SupplyChainRecruit.com, the leading UK purchasing and supply chain job board, has reported a near 80% increase in application levels in the last 6 months.

Managing Director, Steve Crosbie, commented:

“We have worked very hard to extend our already considerable market lead in the purchasing and supply chain sector, and whilst difficulties in the UK and international economies have contributed to increased job seeker activity, a large part of the growth is due to extended market penetration and acceptance of our position as the market leader and job board of choice for purchasing, logistics, and supply chain professionals and advertisers.

In addition to our successes in the UK we have surpassed all targets with our dedicated North American and mainland European supply chain job boards.

We firmly believe that the worst of the economic slowdown is now past for the purchasing and supply chain sector, and whilst other areas seem to have suffered more, our recruiter clients seem to have fared well. Market sentiment certainly suggests that the sector is accelerating again.

As a job board we do however see other challenges and opportunities ahead. During the next couple of years we expect to see consolidation in the niche job board sector, particularly amongst the smaller job boards that have historically used pay per click sponsored ads to achieve exposure. The market is maturing and it will no longer be viable for the smaller job boards to just throw money at Google for a sponsored ranking and claim that they are great. The truth lies in the natural listings and surfers are getting savvier.

In the UK SupplyChainRecruit.com is the highest ranked Supply Chain website on Google (with the exception of the Wikipedia definition).

Specifically with regard to supply chain jobs, SupplyChainRecruit.com is the highest ranked website in the UK on Google, Yahoo, Ask, etc., etc..

This type of performance cannot be fudged and is testament to the hard work of our team, and the success of our service.

We look forward to continuing to deliver exceptional results for our clients, and to some exciting new developments shortly to arrive online at SupplyChainRecruit.com, and our other job boards, Jobs4Purchasing.com, Jobs4Logistics.com, Jobs4Warehousing.com, and Jobs4SupplyChain.com.”