Although lesser known in the U.S. – aside from an acquisition here and there – well-known-in-its-homeland, UK-based JobServe has redesigned its Web site.
Before
After
Nothing earth-shatteringly different here, but aside from a design much more SEO-conscious and misspelling favorite, I thought the way they divided the globe into three parts, utilizing different TLDs (.us, .com.au) and serving them up based on IP address or selecting them was noteworthy. As the global rush heats-up, the designs should be interesting.
Popularity: 2% [?]
July 13th, 2007 at 3:00 am
In the U.S., ‘favorite’ would be the correct spelling – but nobody in the US has really heard of Jobserve so I guess they’re catering to their primary markets in Australia and the UK, where ‘favourite’ is the correct spelling. Same goes for labor / labour, program / programme, pavement / sidewalk and torch / flashlight.
I’m surprised you haven’t commented on the outrageous SEO spam on their search results page for IT jobs. Not a great look.
July 13th, 2007 at 8:35 am
My comment about the misspelling was mostly in jest, but thanks for the clarification. If you’d like to comment on the spam, be my guest. I have a lot going on to review every single site that becomes the inspiration for a blog post.
November 6th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
JOBSERVE Executives
Again, a disappointing poor performance by JOBSERVE’S EXECUTIVES, BOARD MEMBERS, TECHNICAL VP’s, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR’s, TECHNICAL MANAGER’s, Project manager’s and programmer’s for the so-called product that they introduced to the United States of America. This so called conversion has been in the works for one year and an there should not be so many problems and issues and HUGE glaring mistakes. This gives the impression that JOBSERVE does not know what is going on with their so-call US Jobserve site or maybe JOBSERVE just does not care about the US Division but rather only lining your pockets with US DOLLARS. Does JobServe expect that paying clients in the United States will continue to pay for such an all timeconsuming and usless product?
On Dice or Monster job boards and numberous other job boards, a paying client can review 20-40 resumes and determine which one they want to down load and then download the resumes compared to just trying to open and view one (1) candidate resume from JOBSERVE. In other words it take one click from Dice or Monster and other job boards to review and download compared to JOBSERVE’S 6 clicks per candidate and you may or maynot be able to review all the candidate information. Hummm. . . . another example of a timeconsuming useless product.
Every Client paying for JobServe’s services should write in to explain how many problems and issues they have had with this product. Maybe then you might get inspired to resolve all of the huge time consuming issues and problems with so-call JOB SERVE US.
Our organization was told that “Well the candidates really love this website.” If this so, then why doesn’t JobServe have the candidates pay for the use of this site instead of the current paying clients because if you did, you would have a mob of candidates searching you down to get their money back. Hummm, maybe JobServe should give back all the money that they took from paying client’s within the United States for JobServe’s inability to provide a useable product.