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Universal Jobmatch nominated for worst online recruitment site award

Andrew Dutton
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http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news/story/ongoing-yearly-costs-for-universal-jobmatch-estimated-to-be-5.7m

Following this, see http://norauk.com/the-wooden-nora/ - also mentioned in today’s Guardian Diary:


The Wooden NORA is a one-off special trophy for this year only. Whilst it is all too easy to produce a terrible recruitment website, especially when resources are tight, it is unforgivable when a website appears to go out of its way to make things difficult for jobseekers. By way of explanation, here are the reasons behind the Finalists for the Wooden NORA Award.

Universal JobMatch: There are a multitude of reasons to condemn this mongrel of a recruitment website. Built by serious job board professionals, Monster, for a crazy budget of at least £15m, but specified by civil servants at the DWP, this website commits almost every online recruitment crime, and then some. The domain isn’t even Universal JobMatch!

[edited as I can’t hit the right keys to spell ‘nominated’]

Ros
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here’s link to the finalists - rivals include facebook and yo sushi (!) -

http://norauk.com/wooden-nora-finalists/#comment-131

shawn mach
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a little off topic, but ....

came across this earlier this week ... is a UK Online Centres interactive guide to how to use Universal Jobmatch, including how to -

- Register with Universal Job Match
- Do a simple search
- Apply for a job
- Record your activity

http://www.ukonlinecentres.com/news-and-activity/6166-new-universal-jobmatch-tool