PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
22 November 2006
Contact: Melissa Hayles
T: +44 (0)20 7843 4928
Naturejobs.com becomes the first job board specializing in scientific recruitment to offer free online postings in a move that is certain to cause waves within the industry. Academic and industrial recruiters searching for talented scientists will now be able to post single job adverts online through naturejobs.com for free and take advantage of the 1.5 million page impressions and 200,000 unique users on naturejobs.com every month. A wide range of additional paid online options are also unveiled that offer advertisers the opportunity to increase the visibility of their job adverts on naturejobs.com. The new services include contextual advertising options that harness the power of nature.com and its 30 million page impressions per month.
“The launch of Naturejobs.com is a significant step in the evolution of science recruitment that capitalizes on the power of our web site and aligns our recruitment business with the shift towards online advertising that has been seen in other sectors. Scientists across the world have learned to place their trust in Nature as the source for high impact science and award winning journalism, and as a result we have one of the most highly visited scientific web sites. Naturejobs.com and our revolutionary free posting offer will build a large volume of high quality science jobs that will be attractive to both job seekers and recruiters - placing naturejobs.com at the epicenter of science recruitment” said Peter Collins, publishing director at Nature Publishing Group.
Nature is frequently referred to in the world’s press as the most reliable source of up-to-date scientific information available. Since its launch in 1950, more than 275 Nobel Prize winners have published over 1,700 articles in the pages of Nature. Naturejobs.com, the premier jobs board gets almost 1.5 million hits every month and our unique users have grown steadily to 200,000 each month. Naturejobs.com is renowned for the high quality and effectiveness of its service. Jobs are served to a high traffic level - totaling over 35 million page impressions per month on the nature.com platform.
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Contact details:
Melissa Hayles
Marketing Manager Naturejobs
Nature Publishing Group, London
T: +44 (0)20 7843 4928
E: [email protected]
Links:
www.naturejobs.com
www.nature.com
