Client Industry links
The International Association of Employment Web Sites is the trade association for the global online employment services industry - Members more than 40,000 employment sites that serve job seekers, employers and recruiters worldwide
NORAS is the UK’s leading source of independent and objective information on the audiences of job boards. NORAS 2008 uses data from questionnaires completed by 40,601 online job seekers across 25 of the UK's leading job boards. NORAS often works in partnership with ABCe
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people. They have 130,000 individual members.
(Websearch staff are members)
ABC ELECTRONIC (ABCe) works on behalf of the industry to manage standards for electronic media measurement so that every part of the industry can have confidence in the data they use. ABCE is independent, industry owned, not-for-profit and a subsidiary of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). In essence, ABCE provides independent verification of the high numbers of quality jobseekers that use various job boards every day. ABCe often works in partnership with NORAS.
Free and independent advice to help jobseekers, employers and employment agencies to make better use of online recruitment.
(Websearch are members)
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is the trade body that supports and represents the recruitment industry. Recruitment is a £26.673 billion industry responsible for the 1,377,740 temporary workers out on assignment in any given week and for placing over 787,000 employees in permanent work each year.
ATSCo is a dynamic and pro-active trade association representing the specific needs of the IT, communications and engineering staffing industries.
The Recruitment Society
The Recruitment Society is a forum for new trends in Recruitment and retention. The Society was founded in 1979 as a Society for people working primarily in the area of recruitment advertising and consultancy. It has evolved to include everyone working in and having an interest in all aspects of recruitment, including HR specialists.
(Websearch are members)
Onrec is an information website for the internet recruitment industry. They run exhibitions and conferences, list suppliers to the industry and publish an Online Recruitment Magazine for HR Directors, Personnel Managers and Recruiters with information on the internet recruitment industry.
Each year Best Companies and The Sunday Times celebrate the best small, mid-size and big workplaces in the UK. Employees from participating organisations are surveyed based on a rigorous methodology. This enables Best Companies to compile lists of the 100 top companies in each size category which The Sunday Times publish. Every year the prestige of this list builds, making this the competition that every organisation wants to be involved in.
