Will we be in trouble with The Palace?

We’ve created a new button ad which we think is great! It’s a little playful, makes you stop and think, and most importantly lives up to the Zookel promise of doing things a little differently.

Zookel's latest button Ad

We’re now just waiting for the calls from the Palace and No.10 respectively. In the meantime we’d love to hear what you think of it before we roll it out completely.

As always good luck with the job hunt, and if you haven’t done it already don’t forget to join Zookel (and take advantage of the free career tools including psychometrics, video CV’s and Zookel’s social networking integration).

Zoe & Team Zookel

We have a Winner!

We’re always working so when the winner of our first Zookel competition asked if we could meet him on a Saturday to hand over the MacBook Air he’d won, we were only to happy to get out of the office.

Zookel Competition Winner - Jan 09

The Apple store in London was the scene and the winner – Scott – was happy to have a happy snap taken for prosperity. On collecting his prize Scott also shared why he joined (and actively uses) Zookel – ‘the idea of a web 2.0 CV really appeals to me, and with increasing competition for roles I like being able to stand out from the crowd by using the career focus profile and video CV’.

We’re excited for Scott – but selfishly we’re probably even more excited that the benefits we envisaged for jobseekers when we started Zookel are starting to be seen.

For our Zookel members that didn’t win, we will have some exciting new competitions coming up in the next few weeks just for you. And for any jobseekers who have yet to take advantage of the benefits of Zookel (incl. 6000 new jobs added in the last month) – kick start your job search by joining now and you will go into the draw for a great new 3G iPhone.

Paul & Team Zookel

We’re a month old! And what a month it’s been!

We first took the covers off Zookel’s public beta a little over a month ago, with the goal of changing the face of online recruitment.

Whilst there’s certainly a long way to go before we can declare our success, as a team (and indeed personally) we couldn’t be happier with our progress.

Our highlights:

• We’ve added over 6000 new jobs
• We’ve received some great support and press coverage - http://www.nmk.co.uk/article/2009/1/6/business-brief-job-hunting-in-the-web-2-0-world, http://www.bornpodcast.com/blog/?p=260, http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/zookel-com-online-recruitment-made-supple
• We continue to sign hundreds (& sometimes thousands) of new jobseekers every week

Keep tuned our plan is to continue to use this blog as a way of updating our users, clients, and supporters of our progress.

It’s a fair question?

Since we moved into public beta in mid December one of the recurring questions I’ve been asked is – ‘why launch a recruitment site in an economic downturn’.

When we first started developing Zookel in May 08, there were signs that we were potentially heading towards a downturn, so it’s a very valid question.

So, why did we continue to invest and launch Zookel rather than wait? The simple reason is that during this downturn (and the ongoing war for talent) the benefits of a site that can improve the process for applicants competing for roles, and for recruiters seeking to identify the best candidates are clearer than ever.

We’re confident that Zookel is starting to deliver real change for our users and recruiters. We hope you share our enthusiasm! And if you haven’t yet checked Zookel out – click here to see the progress we’ve made.

Paul & Team Zookel