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HEI Online Recruitment seminar

UserMetrics have been invited by a client to speak at a series of seminars. The 'Online Recruitment for the HEI sector' seminar is being organised by Jobs.ac.uk and will be running in London, Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

We'll be presenting the results of a small benchmark usability test. The key finding was that jobseekers have real difficulty in locating the 'current vacancies' section of University web sites. The sites tested were:

Online resources

We've made our presentation and video highlights available online:
Presentation:
Download as PDF (207kb)
Video clips - suitable for fast broadband only:
View the main link title example (8.9mb)
View the search engine example (8.2mb)
View the 'direct advert link' example (13.2mb)
View the problematic job category name example (2.7mb)

Further information

If you would like to see all of the usability test footage for your organisation, or arrange a presentation at your institution, please contact Rik Pipe on 024 7685 3222 or r.pipe@usermetrics.net.