Text a Job (txtAjob.ie) Jobs to your mobile phone.
I previously wrote a post about Ireland’s only free-to-advertise text alert job board txtAjob.ie (Text a Job). They offer jobs to your mobile phone via text alerts.
In the piece I wrote before I remarked that a job seeker would be likely to receive lots of jobs that were not suitable for them. This was because the categories were very broad. I am delighted to report that this has been addressed in a significant manner. They have added a further 22 categories, meaning that subscribers to a specific category will have less flotsam to contend with. This is a very welcome development.
Of course, how relevant jobs are to the user will be highly significant when it comes to people retaining the service on their phones, so it makes good business sense.
TxtAjob have also stated that stale and repeated jobs will also be automatically removed. This has been a problem for all the job boards. As we entered the recession it got particularly bad, with fake job postings and multiple versions of the same job advertised. This was often in an effort to make an agency look like they had more jobs than were actually available. TxtAjob are actively removing any instances. The other job board to tackle this was RecruitIreland.com, who moved to a credits system like Monster last year.
It would seem that txtAjob have gained quite a few agencies as advertisers, but also have companies advertising too. I know that they have integrated with eRecruit to make job posting easier for agencies that use that service.
TxtAjob have also been advertising fairly heavily. They are running campaigns on Newstalk and on FM104, where they are also sponsoring FM104’s job finder spot.
Competing in the job board market is not easy, and txtAjob seem to be doing a good job of it. Since advertising jobs is free it makes sense to post jobs with them, particularly with the media coverage they are currently receiving.
