Jobseekers Advice is a free and independent career advice website, which was launched in September 2002. I set this site up because I posted on a recruitment agencies discussion forums a lot and found that people were asking the same questions I asked years before; how do I find a job? How do I get experience? Where do I go from here?
So, in a nutshell – this website is for the job seeker.
I had a bit of free time on my hands, so I decided to write some more job seekers advice articles along with recruitment consultant Rich Wootten (who also posted on the forums regularly). Those first 20 articles, a modest links section and an empty discussion forum become www.jobseekersadvice.com on the 30th September 2002.
JobseekersAdvice received 1,000 job seekers to the site in our first month alone and that figure continued to rise month by month to around 40,000 visitors in October 2003, only one year later, then up to 80,000 in November 2004. At that point our job seeker forums had become more active and we had received over 100 more articles from people around the world for the site. Just shows what can be achieved by a few people giving up their time and with no budget! Shame big businesses don’t put half the effort into helping people as the volunteers do on this site. Ah well……
About Scott
I’ve worked in Internet marketing for the past 10 years (around about the same time I setup this website).
I’ve had loads of jobs in the past, particularly in my early years when I first setup this website in 2002. I then moved onto agency work and finally spent over 5 years as a freelance consultant before moving back to agency work last year. Over the years I’ve continued to maintain this website (with varying degrees of success). In December 2011, I decided to redevelop the website and move it over to a new content management system (which is why many of the old posts appear to be posted in December 2011 – most are from 2003 to 2006).
Needless to say, I am pretty experienced at job hunting and interviews, but I am by no means an expert. That’s why we have a wide range of articles on the site on the same subjects – people can take what they need from each of them and make their own mind up.
I firmly believe there are no set answers to the questions people have in this industry – so all we can do is provide the information to help people with their decisions.
We can offer job seekers something unique – a combination of professional knowledge and experience from the volunteers who contribute to our site, and the benefit of real experience from real job seekers.
What we have to offer
Well, information. And lots of it!
Our articles have been either written in house by our volunteers or have been submitted by businesses or individuals in the recruitment industry (some even by jobseekers themselves).
Our main feature is our career advice discussion forum. We have spent the past few years building it into a community. But unfortunately the nature of the industry means a lot of people don’t come back (most don’t need to).
But we have a solid core of regular visitors which includes our moderating team, without whom the forum would be an impossible task for me to maintain. On the forum you can ask anything about looking for a job or your career. You can even have your CV appraised for free.
What we are not
- We aren’t a recruitment agency. We can’t find you a job.
- We can’t deal with career advice by email (that’s what the forum is for).
- We aren’t a business. I make a little money from the site which goes to hosting costs. No luxury holiday’s here!
Final Note
Welcome to JobseekersAdvice!
If you are here looking for help with something, then I hope you find what you are looking for. If you are here to help out and offer others the benefit of your experience, then thank you! We need more people like you.