In March, four German publishers; Neue Deister-Zeitung, Deister-Leine-Zeitung, Schaumburger Zeitung and Schaumburg-Lippische Landes-Zeitung have launched new job sites using the MatchWork platform and technology...

This year’s response has increased to record high of 60%. We very much appreciate the support our customers have given us and are very pleased with the feedback we have received.

MatchWork helps you to turn global crisis into new opportunities.

As much as we would like to, - we cannot bring your print ad volume back and we cannot make the world financial crisis disappear. What we can do is assist you with ideas to optimize, revolutionize or, for the newcomer; break through on the digital side with a professional and user-friendly job board solution

We have read with interest a number of recent articles regarding the growing importance of online within the recruitment sector. There were two in particular that really caught our eye and, together they give an interesting insight into the current market and also what we can expect over the next few years.

During 2008, activity levels on job sites have increased dramatically compared to the levels in 2007.

Analysis of the activities on the job sites powered by MatchWork shows a very clear and positive trend – job search on the Internet is booming.

The prognosis for 2009 is that job advertising will decline in response to economic conditions. It is difficult to argue against this and, while the extent of the decline will vary in MatchWork markets, the stage is set for negative growth.

Matching is a unique and very valuable feature of the MatchWork proposition and no-one has yet come close to challenging the power and accuracy of our algorithm.

In October MatchWork participated in two interesting events organised by the International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA) – the European Conference in Vienna and the INMA/IFRA Classified Advertising Seminar in Prague.

The research by Nielsen found that, in November 2008, 10.3m Britons visited at least one of the ten most popular newspaper websites compared to 8.3m last year, representing growth in online audience of 23%.

According to a new report by the Online Publishers Association, local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers. The study finds that consumers tend to trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine and television websites and are very likely to take action after viewing ads on such sites.

We never tire of saying ‘knowledge is power’ and these three new reports will support our publishing partners’ sales development process in more explicit ways.

We have seen great success around our partner network for those that have focused on the following areas. If you’re not currently doing so, we recommend that you consider these to also benefit from such results!

MatchWork is very pleased to experience that our partners continue to be very active with upgrading and adding new features to their job sites. Below you can see examples of some of our newly joined UK partners as well as existing partners who have added some of the 'hot' features described in the article from our MatchWork Barometer.

A premium revenue opportunity which you should prioritise within your marketing efforts is to offer your advertisers assistance with matching their needs to the candidates available in your CV Database. So, not only do they advertise online but the relevant exposure to candidates in the CV database is based on the quick and precise matching provided by MatchWork system.

As advertiser demands and requirements evolve, publishers are having to adapt to meet these needs. In our regular conversations with publishers there is a growing desire to focus on online-only job advertising, and to offer digital packages without the inclusion of print products.

MatchWork was present at the 78th INMA World Congress in Los Angeles, USA. Amidst the current atmosphere of “gloom and doom” surrounding the industry, more than 350 delegates came away with a different message from the Congress.

In early June more than 1.800 delegates from all over the world participated in the 61st World Newspaper Congress in Gothenburg organised by WAN (World Association of Newspapers). A large exhibition formed an integrated part of the Congress giving suppliers of techniques and services to the newspaper industry a chance to present themselves.

Sometimes it’s good to visit other newspapers to gain knowledge and experience from industry colleagues with whom you don’t compete and who are therefore ready to share confidential information and experience of “what works and what doesn’t”....

We have now received the results of the first MatchWork Partner Satisfaction Survey which is now established as an annual programme – part of our long-term commitment to our client partners.

It is a great pleasure to introduce our new CTO, Allan Skovgaard Hansen.

MatchWork is building a new front-end production platform with the overall goal of enabling faster client website delivery times. The new platform will also allow clients to manage their own solutions and provide the foundation for the continuous development of user-friendly solutions.

MatchWork’s Roadmap Process for 2008-2009 builds on the new architecture and the expanded range of possibilities our new platform provides to us and, therefore, to you, our client partners.

During the last quarter of 2007 our partners have been very active with upgrading and adding new features to their job sites. These high levels of activity have been evident in all markets.

MatchWork has recently launched a brand new service which allows jobseekers to register and activate their CV quicker and more conveniently than ever before.

MatchWork enjoyed an interesting and successful two days as an exhibitor at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) 18th World Newspaper Advertising Conference and Expo in Budapest, Hungary on 13-14 March 2008

In 2007 we have seen our network of partner publishers continue to expand, with more new job sites and CV matching sites launched. This has seen the CV database grow substantially, meaning more value than ever for advertisers, and partners using CV matching.

We are pleased to be able to announce the following new partner launches since the last newsletter in September 2007.

2007 has been a great year for MatchWork, but this does not mean we aren’t looking forward to moving on to 2008!

“Let yourself be discovered“ is the slogan of the advertising campaign which “Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack”, a group of twelve newspaper publishers in the Lower Saxony region of Germany, has placed in various communication media since September…

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s leading morning daily newspaper, runs two major employment supplements each week with a significant volume of advertising. DN has been a client of MatchWork since 2000 and a classic outsourcing relationship has developed…

Recognising the difference between ‘Search’ and ‘Match’ is the key to understanding the unique power and potential of the MatchWork system.

We are upgrading our own online presence, and you will see the results early in 2008.

Is Google a friend or a foe? Should you be fighting Google’s apparently effortless rise to world dominance or going with the tide?

The managing director of Matchwork UK, Chris Stanley, gave a presentation about online recruitment at the Classified Advertising Seminar organised by the International Newspaper Marketing Association (INMA) and IFRA recently in Warsaw/Poland.

There are thousands of matching advertisements in the system at any given time, a number that is steadily increasing, as is the number of active CVs in the database. As a result...

It is sometimes easy to forget that recruitment sales professionals are actually sales people. Why is this? A lot of the work is incoming, so it is often easy to become an order-taker.

The upcoming client survey and the related follow-up tasks will, from now on, be an annual event - for the benefit of both our client partners, and MatchWork.

Sweden's three largest morning daily papers have joined forces with MatchWork, Europe's leading online classified advertising service provider, to strengthen their own job portals as well as Sweden's largest online job portal.

A new study by the INMA of the alliances between US newspapers and the global Internet giants is thought-provoking, to say the least.

Faced with dramatic classified revenue losses to online, many American publishers have opted for alliances with the online majors in their search for the ‘multi-media’ positioning which is so important to a 400+ year-old newspaper industry now being supplanted in many key revenue areas by a nearly ten-year old competitor.

During the year we have completed the following assignments - all of which have been delivered within tight timeframes. Our guiding policy on website development is quality and stability, but our implementation teams are very aware that ‘time is money’ and work tirelessly to meet often challenging deadlines.

We are constantly monitoring the matching process to ensure we are optimising results and adapting to the changing job market and the needs of advertisers and, in order to extend the visible efficiency of the match process we are now launching a number of...

There was, not so very long ago, a widespread belief among newspaper publishers that the Internet ‘fad’ would, sooner or later, take its place among all other new technologies and ideas and settle, as a further component, into the developing media mix of the 21st century.

Newspaper sites that can point to clear readership profiles and specific regional coverage rate highly in this area.

In April, we initiated a restructuring of the MatchWork development organisation in order to meet the growing needs of our clients.

‘Knowledge is power’ is a saying we all understand and this is the thinking behind our new report structure that we have developed for MatchWork partners.

UK advertisers spent over £4.2bn in the first quarter of 2007, a year-on-year increase of 3% according to the Advertising Association. This report is supported by the optimistic picture painted at the World Association of Newspapers conference in South Africa which presented an encouraging picture of worldwide growth in circulation and revenues.

MatchWork are delighted to be working with Newark Advertiser to provide their online recruitment site.

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is about making sure your website has the right elements and the right layout to be found and highly ranked by search engines like Google.

Publishers looking to win new customer base...

Continual development to keep our publisher partners ahead of the pack...