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Rating Summary based on 38 reviews

  • 5 Stars
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  • 3 Stars
    		7
  • 2 Stars
    		7
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  • Database & Search Facilities
  • Ease of registration process
  • Frequency of content update
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  		• 3.8
  		• 3.6
  		• 3.6

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  • 37 of 37 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    BananaMan111

    4 Stars Job Seekers Heaven 20/12/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages brilliantly designed, easy to use, loads of jobs!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sign up process can be lengthy

    reed.co.uk is a great online agency web site that offers thousands of jobs in hundreds of sectors. The site has well over forty thousand recruiters so there is no drought of vacancies. The web site is well designed and very professional and the features of the web site are amazing and I've covered them in more detail later on in this review. I have covered my experience with reed, what I have found, and what my future with them will be. My Experience with reed.co.uk *********************************** -- First Contact -- I first came across reed.co.uk when I was using a search engine to find ... more
  • 25 of 25 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Nicole78

    5 Stars Reed – Easy support to find a new job 10/07/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy and fast applying

    Disadvantages Disadvantages High response for each advertisement

    Currently looking for a new job I gained a lot of experience with online job sites. Therefore I would like to give you some details about www.reed.co.uk in this opinion. How to use the site? The most easiest way to work with reed is to subscribe to the service, means you choose a username and a password and simply login each time to enter the page. Like this you can upload your CV and even save a covering letter which simplifies each application you want to send out. The subscription process is very simple and straight forward. So, what kind of jobs are offered on this page? Accountancy & ... more
  • 51 of 51 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 gideon

    Member since 30/05/2000

    Reviews written: 62

    4 Stars Adult models needed 45k per annum 16/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages search engine, off and online presence

    Disadvantages Disadvantages non centralised database

    Reed Online is a non-centralised recruitment agency with online and offline presence. The office for say New Media may be in Richmond and the Marketing & Sales will be in the City somewhere. This has actually led to some confusion. - more later. The site design is lovely with very easy to use drop down menus and side bar navigation buttons to career the prospective job seeker to his required industry. The search engine is really powerful and can be filtered down to location, keywords, wage etc. The site loks better in I.E than Netscape. Jobseekers can submit their CV and hope for the best. But ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sparkydog

    2 Stars DON'T get your hopes up 16/07/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use, they do get in touch

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Make you feel they can practically guarantee an interview, then you never hear another word

    I tried reed.co.uk after seeing some advertising for them. I was unhappy in my current job and wanted to move on to something new, and this seemed a good way of doing so. It was easy enough to fill in details and upload my CV, and I sat back and waited to see what reed.co.uk would find for me. Sadly my experience with reed.co.uk hasn't been a positive one. To their credit they were the only job site I registered with (and I tried several) who actually called you on the phone with jobs they thought you might be interested in. The problem was that though their staff were very enthusiastic and ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 3 popstar

    Member since 10/03/2001

    Reviews written: 51

    5 Stars Get a new job, and fast.. 08/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages loads of various agencies adverising, free to advertise for agencies

    Disadvantages Disadvantages no ability to see when the jobs were posted

    Reed.co.uk is my favourite of the recruitment websites out there, the fact they offer a free service to agencies to advertise there positions on the website via the FreeCruit section means there is a constantly updated list of vacancies! The service from the website itself is very fast and throws out exactly what you ask from the searches, searching itself is very easy. On the left hand side of the main screen is drop down boxes where you can pick the various search criterias, and when you've found them, if your registered all you have to do is click 'apply online' and if your registered it ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    kkjc9734

    3 Stars Search engines and CV banks not in service 07/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages numerous vacancies

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not reliable services

    I tried to approach various vacancies, which were available on the reed.co.uk web site recently but with no success. I was quite happy and satisfied when I saw the search engines and the numerous positions advertised but whenever I decided to apply sending my CV online via the reed system everything was not working. I received a few e-mails from Reed partner agencies asking me to resend my CV as the Reed online CV bank services are not in service. Furtheromore, after applying for certain positions I was receiving calls from various recruitment consultants asking me what kind of job I was ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sim5

    2 Stars REED HAD the JOBS but did NOTHING 08/08/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Liked the website design and layout

    Disadvantages Disadvantages From my experience, they haven't done anything for me at all

    I registered with the Reed graduates about a year ago now after I was recommended the website from my university careers service. Since then I have searched for graduate and non graduate jobs on a regular basis and guess what???? they have exactly the kind of jobs that am looking for. They may have the type of jobs that I am looking for but I have never ever got a response from any of the jobs I have applied for. I can understand that there are most probably people who meet the job criteria closer then I do and therefore I am not contacted. However I have never been contacted by a Reed ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 bella6789

    Member since 16/02/2009

    Reviews written: 134

    5 Stars The Best Jobs Web Site By A Mile 02/03/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Can search for jobs advertised directly by the employer.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very few if any.

    I joined this web site about 5 months ago to look for a job. I also joined numerous other web sites. Although not perfect and needing some improvements in my opinion, I have found reed.co.uk to be the best of the job web sites that I have used. There are two reasons for this; firstly you can filter out all employment agency advertised jobs and only get results of jobs advertised direct by employers. In the current very tough job market I believe this is a very important option to have because in general if you apply to an agency you are very unlikely to be offered an interview unless you fit ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    corman

    4 Stars Fine if you want to move down south 04/08/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages online, web site easy to use, breaks down categories for you

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not too many, if any, vacancies north of the border

    I was recently surfing the recruitment agencies online and had a go with Reed as I've temped with them in the past. The web site itself is easy to use, and you can search using geographical, occupational and salary criteria, and also whether or not you're looking for graduate jobs. I'm not sure whether or not their online is in synch with their local branches, but even looking for IT jobs I could barely find any for Scotland, and definitely not for the north of Scotland. I also had a look for administrative posts out of curiosity and also came up with 'nil points'. The majority of jobs are ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    oniony2k

    4 Stars Great job seeking site 09/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Let the jobs find you

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    "Let the job finds you", this is their slogan in television advertisement. I know this site from TV. I am not actually looking for jobs. I just registered for future use. I am now currently doing my PhD studies in Southampton University. I like this site (although I haven't really gone through any interviews with the jobs that recommended by reed.co.uk). Why? Perhaps I have been fed up by other online recruitment sites, which I have to browse all the job titles, benefits, features and so on, investigate them one by one. If you register with reed.co.uk, you don't have to do it - browsing ... more
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