kevinh
07-11-2007, 12:11 PM
On Monday this week Westfield launched a new job board called "Jobs in Retail" (JIR) www.jobsinretail.com.au (http://www.jobsinretail.com.au) .
The site is “powered by MyCareer” who are also managing the site, and promoting it to employers – but NOT apparently to recruitment firms! (according to one prominent retail recruitment specialist).
There doesn’t appear to be any pricing on the JIR site, and it says “Retailers wanting to advertise jobs on Jobs in Retail should register by contacting MyCareer Customer Service”.
Assuming retailers won’t advertise on both JIR and MyCareer, the price of advertising on JIR must be higher than a typical MyCareer ad, otherwise it wouldn’t make commercial sense for MyCareer, given they will be sharing the revenue with Westfield.
The site has plenty of job ads on it, mostly originating from recruiters but pre dating the site launch, so presumably they have just copied jobs from the MyCareer site, but not all of them – there are still 3-4 times the number of retail ads on the MyCareer site.
Incidentally, the phone is answered as “Jobs in Retail” but the operators seem to have access to MyCareer’s database, despite the fact that JIR is owned by Westfield!
It would be interesting to know where the initiative for JIR came from – Westfield or MyCareer. I can understand why MyCareer would spin off a niche job board from their main site but I can’t understand why they would do it for Westfield.
At the end of the day, there is now yet another place where retail job seekers need to look for jobs …
The site is “powered by MyCareer” who are also managing the site, and promoting it to employers – but NOT apparently to recruitment firms! (according to one prominent retail recruitment specialist).
There doesn’t appear to be any pricing on the JIR site, and it says “Retailers wanting to advertise jobs on Jobs in Retail should register by contacting MyCareer Customer Service”.
Assuming retailers won’t advertise on both JIR and MyCareer, the price of advertising on JIR must be higher than a typical MyCareer ad, otherwise it wouldn’t make commercial sense for MyCareer, given they will be sharing the revenue with Westfield.
The site has plenty of job ads on it, mostly originating from recruiters but pre dating the site launch, so presumably they have just copied jobs from the MyCareer site, but not all of them – there are still 3-4 times the number of retail ads on the MyCareer site.
Incidentally, the phone is answered as “Jobs in Retail” but the operators seem to have access to MyCareer’s database, despite the fact that JIR is owned by Westfield!
It would be interesting to know where the initiative for JIR came from – Westfield or MyCareer. I can understand why MyCareer would spin off a niche job board from their main site but I can’t understand why they would do it for Westfield.
At the end of the day, there is now yet another place where retail job seekers need to look for jobs …