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We are extremely proud to announce the Finalists for this year’s National Online Recruitment awards.  Now in our ninth year, the NORAs have become established as the standard by which all recruitment websites are measured.  Uniquely, the awards are initially nominated by job seekers themselves, in order that the perspective of those who utilise each site remains paramount.  This year we received almost 25,000 nominations for 654 separate websites.  http://www.norauk.com/finalists/

The volume of vacancies advertised on UK job boards has fallen by 69% in the past 2 years. And this is in a market that is abandoning print advertising for digital – The Sunday Times contained only 8 actual job adverts this week.  So do we know just how the job boards that we all use, on a daily basis, are faring in the current economic climate?  We do know, for example, that the official number of unemployed now stands at 2.4 million, and has increased by 220,000 in the past three months.  When people are losing jobs and not finding new ones, we also know that demand is far outstripping supply. There are of course many firms still recruiting,