns. Perhaps also highlighting increased dissatisfaction amongst the Scottish workforce with their career prospects.

Last week alone s1jobs emailed 8,300 applications directly to Scottish recruiters on behalf of job seekers ñ the equivalent of one application every *20 seconds. ìWith more and more Scots jobs seekers going straight to s1jobs and applying online, the processes of job seeking and candidate placement are simply much quicker and easier. This factor will undoubtedly increase the rate of job churn in the market placeî said Ewan Colville, Head of Marketing at s1jobs.

Colville added; ìIn the last 6 months, weíve seen 25,000 Scottish based candidates register with the s1jobs CV Database where they can get head-hunted by Scotlandís recruiters. Add on the 130,000 subscribers to s1jobs personalised email alerts and you realise the extent to which Scotlandís workforce are actively looking for a new jobî

Now in itís third year of operation s1jobs attracts more job seeker attention in the Scottish market than any other recruitment media platform. Only last September, the s1jobs ëice creamí TV ad was voted Scotlandís favourite TV ad by public vote at the Scottish Advertising Awards.

*Sources: URCHIN stats Jan 2003 ñ 5,000,000 page impressions from 200,000 user sessions. Average 20 mins per user session. 8,300 applications emailed per week to recruiters from s1jobs w/c 20/01/03. User profile data from May 02 online survey of 2,500 s1jobs users. s1jobs is an ABCe audited site ñ previous audit Sept 02 registered 3.5M page impressions and 90,000 unique users.