Category Archives: Employment

Local Internet data: Liverpool example

June 15, 2009

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Digital Editors Network forum, an event organized by Francois Nel from the Journalism Leaders Program at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). One of the topics that came up during... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 11:40 AM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Education | Employment | Football | Government | Local | News and Media | Property | Search | Sport

UK traffic to Polish websites declining

May 28, 2009

Last year we highlighted the massive growth in UK Internet traffic to Polish websites, noting how the increase in visits to a custom category local and expat sites reflected the growth of the Polish immigrant population in the UK. Things... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 01:00 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Economy | Employment | Social networks | Travel

Apprenticeships and The Apprentice

March 13, 2009

UK Internet visits to the homepage of The Apprentice, the BBC TV show starring Sir Alan Sugar, have shot up over the last week. Some of this traffic is a result of anticipation for the forthcoming fifth series, but most... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM | (1) | (0)
In Categories BBC | Celebrities | Charities | Demographics | Education | Employment | Experian | Government | Mosaic lifestyle | Search | TV

Top 10 websites of 2008

March 03, 2009

We published the results of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards today. These list the 10 most visited websites in the UK during 2008 for over 60 industry categories. You can see the full list on the awards microsite, but... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 02:50 PM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Economy | Employment | Fashion | Food | Government | Shopping and Classifieds | Top UK websites | Weather

Searching for the recession

January 28, 2009

Now that the UK is officially in recession, we thought it would be a good time to look at downturn-related searches. The table below charts the volume of searches for 4 key terms over the last 12 months, and of... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 04:30 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Economy | Employment | Government | Search

Unemployment, redundancy and Christmas jobs

November 17, 2008

The economic situation has worsened since our post on ‘redundancy’ searches in June, and unfortunately this is having a negative impact on job security. Consequently UK Internet searches for ‘redundancy’ have increased by 83% since August, reaching their highest peak... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 09:30 AM | (2) | (0)
In Categories Christmas | Demographics | Economy | Employment | Government | Mosaic lifestyle | Search

Google Docs benefits from growth in job searches

September 19, 2008

Like Heather Dougherty in the US, we have also been looking at the impact of the credit crunch on employment sites. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet traffic to Business and Finance – Employment and Training websites has shot... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 01:00 PM | (3) | (1)
In Categories Economy | Employment | Google | Search

Redundancy searches: employee and employer behaviour

June 26, 2008

Recently we’ve looked at how internet behaviour has adapted a number of ways to meet the challenges of an economic downturn, including consumer spending, inflation and house prices. However, until now we haven’t touched on the most worrying aspect: unemployment.... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 07:00 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Economy | Employment | Government | Search

Yahoo! and Microsoft: UK perspective

February 05, 2008

Following on from Bill’s and Heather’s posts, I wanted to share some UK data on the proposed Yahoo! and Microsoft deal. First up: webmail services, and as the chart below illustrates, Microsoft has a dominant market share with its Hotmail... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 05:47 PM | (1) | (1)
In Categories Email | Employment | Financial Services | Movies | Music | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Sport | Travel

LinkedIn demographics: an up-market social network and an up-market job site

January 25, 2008

In yesterday’s post I referred to LinkedIn as part social network, part jobs site. Facebook is the fifth largest site in its upstream clickstream, and last year Sandra wrote about the connections between the two websites. However, LinkedIn has a... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 08:30 AM | (1) | (1)
In Categories Demographics | Employment | Mosaic lifestyle | Social networks

UK job searches and Linkedin

January 24, 2008

I wanted to expand on Sandra’s excellent post comparing job searches in the UK, USA and Australia. The table below lists the top UK searches containing the word ‘jobs’ for the 4 weeks ending 12 January 2008 for three types... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 04:04 PM | (3) | (0)
In Categories Email | Employment | Search | Social networks

 

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