50,000 Creative Candidates Riding The Market Upturn On Creativepool

July 21, 2009 - PRLog -- Creativepool, the UK’s largest jobs board for the creative industries, has reached the magic milestone of 50,000 registered members.

With the recruitment industry suffering its worse period for many years, it’s encouraging to see signs the market picking up within the creative industry. One of the biggest signs of recovery, and unthinkable 6 months ago, is the number of high street retailers now advertising vacancies online. Argos, ASOS, Body Shop, Debenhams, Homebase, John Lewis and Selfridges are all on recruitment drives and using Creativepool to find their new staff within the creative sectors.

The current financial climate is seeing many companies making cut-backs and when it comes to recruitment, there really are ways to save substantial amounts of money. A recruitment agency will typically take between 15-25% of a salary as commission which, when looking at a salary of £30,000 or more, is quite a cost to burden.

With job boards offering a massively cost effective model, websites like Creativepool are well positioned to make the most of the market upturn. With companies beginning to entertain the idea of hiring again, but not wanting to spend thousands of pounds on recruitment fees, job boards like Creativepool are offering those in charge of the purse strings an attractive alternative.

Creativepool, already the largest jobs board for the creative industries, has just signed up its 50,000th candidate to the site which has confirmed its status as the UK’s first destination for any business looking to hire a creative individual. To mark the occasion, they’re giving away £5,000 worth of training courses and t-shirts from Academy Class and Limited Ink. For more information, you can visit http://www.creativepool.co.uk/50000

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Creativepool is the UK's largest recruitment resource for the creative industries. With over 50,000 members and more than 3,500 businesses using the service, it's the best place to find design, advertising, illustration, web design and media candidates.