Prefio.com uses Crowdsourcing to Track the Health of UK Commercial Property and Construction

May 20, 2009 - PRLog -- Founding Director of Prefio.com, Tim Latham today launched a simple and innovative barometer of employment and recruitment in the UK commercial property and construction sectors.  Latham said “In this world of information overload the last thing most of us need is yet another survey.  So we’ve made this survey simple – it only has one question, answered by moving a slider across a scale, and it takes slowcoaches no more than 5 seconds to complete.  That’s my kind of survey!”

Prefio’s business (http://prefio.com) is recruitment in the commercial property and construction sectors and it does so using an innovative angle on crowdsourcing whereby it uses hundreds of industry insiders to guide opportunities to suitably qualified people within their network – for a reward of thousands of pounds.

Latham commented “Our main recruitment business uses some of the crowdsourcing concepts and clearly this micro-survey does too.  The really interesting thing is that there is substantial serious research evidence that asked in an appropriate way, crowds produce better results and more accurate predictions than panels of experts – stuff that James Surowiecki details carefully in his book The Wisdom of Crowds”.

The survey can be found at http://prefio.com/survey and Latham said “In the few hours since we published it already a couple of hundred people have given their views and in the weeks between now and the start of July we would really like as many people as possible to input so that we can publish the most authoritative view on predictions for the UK commercial property and construction sectors as we go into Quarter 3 of 2009”.

The survey is a look forward to the next quarter, so from the beginning of July the survey will address Q4.  Each quarter, Prefio’s referrers and employers will receive the summary report which will address not only overall sentiment but also those specialisms which are expected to fair best and worst.  Those who are not registered with Prefio.com can secure their copy of the report by inputting to the survey and leaving their email address (but it can also be completed completely anonymously).

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Prefio.com is an innovative recruitment solution focused upon professionals in the commercial property and construction sectors.  The most brainpower in recruitment.

Contact details:

Tim Latham, Prefio.com            0800 2888 694   tim@prefio.com

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