fish4jobs.co.uk

Advantages: Alot of jobs
Disadvantages: Slow server

Fish4jobs is one of the most popular online recruitment sites around at the moment. With over 44,500 jobs currently available through this website it certainly does not lack content. I have used fish4jobs for over 5 months now in the hope to find a good graduate IT job in the Yorkshire region, here are my opinions on what I have found. GENERAL Fish4Jobs is part of the Fish4 family, which includes fish4cars and fish4homes. The site is a single frame ...
...design looks really slick, recently it has been redesigned and this is a great improvement. The colour scheme is the same across the sight (light blue right through to dark blue with white background). The site has difficulties with Linux default browser but it works find with IE5 and Navigator. The amount of advertising is worrying though. Apart from the standard banner at the top of each page, they have adverts under the left menu system and also ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of jobs
Disadvantages: Incorrect job matches

I would like to start by just showing my opinion about online-recruitment, most of the online-recruitment websites are just lists of jobs, the better websites have a larger network of agencies so therefore a larger list of jobs. I was recently unemployed so I thought that I would take a look at the jobsites and see what they have to offer. I tend to find that I was looking through the same jobs across all the sites and applying through various emails. ...
...but I was looking for something special, not just a database of jobs. I would much rather prefer a service that makes me feel they are really interested in getting its users jobs that suit them, something that was a little more personal and wasn’t just a computer matching service. A lot of websites do have CV registration, however I felt that if they spent more time on finding new jobs and advertising them it would be a lot more beneficial ... Read review

Advantages: Appears easy
Disadvantages: Poor searhces and irrelevant jobs returned. Confusing help section

I have recently been between jobs and thought I would look at Fish4jobs after I saw an advert on the TV. I got to the site and was greeted by a simple to use job searcher - or was it? I thought as this was a serious thing, I should read all the items and check I knew what I was doing. When I read the description in the help though, I wasn't really helped at all. In fact, it was a total waste of time stating only the obvious. An example was in the ...
...you that 'this is where you should transcribe (why not put write?) the directory area into which you should prefer the location of your job to be held.' Thanks, I am more confused now than I was before I read the darn help. So, neglecting the help file I began to plough through using my own common sense, easy enough. I put in for a search for Customer Service jobs within 20 miles of Swindon. I got 34 jobs show up. Great I thought, until I found out ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of national jobs.
Disadvantages: VERY bad search engine and refinement process.

My mum just got sacked, so I thought I'd go on the Internet and find her a new one. She had just seen the advert for Fish4hobs on the TV and told me to go there first. So I clicked on the Secretarial, Ofiice & Support button and started a search. The screen looked quite good, it had lots of "Search tips" buttons down the side, which just explained the functioning of the boxes, which were pretty self-explanatory labled as "job title" and "location", ...
...language very well would need. Even then the search tips page wasn't very helpful, it just said the obvious pretty much. The search engine was really bad. I did a search set at 20 miles around Newport, which showed up results in Central Woking, Newtown (in Tewkesbury). As I didn't want one there I further refined the search, and this threw up the result of a "Technical Support Engineer" in and around Ireland and Scotland, this wouldn't have been ... Read review

Advantages: Variety: Recruiter profiles, psychometric tests and lots of jobs.
Disadvantages: Takes a long time

After finding my new house on the fish4 Homes site, I thought that finding a job with the fish4 Jobs site would be equally successful. How wrong I was! To be fair, I think that the strengths and limitations that are largely dependant on what you want it to do. For those who have a clear idea of the sort of job they want, set up a few agents on Monster.com and you will be laughing, it is quicker and more thorough. If, like me, you are new to a location, ...
...of jobs in the area and the types of companies you should send your CV to, then this site is perfect. For example, if you are looking for a job that has a clear title, i.e. Retail Manager or Software Engineer etc. then be prepared to sift through loads of jobs. The jobs are grouped into sets of 10 SUMMARIES and it takes AGES to get through the screens. In addition, the ‘DESCRIPTION’ on the summary comprises of the first few lines of ... Read review