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List owners have been asked to circulate the message which appears below, and I am happy to do so. Mike Tribe >From the UAG (Universities Advertising Group) and University of Warwick http://www.jobs.ac.uk Jobs for the Academic Community jobs.ac.uk is a an recruitment website owned and created by the academic community. The service advertises job vacancies for academic institutions around the world. It is an example of the academic community working together to create something of value and is a venture that the community should be justly proud of. In the 15 months since launch, jobs.ac.uk has gone from strength to strength. The website receives more than 12 000 visitors a day and provides a free jobs-by-email alert service for thousands of people around the world. Over 260 academic insitutions now regularly advertise their academic and related vacancies on the site. At just 40 pounds per advert, the website provides the academic community with a cost-effective alternative to expensive methods of recruitment advertising. Indeed, one institution has reported to us that by using jobs.ac.uk they have already saved 250 0000 pounds. This is money we hope will be ploughed back into research and education. As you can imagine, the majority of the traditional media are still hostile to us. We have, however, had some success in persuading elements of the press to be more co-operative. This is partly because they are aware of the huge support that jobs.ac.uk has within the academic world and that the service is not just going to 'go away'. Despite the success of jobs.ac.uk to date there is still much to be done. The more people academia know about jobs.ac.uk, the more effective it will become and the more money academic institutions will be able to save. Therefore, if you have not already done so, I would ask you to do any or all of the following: - please visit www.jobs.ac.uk and perhaps register with our jobs-by- email facility - contact us at [log in to unmask] and we will provide you with promotional material for your department or institution - inform friends and colleagues about the service whether they are in the UK or overseas - create a link to www.jobs.ac.uk from any webpages you are involved with If have any comments or suggestions you would like to make about our service, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Thank you. Alex Sproat Director Jobs for the Academic Community mailto: [log in to unmask] ---------------------- Dr Michael Tribe Development and Project Planning Centre University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP United Kingdom Tel: (0)1274 233978 Fax: (0)1274 235280 E-mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/dppc/homepage.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%