Reed.co.uk

As many of you will have seen last week (particularly those working as rec cons), Reed.co.uk is moving over to a charged model for people posting over 500 jobs per year. Over on Louise's UK recruiter blog / forum the fire has been raging and recruiters seem particularly unhappy about the whole thing, one even claimed that small firms would "go to the wall!" Something of an overreaction IMHO.

Lets face it Reed.co.uk were always going to do this in some way and it was only a matter of time, personally I think it's a good thing, it may move consultants away from the "post everything, even if it's not a real job" mentality (though of course no one would ever consider posting a fake job on a recruitment site!).

Reed allowed emplyers to flood the site with a huge number of jobs and it led to the argument every salesperson working on a recruitment site has heard hundreds of times... "why won't you give me a free trial when I can post jobs for free on Reed?".

Now maybe recruiters will start to value their job postings a little higher and think a bit more about what they put on the site, how they word job specs (because there are still some horrendous examples of job postings out there even after all this time) and how they monitor the response.
Personally I say well done Reed.co.uk for taking the step!