David Hurst interviews Robbie Cowling

In the first of a series of interviews with individuals responsible for creating and shaping the online recruitment market in the future, David Hurst, editor of onrec.com and Online recruitment magazine travelled to Tiptree, Essex to meet Robbie Cowling, managing director and owner of Jobserve.

Robbie is the 438th richest person in the UK, with his fortune being estimated by the Sunday Times at 75 million.
Next season, Jobserve will begin a two-year sponsorship of West Ham United.

He has made his fortune using the Internet. In 1993 he put his plan into action to publish IT jobs by using the fax machine, in order to beat the job adverts that were being advertised in the printed trade magazine, that he felt were too slow for both candidate and recruiter. Then along came the world''s adoption of the Internet.
Robbie had been an IT contractor, so not only could he see the advantages of publishing jobs on the Internet, he was equipped with the technical ability to design and build a solution.

The company is now coming up for its 10th birthday and Robbie''s a very rich man.
Why has he been so successful? How does his business work? What are his views on the online recruitment industry, partnerships, the competition, multiple posting and marketing? And what are his plans for the future?
To read the interview in full, click the link below where you can download the 7500 word article at a cost of 5.00.

If you are interested in the Internet, he has some good advice. If you are interested in online recruitment he has some very interesting views and if you are planning to make money from the net, he is living proof that it can be done.

Robbie is not what you would expect. He doesn''t look like one of the richest men in the country nor does he look like one of the elite few people in the world who have figured out how to make it from just the Internet, or more specifically, online recruitment.