History

The Leisure Vacancies Job Site was first started in 2004 by a team of recruitment professionals. It was started as a feeder for a recruitment agency, Sportaces Recruitment. The site quickly took on a prominence in the search engines which justified running it as a business in its own right, aside from the recruitment consultancy. In it’s first year the site saw over 25,000 visitors, encouraging the owners to increase their time input in the job site and decrease the business activities of the Recruitment Agency for which it was originally founded. At the beginning the site was launched as a “Recruit4Free” Service. At this time the back end of the site was relatively simple and unsophisticated. Few processes in the employer control panel were automated, and there was not a very comprehensive system with which Employers could interact. In 2006, the site started to see changes. A new recruitment software system was implemented, enabling a number of sophisticated functions. Employers were now able to utilise a jobseeker email system, easily duplicate jobs, search a CV database, buy credits online and a lot more. The site was still a little awquard looking and the majority of revenue was through advert placement by Google and other similar agencies. This was not to change for another two years. 2009 saw a renewed vigour for the site, with the management team rebranding the site and further improving the employer and job seeker experience. The site was still mainly monetized by external ads, but this was shortly going to change. A revamp over recent months has made the site more attractive, faster loading, more search engine friendly, which has increased employer advertising exponentially. The management have just agreed plans for extensive PPC advertising and have employed the services of leading search promotion company Egnut.com to further organic search engine rankings across the search platforms. Additionally, a team have been recruited to place job adverts on the site on behalf of employers… saving clients time and making the process of keeping their latest jobs on the site as easy as it can be. Hundreds of new site partnerships have been established, and a 5 strong sales team have been employed to expound the benefits of the recruitment platform to the thousands of sites that will surely benefit from it over the coming weeks and months. The final piece in the jigsaw has been slotted in over recent weeks in the form of a job credit system. This allows employers to purchase job advets in a credit system and then use those credits to add their jobs to the site. Job credits are just £30 each, and the management have already agreed further discounts for high volume clients. With over 1000 jobs on the site the site really has come a long way…