Finding good part time staff

[mel121]

With the credit crunch and general scaling back we've been told that our recruitment budget is very limited - so I thought I'd share some information that might be of interest to you as I recently had an email from a new job board called myparttimejob.co.uk offering the opportunity to post jobs for free. Given my lack of resources I thought the offer was probably too good to be true but so far I've had quite a few decent CVs - so if any of you are in the same boat and haven't yet been contacted it might be of interest.

[retailworld]

Welcome to the board Mel.

How did you find out about that site? Do you know who runs it? Might be interested in talking to them.

[mel121]

Hi Richard

I found out about it through my friend who works in recruitment advertising - she'd been contacted with the 'free trial' offer and passed the info on to me. Not sure who runs it but the person who I've been speaking to - who was very helpful - is Jonquil Coy - 020 7242 6274.

[m8internet]

How did you find out about that site? Do you know who runs it? Might be interested in talking to them.
A quick WHOIS and it looks like a private individual :
http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=myparttimejob.co.uk

I am extremely cautious now about subscribing to such websites after Reed Recruitment may have sold the email address I submitted
I know it was them as it was unique to them
When I subscribe I use a unique email address, and this makes it much easier to trace and report the spam!

[retailworld]

I am extremely cautious now about subscribing to such websites after Reed Recruitment may have sold the email address I submitted
I know it was them as it was unique to them


Surely a high-profile company such as Reed would have a decent privacy policy in place?



When I subscribe I use a unique email address, and this makes it much easier to trace and report the spam!


That sounds like a good idea - bit time-consuming though if you subscribe to a lot of sites!

For the record (albeit off-topic), Retail Forum DOES NOT share your email address (or any details for that matter) with any other companies or individuals.

[retailworld]

Hi Richard

I found out about it through my friend who works in recruitment advertising - she'd been contacted with the 'free trial' offer and passed the info on to me. Not sure who runs it but the person who I've been speaking to - who was very helpful - is Jonquil Coy - 020 7242 6274.

Have you advertised with them? It seems to link to quite a few of the 'big' retailers.

[m8internet]

That sounds like a good idea - bit time-consuming though if you subscribe to a lot of sites!
Not really as you need to type in the email address
I have an ISP account that allows generic email addresses, I also used it to subscribe here
I have caught a few companies out by this method

british-gas@isp.com
I used this for an offer they had, not interested in newsletters, updates, blah, blah
A few months later I started getting other stuff
When I contacted the company sending out the spam, a well known company, they confirmed that they had had my email address supplied from Centrica, a British Gas company
Since I reported it and received an apology from British Gas, I've not received any emails to that address
Equally, I can setup that ISP webmail so that any emails to that email address just get spam trapped

[mel121]

Hi

Yes I have advertised on myparttimejob and got a good response.

[emmab]

Have you had much luck then