Recent trends across LoveLocalJobs.com

It’s been an interesting time for both businesses and job seekers of late, with rising rates and prices continuing to impact the job market across the South East.

Here at LoveLocalJobs.com, we’ve taken a look at the stats across the job board, from the past few months, to see if we can pick out any trends that might prove useful to our combined network.

Website visitors growing steadily

Over the past three months, the number of people accessing lovelocaljobs.com has increased month on month, with over 14,000 people visiting throughout June.

In total, more than 35,000 people have visited LoveLocalJobs.com since April, of which around 30,000 were visiting for the first time.

Over 1,000 job vacancies currently live

On average, 833 vacancies have been added each month to the job board by local employers.

The total number listed now tops 1,000, indicating that more and more employers are turning to the job board for a cost-effective advertising solution in the wake of rising costs on other platforms and the demand to access and recruit great people.

The average application rate is 12%

This three-month average application rate is the highest it’s ever been, which means that for employers looking to hire, creating engaging job adverts is encouraging more applications from local talent.

For those struggling to find great people, posting vacancies on LoveLocalJobs.com could benefit you with more and more eyes on your opportunities.

50,000+ mailshots sent to jobseekers in June

In recent months, we’ve had more and more job seekers sign up to our regular mail alerts and in June alone, we sent more than 50,000 emails to our network.

We continue to use this channel as an effective way of highlighting the best opportunities across the South West to potential candidates.

What these trends mean for employers...

As a business looking to engage and hire top local talent, the information in this article should make for positive reading.

With visitor rates up and more and more new visitors accessing the job board, we’re seeing more people actively engaging with top employers and their opportunities.