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Jobsgopublic back up and running
Good morning Jobseekers,
Just a quick post to let you all know that Jobsgopublic is back in action. The DOS attack experienced yesterday meant that we were offline for Friday afternoon and evening, but our technical team of engineers worked at it over the very early hours and have got the site back up to it’s job searching best.
Again we want to reiterate that no client or candidate data was interferred with, and this was our priority at all times.
Happy jobseeking
Deja Vu Security Breach for Monster.co.uk
An article on the BBC website today confirmed that a Monster security breach had indeed occurred to their internal database.
Read Monster’s response on their website
We’ve previously blogged about Job Board Security in December 2007, that time the hackers had managed to access the ‘back end’ of their system. This time it seems they managed to illegally access certain contact and account data “including Monster users IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, telephone numbers and some basic demographic data”.
The information that was accessed this time does not include their online CV and resume database.
Obviously a breach of this magnitude sends shockwaves through the online jobs board market. We at Jobsgopublic are constantly reviewing and testing our security, but again to explicitly detail our security arrangements would be to hand our platform to the hackers. However we would still like to advise our jobseekers to be aware of phishing emails requesting specifically your login details or any other type of information.
Participants in Noras 2008 noted that jobseekers use on average 5 recruitment sites when looking for a job, making it vitally important candidates change their passwords and amend their account details if they believe a security breach has taken place on their Monster account.
We provided some valuable links in our last blog post regarding security, however I am including them in here to ensure as an internet user, you are well informed on phishing and website security.
Email Phishing Scams
About.com phishing information
Anti-Phishing Working Group
National Consumers League (USA)
Hoax Slayer
Identity Fraud – General On-Line Security
Think You Know
Home Office
Stay Safe Online
Direct Gov Information
Articles about the January 2009 Monster Security Breach
BBC Online
ZDNet
Bloomberg.com
Crunch Time – New Audit Commission Report
Quite a name for the latest Audit Commission Report, ‘Crunch Time’ released December 2008 gives us insight into some of the trends and issues facing local authorites now, and potentially over the next 2 years.
Download: Audit Commission Report – Crunch Time
The report also places emphasis on local authorities to not only ‘balance the books’, but to take a proactive role in their ability to provide stability to their areas as a whole. Identified as a longer-term challenge, the local authorities role to promote economic development through their role in strategic partnership, planning and development control powers.
More recently, central government laid out its expectations for local authorities within the CLG Framework for Regeneration. The government expects that local authorities will:
‘Lead the delivery of economic development, and physical and social regeneration in their areas, marshalling the input of all partners within the priorities set out in this framework, and shaping and playing a role in delivering regional strategies.’
Alongside the original report of the Tackling Worklessness Review, central government envisage a bigger role for local authorities in addressing worklessness.
Has traditional recruitment advertising ever changed?
In 1792 the US postal service was created, France declared war on Austria beginning the French Revolution, oranges were introduced to Hawaii and the first printed job advertisement appeared in the Times Newspaper.
216 years later the world has moved on in all cases except one – the recruitment advert. Printed on 31 December 1792 in the Times, the advertisement is not as old fashioned as it should be.
Candidates today are migrating online much faster than the employers are, mainly because they are locked into their legacy driven approach to change. It’s the old adage of bunging everything into the press irrespective of the fact that it doesn’t work and is really expensive because that is what they have always done. This is a succession planning issue, when people retire and move on from positions of authority this way of working will disappear.
At the moment in the public sector we have 31% of the workforce that is due to retire in the next decade actually calling the shots – and the question is how linked into today’s thinking are these people? To the younger generation this just compounds the gaps associated with the sector, because they are still relying on these quaint, traditional methods.
Surely, in this day and age the future is online.
