Anyone got an email today from contractjobs dot com

[eek]

They want to charge £4.99 a month for something called Jobseeker Premium:
http://www.contractjobs dot com/staticpages/120830/jobseeker-premium/

Now I'm sure charging people to look for work is illegal I just can't remember what the exact law is but surely most of the bits it offers as an incentive to join will put agents off using the site.

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[cojak]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...ml#post1520777

[SimonMac]

I got one too, but seeing as I only ever use Jobswerve I binned it straight away

[NickFitz]

I got two, one to an email address I haven't used since about 2002 and one to my normal contracting address.

As it happens I have my mail client configured to always show the plain text version of emails by default. As a result, it opened with the salutation "Hi First Name"

(I did switch to the HTML view out of idle curiosity, and they'd got it right there; but still…)

[Gentile]

I would like to think such a scheme wouldn't work out. Most of us have a full time job trying to get job sites and agencies to stop the 'premium service' of sending us unsolicited and poorly-matched job spam. You'd think that if a job board started charging for the privilege, they'd end up with only desperate, sub-standard CVs on their books. Then again, that's what I said about LinkedIn and selling bottled water in a country with the most rain and free clean water supplies in Europe, so what the hell do I know?

[darmstadt]

I subscribe to a jobsite here in Germany but it provides a lot more than this one and I've got projects from it (also from the company who run it.) Some of the options you get are:

• your own web address for your profile and something called an online business card
• various areas where only you and registered companies can see your profile
• priority when positions are applied
• companies can contact you directly (phone, email, sms)
• profile optimisation
• technical literature (free books primarily)
• help with tax problems from an accountant
• lots of discounts for such things as train travel cards, conferences, technical journals, software, etc.

They also provide a members only area where there are such things as forums, various statistics such as which areas are those to look for or a salary checker

All in all it is actually worth it which I can't see from this one...