Candidate/Jobseeker - Help

Vacancy Searches:

Advanced Vacancy Search for more accurate matching -Company T/O, N^o.of employees etc
Browse by Location -geographical vacancy search
Browse by Sector -industry search
You can access all these vacancy search boxes from our home-page.

CV Posting:

Upload your own CV
Create a new CV on Recruitment Exchange using our CV Wizard
Create an anonymous CV for additional privacy, aimed at employed users interested in receiving targeted opportunities (all communication with agencies/headhunters or potential employers is handled privately through your communication centre found in 'My Place').

Blog Options:

Professional blogs:
- CV and cover letter blogs,
  (you can choose to link your blog to your main CV thereby making it keyword searchable. This blog could hold all your CV variations and also any additional relevant experience, testimonials or images etc)
- Portfolio blogs,
  (where the emphasis of the blog is pictorial, these could be particularly useful for Web Designers, Civil Engineers, Architects etc)
- Sector expert/Topical blogs,
  ( where individuals take it upon themselves to write articles give advice and show themselves to be authorities in their field)
Personal blogs:
- Journals/Networking
  (communicate with other internal/external bloggers via the networks and groups functionality and forums facility. You can join any sector discussion threads, start your own threads, ask questions, network or just chat, it’s your blog).
- You can access all these blog creation tools from the 'Homepage', 'Blog Search' or 'My Place'-your own control and communication center.
- Create a link to your existing blog/s or profiles-if you already have a career blog or profile and you want to make it linkable from Recruitment Exchange you can.
- (see an example blog)
For advanced users and those wishing to learn more about blogging:
- You can create your own HTML via the edit 'HTML tab' on your Recruitment EXCHANGE blog.
- Add meta tag information to your blog (what is a meta tag?)

We will be actively promoting Recruitment Exchange blogs but if you wish you want to promote your blog here's some tips:

Create an Online Profile:

If you want an online presence but don't want to go as far as creating your own blog you can create an online profile and if you wish link it to your main CV so that any keyword search of your CV also searches your profile ensuring no relevant information is missed (see an example).

'My Place' -Jobseekers Communication Centre:

An online record of your applications.
Email central where agencies and potential employers can post messages to your private Recruitment Exchange address; you can then reply or decide if you wish to release any additional contact information.
A history of who has contacted you with a date and timeline.
Manage/Edit your blog, profile and calendar

My Diary: (free diary management and alerts)

Possible uses for permanent and temporary jobseekers:
- record interview dates and times with alerts
- show potential employers or agencies the dates you are available or unavailable for work or interveiws.
- (see Diary Page)

Recruitment Exchanges CV forwarding service:

Via our RE directory you can create your own preferred supplier lists (PSL') of the companies you wish to forward your CV to. So you can send your CV and update information to them all with one click.
Precise targeting for your CV.

Jobs by Email, SMS and RSS:

You can receive jobs by email, SMS and RSS feed that are automatically matched to the search criteria you added. You can have multiple search criteria and change them at any time (add search criteria now).

Other Resources: