Integrating mobile, print and online job hunting

CareerJunction has launched a mobile site to coincide with the new The Times Careers which is available every Tuesday, starting from yesterday, 7 October 2008. The objective is to make job hunting and application processes more accessible to a wider range of job seekers, including those that do not have easy access to the internet.

8 Oct 2008

“With the constant increase in online job hunting we realised that there is a need to offer those job seekers that do not have easy Internet access the opportunity to interact with our service. With over 20 million cellphone users in South Africa we realised that a mobile application would be the ideal media through which to achieve this objective. There is no difference in the application process between our cellphone and website application processes. The cellphone mechanism is just much more convenient to a very wide audience,” says Kris Jarzebowski, CareerJunction CEO.

CareerJunction's partnership with the The Times, has seen thousands of CareerJunction's online jobs published in daily newspaper. Now, from October 2008, all careers in all sectors, all locations and all levels have been brought together in one weekly Tuesday edition. For the first time, the new The Times Careers also includes additional job ad information and branding opportunities for CareerJunction's recruitment agency clients.

The aggregation of jobs into The Times Careers expands the reach of the clients' jobs to over 376 000 readers in LSM categories of 7 - 10. It also ties the traditional and the digital job advertising worlds together.

CareerJunction mobile gives registered CareerJunction CareerSeekers the opportunity to search and apply for jobs using their cellphones, with the ability to customise their application cover letters and email jobs to themselves or friends using their mobile phones.