From 1997 to 2003, the online recruitment industry has seen significant growth. New placements via the Internet have grown from less than 1%, to 20% in that time. According to its own client base, CareerJunction has evidence of even higher number of placements in certain sectors of industry. "When a recruitment agency places over 30% of its total candidates from services via the Internet, everyone needs to sit up and take note," says Kris Jarzebowski, MD of CareerJunction.
With this trend continuing, the alliance between Mail & Guardian Online and CareerJunction, now offers a greater variety of jobs on the Internet for its readers. The website's jobs section will piggy-back on Career Junction's powerful career search tool.
Matthew Buckland, Editor of Mail & Guardian Online explains: "The Mail & Guardian Online pulled in about 210 000 readers last month and the jobs section proved to be one of the most popular destinations for our readers. This partnership is all part of an effort to upgrade and improve the Mail & Guardian Online's job and recruitment offering for our growing readership. Jobs and recruitment is a key growth and revenue generation area for online publishers and the online industry in general, which is why the Mail & Guardian Online has chosen to partner with CareerJunction."
Kris Jarzebowski, comments: "The partnership with M&G is in line with our overall strategy to bridge the divide between online and print media. The Mail & Guardian has had a great amount of success in focusing on high-calibre professional, media, NGO, public service and academic appointments and have to a large extent cornered some of these sectors."
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