MrWeb to add interviewer and coder opportunities

MrWeb will shortly be offering interviewers and coders the chance to find work via the same kind of search / index facility as that now serving the exec side of the industry. Advertising of vacancies is free for the first two months and the search should be operational as early as next week.

Agencies with an entry in the site's Survey Exchange directory will continue to get free advertising after this, while others will be offered a one-off rate or an annual package working out cheaper than existing media.

The original job search facility continues to grow, having recently passed the milestone of 1,000 current vacancies for the first time. The most regular advertisers continue to report that the site is their single biggest source of CVs and of actual placements. A record 7,500 pages of the site (including all directories and DRNO news items) were viewed in a single day in August.

The new jobs section is intended to round out the site and offer a more comprehensive range of job ads for all players in the research process, but is also part of a specific push into Field: it should be joined shortly by a Fieldwork Exchange working on similar lines to the existing Survey Exchange.

The latter has been a qualified success, moving from free entries to paid over the summer and keeping more than half its entries in the process (just over 160 at present and still adding one or two a day). 'Not bad in a crowded marketplace - it's enough to 'float' and start attracting serious numbers of research buyers and that's as much as we had hoped for' says a cheerful Nick Thomas, Director of MrWeb. Whilst this is the kind of upbeat woffle you'd expect from a marketing man, and a dotcom to boot, the promising start does compare well with the experience of two troubled research portals launched in the US last year. Survey Exchange members are to receive a number of discounts and benefits on other parts of the site, but the numbers to date have been achieved without offering these, a further grounds for optimism.

Watch this space for more news on the site's growth and new ventures, and indeed for a new look DRNO with its own new features and options.

All articles 2006-22 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas unless otherwise stated.