Posts Tagged ‘u.k.’

Over 100,000 CVs were uploaded to the database of the U.K. job site CV-Library.co.uk during October. This record number pushes the total number of CVs to over 1.2 million.

 

According to Onrec.com, the CV database of CV-Library.co.uk has grown by 153 percent in the last 18 months. With its largest network of partnerships ever, CV-Library is now receiving an average of 25,000 CVs a week, making it one of the fastest growing CV databases in the U.K. Lee Biggins, a CV-Library director commented: “We saw 5140 CVs uploaded in a single 24 hour period this month, which is a new record for CV-Library. With our strategic advertising campaigns now in place on over 50 targeted career related websites, we are generating high volumes of high quality CVs from all industry sectors.”

U.K. property site PropertyAdd will be sending a direct feed of its properties to fellow U.K. real estate search engine Globrix.com.

PropertyAdd sells software to Realtors who want to create, manage and publicize their home listings.

Globrix has now signed 25 partners including Vebra which has a paid agreement with the company after Vebra blocked Globrix’s crawler.

See our previous coverage on Globrix here.

A Yelp-like local reviews site clone called Qype has been growing aggressively in Europe and has designs on other continents including South America. Will the U.S. be next?

Qype, a German startup, has a strong presence in England, France and Spain in addition to its home country. A Brazilian site was recently launched. The company’s traffic is good: 6.3 million unique visitors a month across its network, says the company’s CEO Stephan Uhrenbacher.

Qype doesn’t have any immediate plans to hit North America. Its main competitive differentiation from Yelp is its multi-lingual capabilities which suggest there’s lots of room to grow without taking on Yelp directly.

Qype is planning to launch an iPhone-enabled app later this month; Yelp already has that running.

Qype has a decent sized war chest. The company closed an €8 million round in September, and has raised €13m to date.

U.K. Internet users are increasingly looking for second hand goods online, according to a new study by Hitwise. In the 12 months to October U.K. Internet searches for second hand goods have increased by 22 percent while classifieds Web sites have experienced a 47 percent increase in traffic over the same period. According to Hitwise the latest trends identified by the company suggest that consumers are turning to the Internet to help them deal with the financial pressures and insecurities brought on by global credit crunch.

 

During the 12 weeks ending 11 October 2008, UK Internet users searched for over 22,000 distinct terms containing the phrase “second hand” with searches for “second hand cars” proving to be the most popular.

 

The top 10 classifieds websites ranked by market share of U.K. Internet visits, September 2008, according to Hitwise (market share in brackets):

 

1. Gumtree.com (14.32 percent)

2. Vivastreet.co.uk (5.66 percent)

3. Adtrader.co.uk (4.18 percent)

4. Freeads.co.uk (3.95 percent)

5. Preloved.co.uk (3.62 percent)

6. Horsemart.co.uk (2.99 percent)

7. Friday-ad.co.uk (2.65 percent)

8. Etsy.com (2.61 percent)

9. Edinburgh.gumtree.com (2.53 percent)

10. Pets4homes.co.uk (2.50 percent)

Yahoo has launched its voice-enabled mobile search service for UK customers. The OneSearch service has been available to US customers since earlier this year, but today’s release is new to the UK.

Voice-enabled search means users can speak a search query into a handset. It requires a download and is currently available for certain BlackBerry devices, including the 8800 series, the Curve and the Pearl, as well as for Nokia Series 60 handsets.

ZDNet in the UK tried the new service out but was disappointed, saying that the voice-activated mode seemed “more tuned to the American accent than to British voices.” Yahoo promised that OneSearch will adapt over time.

British niche recruitment Web site LegalProspects.com, a specialist job board for the legal sector, launched a re-design of the site on October 27. The re-design is a complete makeover with a new logo, free text search (with drop down menus to drill in on specific legal positions), links to recruiters, and an easy way for job seekers to post resumes. The site makes money by charging employers for posting job openings. LegalProspects.com is service of U.K.-based Jobsite.

Rightmove, the biggest property Web site in the U.K., will cut the workforce by 20 percent, making 60 people redundant, as the housing market in the UK continues to slow. According to Rightmove, these are “the first redundancies that the company has made as a result of the downturn in the UK housing market.” The planned cost reductions will result in savings of around 5 million pounds ($7.8 million).

In addition to these staff cuts Rightmove, which advertises around 90 percent of homes for sale in the U.K., will also cut back the Rightmove Overseas business because of decreased demand for property in continental Europe.