Onrec UK to focus on mobile, resourcing and more
This year’s Onrec conclave in London is taking a special focus on mobile recruitment, adding IAB’s senior mobile manager Alex Kozloff to the speaker lineup.
The one-day conference and exhibition is Oct. 18 at The Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London.
Other topics include:
- the challenges of online recruitment for multinational companies, presented by Ruth Spalding, recruitment manager for easyJet;
- the latest best practices for Internet resourcing, presented by Laura Stoker, executive director of global training at AIRS;
- reducing recruitment spending, by Mike Bishop, national resourcing manager for Ricoh UK Ltd.,
- and a panel discussion on regulations concerning the use of social media in the workplace.
The complete lineup is here.
“I always look forward to our conference and exhibition, here in the U.K.,” said David Hurst, CEO of Onrec. “It’s a unique opportunity for discussion and debate about what’s happening and what might happen in online recruitment over the next 12 months.”
This year’s conference and exhibition is sponsored by Jobsite.
The conference costs £350+VAT. More conference details are at www.onrec.com/conferenceuk.
New ‘rent to buy’ property site launches in UK
TryItBuyItProperty.com aims to bridge the gap between renting and buying at a time when homeowners are struggling to sell their properties and would-be purchasers are finding that banks aren’t forthcoming with mortgages. Hence the idea of ‘rent to buy’ in which you save for a property while renting it and thereby trying out the house for fit and feel in the process.
In the depressed post-slump housing market the hope is that it will bring together both buyers and sellers who would otherwise be locked out of house purchases and it seems to have already garnered government approval with Grant Shapps MP, Minister for Housing and Local Government expressing the department’s support.
The company is the brainchild of David Riley, a serial entrepreneur (and ‘entrepreneur in residence’ at Brunel university) probably best known for recruitment company Mandeville which he built before selling it to Randstad in 2009.
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Dicejobs launches in U.K. — no relation to Dice.com
Dicejobs.co.uk is the latest vertical industry portal to launch in the U.K. market. The site is not related to Dice Holdings Inc. in the U.S.
According to the site, “Employers and recruiters in a variety of industries pay us for access to our online recruiting services and featured listing to help them find the right employee or freelancer. Job- seekers look to us to help them enhance their careers by posting their resumes, by searching our database of permanent, freelancing and contract job postings.”
The site refers to “a variety of strategic tie-ups” with which “Dicejobs.co.uk gives its customers’ job postings exposure to the largest U.K. job audience on the Internet” but it is clearly early days since at time of writing the site appears to have just two vacancies listed.
AskTheHomeSearch.com launches IrelandPropertyFinder.com
U.K. property site AskTheHomeSearch.com, which launched in April 2010, has now announced the launch of an Irish partner site IrelandPropertyFinder.com which is offering a subscription fee based approach with unlimited listings for £35 a month. It promises that the subscription fee will remain fixed for a full five years.
U.K. websites announce pay-per-click campaigns
Fish4.co.uk, which claims to be the U.K.’s leading recruitment site, is launching a pay-per-click campaign just as its key rival does.
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