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The annual survey of over 4,500 employers indicates that over a quarter of British businesses (604,000) were on the look out to hire new staff last year. The survey indicates that in 2006, 27% of businesses were actively recruiting new staff with 25% of all filled job vacancies advertised online.

The proportion of overall vacancies now being advertised through the Internet has increased to 16% from 12% in 2004, with one in every eight employers surveyed confirming they had used Internet websites to advertise a vacancy in the last 12 months.

This online trend is also being reflected by jobseekers themselves. In a single week in June, the Jobcentre Plus website(www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk) experienced a record 6.6 million job searches conducted by nearly 2.2 million online jobseekers.

Caroline Flint, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform, said: “Employment in the UK continues to show sustained growth. However, if we are to meet our aim of achieving 80% employment we need to work harder still to support more people back into work. Yesterday we published our green paper on In Work, Better Off which sets out the steps to achieving full employment. That included our commitment to new Local Employment Partnerships through which major employers across all key sectors have pledged to create 250,000 jobs to support some of the hardest to help into work.

Here at www.london4jobs.co.uk we are always looking to move with the time and embrace the latest technology to ensure we remain at the forefront of cutting edge online recruitment techniques. Our CV database is showing a 500% month on month growth rate. Our CVs by email service is now critical in getting the latest talent delivered straight to your inbox the moment the register. Speaking of our CVs by Email growth Andrew Milson Technical Manager stated ?CVs by email is now our 2nd most popular package behind job posting. In fact we now send out over 9000 job updates per week to our registered jobseekers. We recently carried out some un-official statistics to find out how we compare to other London job boards and found that we are now the number 3 biggest Generalist London job site, not bad going for a company who are just 12 months old?.

Online job seeking has grown by 76% during the last two years alone and is now used by over 11.1 million people in the UK. Since www.london4Jobs.co.uk was launched it has placed thousands of Londoners into new positions ranging from Hotel Industry workers to FX Traders in the City. Its award winning software offers both job seekers and clients to be paired together at the touch of a button.

We are committed to providing the highest level of service to employers and job seekers in London and The Home Counties.

If you have any enquires do not hesitate to contact us: info@london4jobs.co.uk

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