A sudden but prolonged upturn in visitors to jobs website could be another green shoot.
As much as we’re in the demolition business, we’re in the website business; so like demolition companies watch their profit, loss and turnover figures, we take an eager (almost obsessive) interest in the number of people visiting the various industry websites with which we’re involved.
Of course, demolitionnews.com continues to grow and is now adding new subscribers on a daily basis. But, perhaps more telling is the number of visits to our demolition-jobs.co.uk website.
As you may recall, this website was created as a joint venture between demolitionnews.com and the UK’s National Federation of Demolition Contractors to help short and long-term unemployed demolition professionals industry back into gainful employment within the industry. The formula was simple – Unemployed demolition workers could register their details and advertise their availability to work free of charge; demolition companies seeking workers could view those details and contact those umemployed individuals directly.
Although like most websites demolition-jobs.co.uk sees regular peaks and troughs in the number of people viewing the site, there has been a sudden and prolonged burst of interest over the past two weeks. Indeed, the number of visits in the past seven days was more than the total number in both October and November 2009.
Could this be a sign that demolition companies are rebuilding the workforces decimated by the recession? We’d love to hear your views.
And if you are either seeking employment or seeking employees, please be sure to join the growing numbers looking at demolition-jobs.co.uk.
