There was an article on the BBC News website on Thursday 23rd August, about Ofcom’s findings in their fourth annual report entitled “The Communication Market 2007.” The report highlighted the varying technologies preferred by different sectors of the population.

The BBC News article states that;

women, in some age groups, are the dominant web users and older web users spend more time online than any group.

• Among Britons aged 25-34, women account for 55% of the time this group spends online
• 16% of Britons aged 65+ spend 42 hours per month online - more than any other age group
• More than 75% of 11 year olds have their own TV, games console and mobile phone
• 15% of 13-15 year olds and 7% of 10 year olds have their own webcam

Both the BBC and the Ofcom article make for an interestng read and are well worth a look.

In the Metro this morning there was some worrying news about Monster’s database being hacked in the USA.

According to the Metro, it seems that hackers were able to log on to the site posing as employers and search for the CV’s of individual candidates. They apparently used a “Trojan horse” type program which installs malicious software, this swiped names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers, yikes!

The article quotes a spokesman from Symantec as saying

Such a large database of highly personal information is a spammer’s dream

This has only affected users in the USA so far, although it highlights once again, the danger of uploading personal information to CV databases.

I came across this little nugget of recruitment news today which makes for an interesting read.

The article by Onrec.com highlights the impact that the internet has had on the recruitment industry by citing a report by The Best of the Best about the rise in emarketing by small to medium enterprises [SME’s] in recruitment, and how effective these campaigns have been.

The article claims that;

….a significant group [of recruitment agencies] are focusing spend on the web and this spend is delivering results. For instance the internet-enabled recruitment agencies get 56% of their enquiries from the web.

This just goes to show that it’s all about online recruitment and of course in particular the marvelous Chinwag Jobs

I came across an article in Recruiter this morning, which was talking about the rise in online spend and its impending triumph over newspaper advertising in the US. This will inevitably cause a rise in recruitment in the digital sphere, and will undoubtedly be echoed on this side of the pond too.

The article goes on to cite a report from FT.com which predicts a growth of …

more than 21% per year to reach $62bn in 2011, making it bigger than newspaper advertising [in 2011]

The FT.com article makes for an interesting read and just goes to show that online really is the way forward, which of course, we all know anyway