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.

Rather than answering the same job seeker questions time after time, I decided to compile some of the key points into 6 articles which I published on my very first website, www.weeboab.co.uk , a Scottish Information Directory.

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 me

I'm a web designer. Well, right now I am - that may change by the time this is published!

I've had a lot of jobs in the past - mostly temp jobs. I studied a BA in Marketing and Information Management and have since gained experience in Finance, IT, Marketing, Sales, Admin, Customer Service in many industries ranging from national charities (Disability information and Arts) to Government / Council (Scottish Executive, Edinburgh Social Work Department) to Insurance and Banking with multinationals. I also moderate other discussion forums, have setup more websites, am a member of MENSA UK and I'm damn good looking to boot! ;)

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). Have a look at each of our sections for lists of our articles:

These sections also contain links to external sites for more information.

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.

Best Wishes

Scott Boyd

Webmaster and Founder

www.jobseekersadvice.com

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