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Milkround most widely-used graduate recruitment site

According to The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012 (produced by High Fliers Research), Milkround has retained its position as the most widely-used graduate recruitment website on campus for the fifth year running ... more or comment here

New joint offering from TheGraduate and CVSeeMe

TMDR specialist jobsite TheGraduate has joined forces with video-enabled graduate site CVSeeMe to create a new graduate recruitment offering ... more or comment here

Archant reviews ad sales contract

Archant, the UK’s largest independently-owned regional media business, has put its advertising sales contract up for grabs ... more or comment here

RBI reveals strong traffic growth at Spring Update

At their recent quarterly ‘Spring Update’ event for recruitment ad agency personnel, held at The Brewery, London on the evening of Thursday 3rd May, RBI Recruitment Media unveiled the latest traffic and application figures for their ten industry-specific jobsites, reflecting an impressive start to 2012 ... more or comment here

Agency Bites #7

Just a few gems from the agency world this month, with lots of items, including awards reports, covered elsewhere on Ri5. Lots of rumours flying around, of course. Ri5 aims as always to be first with the real news. ... more or comment here

Tender: Metro (West Yorkshire)

5-year contract for advertising and marketing services, with an estimated total value of £500K (excluding vat). ... more or comment here

Sharp fall in advertised vacancies

The number of vacancies advertised in the first quarter of 2012 fell by 27%, according to the latest Evenbase (previously Jobsite) quarterly recruitment review ... more or comment here

Special Ri5 discount for Onrec’s ‘Gravity’ conference

Ri5 has arranged a special discount for users intending to attend Onrec’s Gravity Recruiting Conference next month ... more or comment here

LinkedIn’s potential interest in Monster denied

Late last week, Reuters named LinkedIn as one of several potentially interested bidders for Monster, prompting shares in the latter to soar by almost 22%. But a source close to LinkedIn has reportedly denied that the world’s largest professional network has any interest in pursuing an acquisition ... more or comment here

TMP nominated for NMA awards

TMP Worldwide have gained nominations in two categories at the 2012 New Media Age awards, putting them into direct competition with entries from the world of consumer marketing ... more or comment here

TARGETjobs sharpens focus on top thirty universities

Two separate research reports suggest that TARGETjobs is the fastest-growing graduate job-board in terms of its use by and popularity among students at the UK’s top thirty universities ... more or comment here

Recruitment Society – forthcoming events

News of the latest Midlands region event – focusing on apprenticeships – plus early notification of the Society’s summer reception in London ... more or comment here

Positive start for new entrant to graduate market

Launched earlier this year by the Jobs4 Network, new graduate and student recruitment site Grads.co.uk reports an encouraging take-up from employers plus positive feedback from its target audience ... more or comment here 1 comment

Online: April sees UK dip and European rise

The latest statistics from Monster’s UK and European employment indices point to a fall in UK job-posting activity in April, but a third successive monthly increase in Europe ... more or comment here

Which way will the recruitment industry develop?

It’s a big question, and one that Gareth Jones – chief inmate at BrubakerHR – will be seeking to answer at the next meeting of the Online Recruitment Marketing Council on Wednesday 30th May ... more or comment here

Digital shorts

Our latest round-up of recent developments on the digital recruitment front covers everything from key market data to toilet humour ... more or comment here

Recruiter Awards – all the results

A packed Grosvenor house was the glitzy setting for the 2012 Recruiter Awards for Excellence – the first to be held since the Recruiter brand returned to the Redactive fold ... more or comment here

Charity news

Two characters in our sector. Three very good causes. All they need is your backing. ... more or comment here

TMG relaunches Telegraph Jobs

Telegraph Media Group has relaunched its Telegraph Jobs website. The changes are designed to continue its growth as a leading site and to allow for greater access from mobiles and tablets ... more or comment here

Redesign and upgrade for CWJobs

On Tuesday 1st May, specialist IT recruitment site CWJobs launched its redesigned brand and website with improved functionality including search and navigation plus distinct community areas for job-seekers and recruiters ... more or comment here

GTI Media partners with Step on work experience

GTI Media has announced a new partnership with Step (the UK’s leading provider of student placement and graduate internship opportunities) designed to promote the positive benefits of work experience to undergraduates and raise the awareness of work experience among universities, employers and government agencies ... more or comment here

Onrec’s Gravity Recruiting Conference set for 6th June

Onrec’s annual Gravity Recruiting Conference will take place at London’s Grange Tower Bridge Hotel on the afternoon of Wednesday 6th June (the day after the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee bank holiday). As ever, the event will aim to provide attendees with fresh perspectives on online recruiting ... more or comment here

Press ad wins latest Ri Fiver

We may be well into in the digital age, but press advertising is still capable of packing a punch in the recruitment arena, as the winning entry for the February/March Ri Fiver clearly demonstrates… ... more or comment here 3 comments

Regional news groups to offer joint sales package

In an attempt to boost ad revenues, regional news groups Northcliffe Media and Trinity Mirror Regionals are to offer advertisers a new national sales package of titles ... more or comment here