Bradley Scott Windows

Another of our clients has reached the final of a prestigious business award for tradesmen and why not help them shout it from the roof tops!

Bradley Scott Windows has reached the final 10 of a national competition to find Britain's No 1 Tradesman - a quite amazing achievement.

Here is their press release and we wish them well for the final announcement, which takes place on November 12th 2009:

Local Tradesman Shortlisted for National Award

Upvc Window Specialist from Tamworth is selected as one of the Britain’s top 10 tradesmen.

After a nationwide search to find the top UK tradesmen, local Window Company Bradley Scott Windows Ltd who specialises in the supply and installation of upvc windows, doors and conservatories, has been selected as one of the top ten finalists and is now in the running for the ultimate accolade of Britain’s No 1 tradesman.

TrustMark, the Government backed not-for-profit quality mark for tradesmen, launched the search in August to find the nation’s top tradesmen – those who combined high quality work with great customer service . Entries were received from tradesmen all over the country from a whole range of different trades including builders, plumbers, electricians, decorators, glaziers, and landscape gardeners.

Cowboy builders and rogue traders are an annual £1.5bn problem for homeowners across the country – that’s £17,123 every hour! The competition was set up to separate the good tradesmen from the bad and highlight the best that British tradesmen have to offer to give them the recognition they deserve.

As one of the top ten finalists, Bradley Scott wins a year’s membership with TrustMark. He is still in with the chance of being Britain’s No.1 tradesman and winning the top prize of £4,000 which will be announced on 12th November 2009.

Good luck for the 12th!

Belmont Jewellers

It's always good to hear of success stories as most of the time we only hear about problems and issues, so it was a pleasure to meet with Alex and Tara from Belmont Jewellers yesterday in London.

Their website has been live for a few months now and although they admit to not promoting it much, they are receiving over 1500 unique vists to their website every month. The purpose of our meeting was to advise them of the next steps; how to increase traffic and awareness.

Thinking that traffic and business was slow, due to the lack of promotional activity, they then told me about the various items they have sold and details of the various enquiries they get!

Tara said, "We are delighted with their new website, we are very pleased with our very international response which we found rather unexpected.

Our website offers a beautiful range of Watches, Antique Jewellery, Art Deco, Diamond pieces and and also a stunning collection of Antique Silver items.

We recieved our very first Antique Silver Order for a pair or 1921 Silver Toast Racks which where sent to an Island off the Scottish Coast.

From our Modern silver Jewellery range we had had personal visitor who choose several of our Art Deco Style Maquisite Bracelets which he viewed first on the website The Phone has also been ringing from people want to sell their Watches and Jewellery.

We even got a call from Alabama."

Now they are going to promote it a little bit more I hope!

Aspire Energy Careers

I am meeting with Steve from Aspire Energy Careers, discussing the pros and cons of blogging and driving traffic to his group of websites.

Aspire Energy Careers offers a range of recruitment services and jobs in the Oil & Gas and renewable energy industry sectors.

New Recruitment Websites

Things are still very busy here for us, with new enquiries coming in every day from new Start Up Businesses and new e-commerce ventures.

We have received orders in the lest couple of days from two new Start Up Recruitment businesses based in London.

One company recruits medical locums across the UK, Asia and The Middle East and the other specialises in recruiting for Local Authorities across the UK.

We are pleased to be assisting them and look forward to monitoring their progress as the build their businesses.

Both projects include Logo Design, the creation of a start up recruitment website and search engine submissions and PR.

Our Start Up Recruitment Website service is specially packaged to get their professional website up and running quickly.

We wish them well for the future.

Food Careers.net

When any of our clients get nominated for awards, then we're more than happy to shout it from the rooftops on their behalf, and I have pleasure in publishing the press release on behalf of one of our long standing clients, Food Careers, from Manchester:

Food Careers nominated for a bunch of National Awards

Food Careers are pleased to announce they have been nominated for Four National Recruitment Awards. The RecruitRank awards ceremony, hosted by leading recruitment website Jobsite, will take place in London on 11 November 2009.

Commenting on the nominations, Food Careers MD Chris Burns states, “What makes the RecruitRank Awards special is the fact that they are the only recruitment awards based solely on candidate feedback, so for our candidates to independently rank our service as excellent is extremely pleasing and I would like to thank our staff for their unwavering focus on customer service which has resulting in the nominations.”

Food Careers, a recruiter to the Food & Drink Manufacturing sector received nominations for the Following Awards:

Best Candidate Communications
Best Understanding of Candidate Needs
Best Industry Knowledge
Best Recruiter

RecruitRank is Jobsite's ground-breaking system that tiers recruitment agencies according to feedback from candidates. If a candidate has applied for a vacancy listed by an agency on Jobsite, they're invited to comment anonymously on four different areas:

Overall impression of the agency
Maintaining contact and updating you on progress
Understanding your needs
Knowledge of your industry sector

Candidates can also leave a written comment if they want to. RecruitRank then collates all the information and ranks the agencies - displaying the Top 10 highest scoring agencies on the Jobsite home page. This is updated daily.

For further information on Food Careers please visit: www.foodcareers.net

We will continue to support Food Careers and wish them well for the future. We also hope they win the awards!

Badenoch & Clark

We are very pleased to announce the launch of three multi language websites for Badenoch & Clark, a leading international specialist recruitment company operating in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

We were flattered to be approahced by them initially, but were able to provide them with a unique, updateable website system.

Most content management systems allow for the input of multiple languages, but the difficulty in creating a truly multi language system is being able to also translate all database fields, jobs titles, drop down menus, jobs by email, registration forms and all of the elements, created from the database.

Our admin system allows for the staff of Badenoch & Clark to log on and update their database in French, German and Dutch.

This is our initial launch press release:

“We are pleased to announce the launch of three multi language websites for Badenoch & Clark.

The websites are www.badenochandclark.de, www.badenochandclark.lu and www.badenochandclark.nl

The websites use the Virtual Consultant updateable recruitment website system, which has been upgraded to allow for the addition and display of all website content in different languages.

Each website has its own administration system where content can be added and edited in a designated language and all database fields, forms, vacancies and search boxes can also now be translated and updated without our intervention.

This is a truly self updateable, multi language, website system which can now be utilised in conjunction with our new website translation services.

This website system now allows any recruitment business to target new overseas markets.”

We are proud to support Badenoch & Clark with their European operations.

Oxford University Press Multi Job Posting

After a very long tender process, during which we made several presentations and submitted a number of proposals, we are very pleased that the new multi job posting, online recruitment system for Oxford University Press is being "soft launched" at the moment.

This system is a bespoke online recruitment system, which allows Oxford University Press to advertise jobs, events and courses on behalf of their clients, across over 200 of their journal websites.

This has been achieved using a bespoke version of our Virtual Consultant online recruitment system.

Oxford University Press log on to a single administration centre and then select the journal website to which they wish to post the job, course or event. They can select locations and other websites on to which they wish to advertise.

Once submitted, it is delivered to the website within an Inline Frame (Iframe).

The system allows them to report on viewing statistics, click through statistics, popular keyword searches and more.

Here is our initial press release:

"Zero-One Design Limited are pleased to announce the launch of a new multi job posting, online recruitment system, for Oxford University Press.

The new system allows Oxford University Press to advertise jobs, events and courses across over 200 of their journal websites using a single, online administration centre.

Other features allow the Oxford University Press to monitor and record viewing statistics, popular keyword searches, click through statistics and more for each job, course and event.

Oxford University Press, a department of the University of Oxford, furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The world's largest and most international university press, Oxford University Press currently publishes more than 6,000 new books a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs some 5,000 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Read more about here - www.oup.co.uk.

We look forward to supporting Oxford University Press with this exciting new venture."

We will display more details about this in due course.