Ridgeway’s top 5 tips on advertising job vacancies in Witney, Oxfordshire

Feb. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- Here is our guide to advertising job vacancies in Witney, Oxfordshire and beyond:

1.  Use social media – Share the job vacancy on Facebook, Twitter and Linked In and ask all of your contacts to Like, Re-tweet or share it within their circles. Within minutes you could have reached 100s of people.

2. Use traditional methods – Print eye catching flyers and put them up in your office window so passers-by will see it. Pass the flyers round to libraries and local businesses and consider using an a-board to display a large poster if you have somewhere to put it – next to a road or on a main street is ideal.

3. Work your network -Contact your local council and job centre to see what job clubs and notice boards are accessible to you. Contact your local colleges to see if they have anywhere to advertise your vacancy and keep a note of what you find out so that next time you know exactly what you can do. Finally, look through your email address book and forward a polite email asking them to forward the job vacancy details on should they know of anyone who is job hunting. You will be surprised how many people you can reach this way.

4. Word of mouth – Ask around your friends, relations, colleagues and ask them to publicise it. Our current Office Support Administrator job vacancy in Witney http://www.ridgeway.net/about-ridgeway/office-support-adm... has already attracted several applications from people who have been told about it at the school gates or at their regular Zumba class.

5. Look at free advertising – Before spending a fortune on paid advertising, investigate what free advertising is available to you. In Witney we have a dedicated free job website and a wider Oxfordshire ‘Free Ad’ site that accepts our postings. It is worth contacting online job boards and asking whether they would give you one posting for free. It is in their best interests to give you this opportunity to try them out because if you get a lot of applications then you’ll probably be happy to pay next time.

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