There has been recent discussion on the forum about services where you can search for vacancies posted by corporates on their own sites or on job boards.
Suneese do such a service and at some point I will endeavour to do a review of it.
However, whilst I was checking out their site, I notice they also have a service called "Website Monitor Plus" which is interesting.
Suneese have previously offered a URL monitoring service where there systems monitor the recruiter's own customer websites and alert them when changes are detected (I assume so they can see if their clients are posting up vacancies they could potentially work on). Their newly launched Web Monitor Plus goes one step further whereby it monitors the site and actually downloads any new vacancies that are published - then emails the details to the recruiter.
Nice little tool for a recruiter who has a lot of experience with one client, or wants to monitor a number of companies in their niche sector without having to a) trust them to tell them when they have new vacancies or b) check the webpage themselves every week.
The costs are nice and visible and straightforward too - for each site you are monitoring there is a £100 setup and a £20 a month monitoring fee. As with all Suneese services there are no contracts and the minimum commitment is only 4 weeks.
I'd be interested to hear from any recruiter who use the service and see how it's saving/making them money.
ADDITION
One of my contacts (Elkie Holland at Prospectus IT) has dropped me a note since I wrote this sharing the following information:
I read your article and monitoring client sites is something we've been doing for years as we work in a niche sector. Very useful.
There are lots of software packages / services out there to do this and we evaluated loads and then chose and still use UpdatePatrol.
Features:
1) Monitors web sites, blogs and text files for changes
2) Improves your productivity by working silently and unattended
3) Notifies you of changes by popup, sound and/or email
4) Shows pages with changes highlighted in the internal browser
5) Checks single pages or entire web sites for changes
6) Checks normal pages or frame based pages
7) Monitors PDF files for changes (NEW)
8) Monitors Google SideWiki comments for your web site (NEW)
9) Optionally ignores dynamic text like page counters and dates
10) Easily imports your existing bookmarks
Cost:
US $69.95 for the Standard Edition or US $129.95 for the Pro Edition with additional advanced features. You can try the trial version for free if you are not ready to order yet.
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