Government Launches Job Board for Teachers

The Government has launched a web site for schools to use when recruiting. Local newspaper editors are already bleating about the damage this may do to their business. But the biggest benficiary of schools recruitment is TES whose business is almost wholly reliant on this revenue stream.

I am sure there is no conspiracy here, but Bernard Gray, the TES CEO is hardly the most popular man with the incumbent Government having written a scathing report on the state of defence procurement.

Emap was brutally damaged when healthcare recruitment was hijacked by the Government several years ago. The TES is about to experience the same horrors.

Downturn starts to hurt Job Boards

The Guardian reports that Johnston Press is making eight redundancies as it closes the London sales office of its jobs board business.

It is hardly news that regional newspaper groups are having a tough time. but surprising that recruitment - and online recruitment at that, is in the firing line. In the pre online world, it used to be said that when GDP growth falls below 2%, there is a recruitment ad recession. It looks like that may be true in the on line world too.

We might pay particular attention to this news and whether it might mean that RBI's TotalJobs is also feeling the pinch and how that might affect the sale process.