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New Infograph for TipTopJob Numbers

7. March 2014 TipTopJob Client/Recruiters, News/Updates (0)
We have this week put together a new Infograph about TipTopJob numbers. In it we have highlighted the number of jobs posted in February and our total number of jobs, the total number of candidates on the database, the number of jobseekers registering and the CV views per day, how long people spend on our site, the % of new visitors, the % of candidates that register who also leave a CV behind and finally the number of jobs that get email alerted out.

Check it out on our site here.

Thinking of being an Architect?

5. March 2014 TipTopJob Jobseeker (0)
Are you considering a career as an Architect?

Are you unsure what is involved in day to day life as an Architect? Do you want to find out more? Is it right for you?

Well, we are here to rescue you as we have put together some information about being an Architect. Hopefully this can help you to make the decision as to whether it is the right career choice....

So, what is an Architect?

Architects work within the construction industry and participate in the design of new buildings, expansion or modification of an existing building, or on the restoration and protection of creative industries. They usually deal with individual buildings or large redevelopment projects but they can be responsible for the design of the surrounding landscape and space.

Architects work in close cooperation with their customers and users to ensure that the design meets their needs. They usually control a project from start to finish and work closely with building professionals, including surveyors and engineers.

And, what does an architect actually do?

Work activities generally include some of the following:
- From set off, develop ideas with customers and set budgets;
- Dealing with professionals to assess the environment and impacts on the ground;
- Assist in site selection;
- Work closely with site contractors to ensure specific standards are met and that the building is sustainable and aesthetically pleasing;
- Prepare detailed work plans and specifications;
- Prepare applications for planning and construction management;
- Ensuring the project runs of time and budget;
- Address any difficulties and problems that may occur;
- Use of IT design and project management.

We have plenty more where this has come from. Click through here to read the full Architect Job Profile / Description page on our site and find out about the entry requirements, training, skills required, how much you would earn, what hours you would work and what career progression there is.

Should you have any further questions, we would be pleased to help where we can at marketing@tiptopjob.com.

https://www.tiptopjob.com/displaycontent/sectionid/15/contentid/1402_-architect-job-profile-description.

Plans to tackle youth unemployment

27. February 2014 TipTopJob Client/Recruiters, Jobseeker, News/Updates (0)
So, Nick Clegg has come out today unveiling plans to tackle youth unemployment after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the UK's youth unemployment rate dipped to 19.9% in the three months to December 2013. Finally something is going to be done that really could help youngsters steer their career. University is not always the best choice for everyone so this is really going to help those who are unsure what they want to do from that early age.

As part of the move, Jobcentres will offer job hunting advice to 16-17 year olds and they are going to aim to improve careers advice within schools. The idea is for youngsters to spend time in local companies to get experience and decide whether that will be the job for them.

We fully support the plans and hope they are implemented quickly to help the young. It is so difficult
deciding what career to take that any help will be welcome.

What do you think about the plans?

Pricing update for online purchasing

19. February 2014 TipTopJob Client/Recruiters, News/Updates (0)
In a bid to be the most competitive Job Board globally, we have reviewed our pricing for online purchases.

Prices are based on which Country the job is to be registered in and each Country has been assigned to 1 of 3 pricing groups.

1. Our Premium Countries include the UK and Ireland. We have now reduced the cost of 1 job advert for a 30 day period to ONLY £24/$30/€40. If advertisers choose 20 jobs, the cost is £250/$312/€412 per month for 30 day postings. The third option is for UNLIMITED job postings and the cost of this is ONLY £500/$625/€825 per month for 30 day postings.

For the other groups we have assigned a 50% discount in Europe and 75% discount Worldwide.

2. The second group of Countries include Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Kuwait, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, and the USA. The price for 1 job advert for a 30 day period is ONLY £12/€15/$20. For 20 jobs it is £121/€151/$200. For UNLIMITED jobs it is £242/€303/$400.

3. The third group of Countries include Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greenland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Phillipines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine. The price for 1 job advert for a 30 day period is ONLY £6/€8/$10. For 20 jobs it is £15/€18/$25. For UNLIMITED jobs it is £60/€75/$100.

All prices can be found on the relevant Country domain Recruiter's homepage e.g. for the UK click through to http://uk.tiptopjob.com/default/client.asp and for the USA, click through to http://us.tiptopjob.com/default/client.asp. You are able to change the currency on the page so it is relevant to you. Whatever Country site you are on, that is the price of the job postings!

Don't worry, we are still on the other end of the phone should you need us. All CV database, banner advertising and email marketing services need to be booked over the phone with the sales team still. Our telephone number is +44(0)1628 207350. Email us at sales@tiptopjob.com.

OR JUST BUY ONLINE: 

Affiliate Program

14. February 2014 TipTopJob Client/Recruiters, News/Updates (0)
In our bid to expand worldwide and obtain local presence in each Country, we have launched a new Affiliate Program to find businesses and individuals to sell TipTopJob services in their chosen area.

We are looking for Affiliates or Joint Sales Partners depending on the type of business they are. Businesses can add TipTopJob to their portfolio and sell the services to existing clients or new clients. Individuals are invited to set up by themselves or with a team to sell TipTopJob. The Affiliate would be allocated a specific area/territory/country.

It is a simple way to earn extra revenue for a business as it is a simple add-on to what they would already be doing. The ideal business would be another job board, recruitment business or publisher that already have a sales team but this is not limited. Affiliates can earn up to 60% of everything sold.

The Affiliate would be allocated a defined Area which could be a Territory/Region/Country which would be discussed and pre-agreed.

We have set up a website dedicated to our Affiliate Program which can be found here: www.tiptopjob.biz.

For those interested and want to find out more, you can email us on biz@tiptopjob.com or call us on +44(0)1628 207350. Just give us a call and we can discuss whether this is something you can get involved in or not.

This is an exciting opportunity for anyone wanting to join us in our International expansion.

62% of the reserved UK workforce say they wont be sending a co-worker a Valentines Day card on Friday

10. February 2014 TipTopJob Jobseeker, Survey results (0)
62% of the reserved UK workforce say they wont be sending a co-worker a Valentines Day card on Friday. 

Over the last 2 weeks, we surveyed around 500 people to ask them if they were going to send a Valentines Day card or present to a co-worker or boss. There always seems to be some “fancying” going on in the office so we wanted to know if people take it to the next step and show their love openly or secretly to that special person. This survey suggests most people don't!

38% however say that they would send a card or present which is still quite a healthy proportion of people. Watch out on Friday as you could be that special person!!!!!

TipTopJob's summary of statistics from January....

7. February 2014 TipTopJob Client/Recruiters, News/Updates (0)
Here is a summary of some of the statistics from January in terms of Jobseekers, Jobs, Applications and Searches.

Jobseekers
Throughout January we saw the largest increase in jobseekers in the Purchasing & Supply Chain, Charity and Legal industries. It still stands that IT, Engineering and Health, Nursing and Social Services have the highest number of jobseekers in total.

There was a 75% increase in the number of jobseekers registering in the UK from December to January. We continue to have the most number of jobseekers registered in the UK, USA, India, South Africa and Canada.

Jobs
The most jobs were registered in Health, Nursing & Social Services, Advertising, Marketing & PR and IT. Electronics saw the largest increase from December to January and Transport, Logistics & Distribution and Utilities & Services saw the some of the largest increases over that period as well.

Applications
In January, Catering & Hospitality topped the bill for the most number of applications in one month. This was closely followed by the IT and Engineering jobs posted.

South Africa generated the most number of applications in January – double that of the jobs in the UK.

Searches
Construction jobseekers conducted the most job searches on TipTopJob throughout January by almost double of the jobseekers in the Retail & Wholesale industry.

For more information on statistics, please email us at sales@tiptopjob.com or marketing@tiptopjob.com.

Do I want to be a Chemical Engineer?

4. February 2014 TipTopJob Jobseeker (0)
Are you a thinking about what career you are going to take? Do you know you want to become an engineer but not sure which specialist route you should take? Or do you want a career change to get into Chemical Engineering and want to find out more?

Whichever your situation, we should hopefully be able to help you make some informed decisions. Here is some info on chemical engineering and there is even more to read on our website.

So, what is chemical engineering? Chemical engineering involves working with pioneering valuable new materials and techniques, such as nanotechnology, fuel cells and bio-medical engineering. Chemical engineers would work in many industries including, for example, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, energy, food and drink etc They are mainly involved in designing and developing and operating industrial processes for all kinds of products.

As far as entry requirements go, the normal route is to have a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) which is a three year course or a Master of Engineering (Meng) which is a four year course. The preferred subjects would be in biochemistry/chemistry/engineering but other subjects that would be considered include applied chemistry, polymer science, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering and nuclear engineering. To gain chartered status, as a graduate with BEng, you would need to do a period of further study and work experience however those with Meng would only need some kind of work experience. Some employers would consider a foundation degree or HND if a degree or masters has not been obtained.

Some of the most important skills are:
- Interest in chemistry, maths and engineering;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Excellent project management skills;
- Good team working skills;
- Good leadership and management skills;
- IT skills;
- Attention to detail;
- Innovation and creativity.

As a guide, starting salaries for graduate engineers are around £28,000. Experienced chemical engineers may recieve around £53,000. High level engineers can earn over £70,000. Salaries vary depending on the sector, location, size and type of organisation. You would be expected to work a normal office based 35-40 hours per week but some over-time is likely.

Many companies offer internal training programs for graduates to make sure they get the wide range of experience to develop a career as a professional engineer. IChemE benchmark many of these schemes, known as accredited Company training schemes (ACTS). IChemE offer a number of training events and is the professional body for chemical engineers. You can visit their website for further information. Some employers offer on the job training and programmes that help you to work towards CEng status.

You can find this information on our website as well as the details of the role: https://www.tiptopjob.com/displaycontent/sectionid/15/contentid/1411_-chemical-engineer-job-profile-description.

Hopefully this information has been useful to you but if you have any specific questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at TipTopJob and we will endeavour to help all of our jobseekers in any way we can. Please email us marketing@tiptopjob.com.

Thoughts on the Bulgarian and Romanian changes....

22. January 2014 TipTopJob Client/Recruiters, Jobseeker, Survey results (0)
After the recent changes to allow Bulgarians and Romanians the right to work freely across the EU, we asked our users the question "How will allowing Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants to work anywhere in the EU impact other European workers’ abilities to find a new job?".

The results have just come in and 50% of our users feel there will be a positive impact on other European workers abilities to find a new job. 29% believe that it would create no change and 21% felt there would be a negative impact.

Studies have predicted that it could mean a shift in labour wages for lower paid workers which would mean a negative impact to those in lower paid jobs. All predictions/suggestions are speculation though and it is difficult to know exactly what affects there will be until it happens.

How do you think these changes will affect jobseekers? Let us know your thoughts....

TipTopJob launch new training service in partnership with CourseMonster

13. January 2014 TipTopJob News/Updates, TipTopJob PR (0)

TipTopJob.com, one of UK’s longest running recruitment websites today announced the formation of a strategic partnership to launch their new, direct-to-consumer training solution in partnership with www.Coursemonster.com.

Developed in association with the UK’s leading edge training course directory, CourseMonster (www.coursemonster.com ), the new service gives instant access to the most comprehensive and high quality Instructor-led and Blended Learning training courses in the UK.

“We are delighted to be partnering with CourseMonster, this new offering is a natural progression for us, and our continued growth is being achieved through delivering quality solutions and real business benefits to our users” says TipTopJob Marketing Manager, Corinne Hutchinson.

Continuing she said, “As the UK emerges from the recession, 2014 will be a year of change and recovery, there is still a huge skills gap and the competition for jobs is hotter than ever, only those who perform brilliantly or have extra skills will secure the best positions.

The new relationship, will enable consumers to search over 16,000 of the most in-demand business skills and IT training courses, including Microsoft, Prince2, ITIL, Sales, Marketing Finance, HR, Management and Leadership, delivered by over 165 of the UK’s key training companies. Users will be able to search by brand, category, postcode, price, and location.

“We are very excited about teaming up with https://www.tiptopjob.com/, this association will significantly extend our portfolio to a much wider audience and fulfill the demands of consumers”, comments CourseMonster Managing Director, Kelvin Durcan. “with the new government Right to Request Training initiative launched in April 2010, we look forward to helping TipTopJob expand audience engagement and offer the best training content in the market.”