Still going strong 10 years on.
2009 marks the 10 year anniversary of Jobsgopublic, the online recruitment brainchild of David Marshall and Richard Tyrie. As the company faces arguably the toughest economic climate of its existence co-founder David Marshall has spoken out, sharing his thoughts on the current situation and the road ahead.
A strong sense of confidence, expertise and optimism oozes from the Ri5 article, as David Marshall addresses the online recruitment sphere, calmly calling on significant industry experience for emphasis.
Starting out in 1999 Jobsgopublic were one of the original job boards and the first with a public sector focus, resulting in being the first company to power to government site. A trailblazing run that has left Jobsgopublic open to imitation as Marshall explains- “We’ve been one of the few pure-play job boards for a long time now, and we’ve clearly influenced a number of other players’ strategies, such as the Guardian and Tribal. In fact, some of their implementations are flattering in their similarity.”
10 years on and Jobsgopublic still hold a significant market share of the public sector online job market, in what has become a highly competitive and crowded market. Jobsgopublic have managed to foot it with much wealthier competitors due to their extensive industry knowledge and understanding - ”We have contracts with around a third of local government, we work with every single London borough, and we have a huge degree of awareness – which can work both ways.”
Despite the tightening of purse strings recently Marshall is confident Jobsgopublic have created an innovative and flexible product which can adapt and move with the economy – “Our own USP’s are our size and our continuing drive to innovate. We’re not tied to a huge, ‘undevelopable’ platform – ours has been developed in open-source software, using agile techniques, which means we can be very responsive to client and market demands.”
March 2009, Jobsgopublic the original player finds itself amongst an ever increasing bunch of contenders and pretenders within the public sector online recruitment game. With their flexible, market leading approach to this developing industry and visionary leaders like David Marshall at the helm the future looks bright and another 10 years at the top looms.
Have you got what it takes?
Even jobsboards need to find great people to fit in the team. Thats where you come in, have you got what it takes to join our team?
We’ve got 3 key positions in our development team up for grabs and need to find a person with the right skills and ‘fit’ for Jobsgopublic. We’re actually more than just a jobsboard (but what a great jobsboard we are), JGP our parent company have provided talent management software to organisations for the past 8 years, drastically reducing time and admin costs for public and private sector employers.
Who we’re looking for… View all Jobsgopublic/JGP vacancies
Senior Web Designer – HTML, Javascript, CSS
You can find out all the necessary criteria via the links above, but you also might now like to know a little more about what makes us as an organisation ‘tick’. This information will provide you with a bit of an insight into characters, technical, innovative and fun side that we work in on a daily basis.
So I’ll let you do your research on ‘Why work for Jobsgopublic‘, and if you think you’ve got what it takes to join our team, apply online now!
Social Care recruitment drive
March is definitely the month for Social Care recruitment. There are 2 large scale national recruitment drives happening this month, and a good month to piggy-back off them both as awareness is definitely heightened within the Social Care market.
The Department of Health have lauched a targeted national campaign for Adult and Children Social Care Workers at Social Work and Care. Whilst the Local Government Association (LGA) have also launched a campaign targeting childrens social care workers.
Jobsgopublic are also pleased to have a close association with the DOH Social Care Careers website having developed it in association with the IDeA (Improvement and Development Agency) and the LGA (Local Government Association) several years ago in support of their recruitment drive to ensure candidates could find active vacancies on the website.
If you are interested in a career in Social Care or looking for a new vacancies within Social Care please visit our dedicated Social Care Careers website. If you are already a registered member of Jobsgopublic.com you will be able to use your same login details to apply and save your chosen jobs.
