Has anyone got experience advertising on Jobserve?

[KentPhilip]

OK Its for a permie role not contract. But you lot seem rather knowledgeable so I thought I'd ask.

My current employer, who I am leaving through redundancy, wants to hire a £24K permie IT support engineer.
They are having trouble finding someone so I thought I'd invest £100 for a jobserve advert, with the hope of making £3K commission from my company if I find someone who they recruit. This £3K is 12% of the annual salary (this is less than the 20% their normal agency is charging).
Bit of a risk but I'm up for it.

Are there any tips to get the best exposure for the jobserve ad?
I'm thinking of recording a youtube video to make the advert stand out. Trouble is you're not allowed to have hyperlinks in the ad unless you pay for another advertising credit at £100 a pop, and then you use an eighth of it. Bstards.

Are there any other good job web sites that offer value for money advertising? I'm a tight git so I want to save cash.

The job is in West London.

Cheers

[dude69]

OK Its for a permie role not contract. But you lot seem rather knowledgeable so I thought I'd ask.

My current employer, who I am leaving through redundancy, wants to hire a £24K permie IT support engineer.
They are having trouble finding someone so I thought I'd invest £100 for a jobserve advert, with the hope of making £3K commission from my company if I find someone who they recruit. This £3K is 12% of the annual salary (this is less than the 20% their normal agency is charging).
Bit of a risk but I'm up for it.

Are there any tips to get the best exposure for the jobserve ad?
I'm thinking of recording a youtube video to make the advert stand out. Trouble is you're not allowed to have hyperlinks in the ad unless you pay for another advertising credit at £100 a pop, and then you use an eighth of it. Bstards.

Are there any other good job web sites that offer value for money advertising? I'm a tight git so I want to save cash.

The job is in West London.

Cheers

You can advertise on reed.co.uk for free.

You will get a lot of responses, and nearly all will be crap.

[2uk]

with the hope of making £3K commission from my company if I find someone who they recruit. This £3K is 12% of the annual salary (this is less than the 20% their normal agency is charging).
Bit of a risk but I'm up for it.



Cheers

So you are saying Agencies are charging clients at least one monthly salary for permanent recruitment ???

[Kyajae]

My current employer....wants to hire a £24K permie IT support engineer.
They are having trouble finding someone.......

Not surprised at that salary level.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

Pay dry roasted peanuts, get gibbons.

Good support engineers know their worth.

[TheFaQQer]

So you are saying Agencies are charging clients at least one monthly salary for permanent recruitment ???

Yep - pretty common from my experience of permie recruitment. Some charge upwards of 30% depending on starting salary.

[KentPhilip]

So you are saying Agencies are charging clients at least one monthly salary for permanent recruitment ???

At the very least - but more like 2-5 months salary normally apparently. And an accountant friend of mine says his company pays 35%...

[Sockpuppet]

At the very least - but more like 2-5 months salary normally apparently. And an accountant friend of mine says his company pays 35%...

More fool them.

I mean advertising, interviewing and signing contracts really isnt that hard is it. Just shows how lazy modern businesses are.

Suppose its good for me though. The same reason why walkers crisps got billed for 50 hours last week when I did about 16. Agency guaranteed me hours. On the days when they had booked me in (still paid me) I went to somewere else and worked instead.

So did 46 hours (worked) and billed for over 80 @ rates between £11.50 - £14.00.

ALl becuase no-one worked out if I was actually needed. Beginning to enjoy this bench lark far too much!

[TheFaQQer]

The same reason why walkers crisps got billed for 50 hours last week when I did about 16. Agency guaranteed me hours. On the days when they had booked me in (still paid me) I went to somewere else and worked instead.

Sounds very IR35 unfriendly to me, though! Getting paid when there is no work to do sounds like what permie staff do, not businesses.

[Bluebird]

Sounds very IR35 unfriendly to me, though! Getting paid when there is no work to do sounds like what permie staff do, not businesses.

I think it's slightly different.

The "client" requested his presence on site, and paid him accordingly - as you would with any other business.

Sounds ok to me.

[TheFaQQer]

I think it's slightly different.

The "client" requested his presence on site, and paid him accordingly - as you would with any other business.

Sounds ok to me.

On the days when they had booked me in (still paid me) I went to somewere else and worked instead.

But he wasn't on site. SP was paid to be on site, and was working elsewhere.