PRESS RELEASE: New Year, New
Career, true for 95% of people
A recent survey conducted by TipTopJob over the last few
weeks has found that 95% of respondents New Years’ resolution were to find a
new job.
At the start of a new year, people are looking for positive
ways to change their lives and what better way to do this than to change your
job and make a fresh start. Well, that is what a huge percentage of the
population are doing today (with our help) !
Not only are 95% of people changing their career, but in the
first 2 weeks of January, TipTopJob saw a 56% increase in job applications
across the website showing that people are proactively trying to change their
career for the better.
Mike Dauncey comments, “On top of this, in the last 2 weeks
we have seen our traffic more than triple in comparison to the 2 weeks before.
People are really on the look-out for a new job at the moment so now is the
perfect time for recruiters to post their jobs with us.”
About TipTopJob
The TipTopJob Group is a network
generic and specialist jobsites that operate over 85 International jobsites
around the world and covers 63 Industry sectors. For more information on our
jobsites, please contact Corinne on coz@tiptopjob.com or Stuart on stuart.rea@tptopjob.com or call 01628 207350.
Happy New Year to all of our TipTopJob users!!!
Why not start the new year but conducting a new job search on TipTopJob (www.tiptopjob.com) to see if we have anything suitable for you. If not, do not forget to set up "job alerts" in your account so we can notify you of opportunities as and when they are registered.
We cover 63 Industry sectors and 83 Countries and have around 400,000 jobs live to apply for.
We wish you every success in 2015 and hope we can help you to find a new career!
Today we are happy to announce that ALL job advertising in
the UK is FREE across our generic and 38 specialist jobsites.
The adjustment in strategy allows all advertisers across the
UK, in any industry sector to make a use of the site at no cost for unlimited
job advertising with no time limits or strings attached so we can concentrate
on our International advertising services.
Recruiters need only visit the recruiter side of
uk.tiptopjob.com site and start their job posting from there: http://uk.tiptopjob.com/default/client.asp.
Recruiters can post single jobs directly on the site or they can forward their
login details to their job posting board e.g. broadbean, logicmelon, jobmate, idibu etc and
start bulk uploading through there. We are also able to take jobs via XML, CSV
or HTTP if that is required.
The CV database cost is now offered at £150 per month plus
£20 per additional user. The button banners are only £100 per month and can be
purchased on any generic or specialist domain in the network.
For any further info do not hesitate to get in touch on 01628
207350 or email sales@tiptopjob.com.
Our most recent survey of around 1000 people over the last 2
weeks asked “When looking for a new job, where is the first place you would
look?” The options we provided were; job board, recruitment agency, social
network, friend network, direct, newspaper or jobcentre.
Most people clicked “job board” as the first place they
would visit when looking for a new job, in fact 36%. “Recruitment agency” came
in as the second most popular place to look with 24% of the responses. 13% would
use their “social network”, 10% would visit their “jobcentre”, 8% would go “direct”
to the employer, 7% read the “newspaper” and 3% said they would use their “friend
network”.
We were surprised with the results as with so many more
people using social networks today and with their increasing usage, we thought they
would take more of the votes than a mere 13%. Recruitment agencies were two
times more popular as a first choice and job boards almost three times more
popular.
Where would you visit first? If it is a job board, then
which job board is your number one?
Here is a brief summary relating to our top
Industries and Countries based on jobseeker registrations and jobs, total
figures and monthly growth.
Industries
Our top industries based on jobseeker registrations
remain constant with IT holding the most and Engineering, Health, Office and
Accountancy following behind. The
Recruitment sector experienced the highest growth from July to August with 55%
more jobseekers registering their CV’s. This was closely followed by the
Property and Real Estate industry that had 49% growth in the same
period.
In terms of job registrations, the Transport,
Logistics & Distribution industry had the highest number of jobs being
registered in August totaling 366,750 jobs. The Advertising, Marketing & PR
had the second highest number of jobs being registered followed by IT.
It was the Media industry that had the highest
growth rate from July to August followed by Agriculture and then
Recruitment.
Countries
There are no surprises when saying that the UK and
the USA still have the highest number of jobseekers registered. After that, in
order of the total number of jobseekers, the Countries are: India, South Africa,
Pakistan and Canada.
The USA had the most jobs being registered of over
1 million in August. Germany had the second highest number of almost 100,000
jobs and the UK was the third largest.
We were contacted by SIGNL this week to let us know that TipTopJob is ranked in the Top 10 for Twitter Followers Growth, which is obviously brilliant news and something that we want to share.
We ranked #7 of 1,463 Recruiting by SIGNL companies by SIGNL in July 2014.
SIGNL's algorithm analyzes millions of data points including web/mobile traffic, social buzz, company growth, and more to identify companies with the highest momentum.
TipTopJob’s page is updated with new jobs, new clients, employment news, reviews, survey results, PR activity and more. If you are not already following us on Twitter, you can do so by following this page: https://twitter.com/tiptopjob.
For more information on this you can click through to the SIGNL site: http://signl.com/award/public/tiptopjob/recruiting-2013-dec-b-twitter_follower.
National Hug Your Boss Day will be upon us next month, Friday 22nd August
2014. Are you gearing up to give your boss a big hug?
With just over one month to go, we are still asking questions related to
relationships at work and will have some interesting statistics for you once the
results are collected. To help us with this data, make sure you answer our
survey question currently being asked on our websites.
We are currently asking “Does your boss....1. Motivate and spur you on? 2.
Cause your stress and headache? 3. Make you feel devalued and want to
quit?”
In a surprising recent survey conducted across our network
of sites, we found that 39% of those responding felt that the “directive – do it
my way” approach to management was more motivating over any other style. It was
the most popular response by 12%.
Second to the “directive” approach was the “participative –
everyone has input” which we thought would actually take the first position.
27% felt that was the most motivating.
The “pacesetting – do it myself” approach was the least
popular with only 4% of respondents choosing it and the “affiliative – people first,
task second” ended up with 6%.
11% chose the “authoritative – firm but fair” and 13% chose
the “coaching – developmental” option.
When putting this question together, the obvious answer to
what motivates you the most would be the “participative – everyone has input”
in our eyes but it seems that people need more direction than that to motivate them
at work.
What do you think ?
If you are interested in knowing what people are searching for on TipTopJob, then here is our Top 10!
1. dotnet developer
2. architect
3. sales customer service advisor
4. agricultural engineer
5. area manager
6. assistant branch manager
7. art antiques dealer
8. architectural designer
9. architectural technician
10. architectural drafter.
You can check out the illustration here: https://www.tiptopjob.com/viewnewsstory/storyid/4329_-top-10-search-terms.
We cover 61 Industries so if your search/keyword does not appear here then do not fret. We have millions of searches being made. If you are more interested in a specific industry simply get in touch with us to ask marketing@tiptopjob.com.
In a recent poll to find out which social network users favoured to use when finding a new job, Linkedin came out on top. 41% of respondents said they would prefer to use it over Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
TipTopJob’s survey also found that Facebook was the second most favoured social network with 32% saying they preferred it. Twitter was the least popular with only 3% of users using it and Google+, 24%.
Most people are aware that the best way to find a new job is through networking which is why the social networks have become an increasingly popular place to start given that is it so easy and available 24/7. Each of the networks bring their own merits and usefulness to the table but when it comes to looking for a job we wanted to find out what people thought about them.
Linkedin is the most obvious place to start as a professional. It allows you to link in with other people, update your own professional profile, do company searches, contact people and update your own status. It is a “business” network and therefore most commonly seen as the best place to start looking for a new job. Mike Dauncey adds, “Linkedin is more commonly used amongst certain industries like Engineering, IT and higher end roles over those blue collar workers and careers in, for example, the Health sector so it will be more popular for certain industries.”
Facebook and Twitter are more for “social” uses and allow connections of friends rather than just business associates. Although they allow you to follow companies of interest, see job postings, network etc and can be useful for some in finding a new opportunity, Linkedin seems to be the most popular choice still. Google+ is becoming ever more popular given it is a Google product and works in a similar way to the other networks.
Have you found a new job through a social network? Which one? Let us know.