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Swindon Academy

Swindon Academy is a 0 to 19 academy which brings together three former schools -Pinehurst Infants, Pinehurst Juniors and Headlands - into one family.

Our vision at Swindon Academy is to 'Inspire to Achieve', to us that means everyone - students, staff, parents and the local community.

The academy is currently being housed in the existing school buildings in Beech Avenue and Headlands Grove whilst a magnificent new building with state-of-the-art facilities is constructed in Beech Avenue.

With a broad and balanced curriculum and a specialism of science supported by a theme of business and enterprise, the academy offers students a wide range of opportunities.

With financial support from Honda, a major local employer, Swindon Academy aims to become a centre of excellence for science.

The academy is committed to developing excellent links with our local community and working closely with primary and secondary schools as well as local colleges throughout Swindon.

Futures Community College

A new College is to be built to replace the existing Thorpe Bay School. All teachers and pupils will transfer to the new college when the original school closes in 2007. This new facility will include a lower school for the children aged 11-14, combined with an upper college for those aged 14-19+.

This is the most innovative feature of the new college – the fact that it will bring together academic and vocational excellence under one roof. Pupils will be able to study a much wider range of traditional and vocational GCSE subjects. Prospects College which is the main sponsor of the new school, has been providing vocational training in the area for 36 years and already trains 2,000 young people a year. Prospects will be working with other specialist providers to ensure that there is a wide choice of vocational subjects on offer.

This will include: Engineering, Construction, Hair and Beauty, Business, leisure and Tourism, Animal care and many others.

Shoosmiths solicitors in 60 seconds

We don’t believe in too many words. We think they can get in the way of things. So here’s a 60 second video with some of our people talking about Shoosmiths. For more information about a career with Shoosmiths click here www.my-ijob.com

Working for Nokia

Want to work for Nokia, watch this great video and find out what its like. Then visit www.my-ijob.com for more info.

5x More job candidates thanks to video - Just don't tell anyone !

I found this article over at http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/10/01/video-job-postings/  The post is almost a year old now ,  how far have we come?  still some way to go?  will it all be worth it?

5x more job candidates thanks to video

Mon, Oct 1, 2007

Video

“Just don’t tell anyone about what we’re doing.”

This is how a recent conversation with senior VP Chad Peddycord of MRI Indianapolis almost ended. Fortunately, I was able to get approval to share the following information after a little arm-twisting and pleading.

Earlier this summer, the organization jumped headfirst into video. JobCentral’s Chad Sowash had a post highlighting the initiative and the redesign. As part of the strategy, MRI is aggressively promoting videos in their job board postings.

According to Peddycord, the first thing they did, which he believes is responsible for approximately 25 percent more views of the opportunities, was highlighting the videos in job listings:

Then they add a link to the video for each job in the job description. Apparently, many boards are against embedding a video within the posting, a la YouTube, so a link is necessary. Each video is unique, because it describes each job opening as opposed to giving a general employment branding message. Comments can be added as well.

According to Peddycord, since adding the video text and links to their postings, they’ve received up to five times more applicants when compared to traditional text-only postings. Specifically, this translates into 7 percent vs. 22 percent. Moreover, the applicants are described as being of better quality overall.

In addition to more candidates, the Web site’s overall traffic has increased and time spent on the site has doubled. Another interesting tidbit: The firm uses Blip.tv over services like YouTube, because while the big video sites tend to be blocked by corporate Web properties, the lesser knowns get through. This way, recruiters can reach candidates at work instead of waiting for them to get home to view an employment video.

Clever.