Bluecollar.com.au is Australia’s first job site to provide a dedicated, single point of access for entry into blue-collar industries and related trade areas, providing employers, recruitment agencies and labour hire providers with access to all their recruitment and training needs.

Established four years ago, the website is now the most visited blue-collar specific recruitment portal in Australia, offering free access for job seekers to search job listings, seek career advice, and receive e-mail alerts and newsletters in a user-friendly environment.

The site provides visitors with approximately 3,000 job listings at any point in time and boasts 65,000 unique visitors a month. This is no mean task for an organisation which is adding between 200 and 400 job advertisements each month and servicing Australia’s 5.5 million strong blue-collar workforce in the process.

Chris McKay, General Manger of bluecollar.com.au, cites the recent rapid uptake of the Internet among blue-collar workers, the current skills shortage within Australia, and the move from print to web advertising for job listings, as the major factors fuelling the company’s growth over the past couple of years.

“There is an enormous skills shortage at the moment, with employer advertisers looking at any medium where they might have some opportunity to find people,” McKay said.

Supporting bluecollar.com.au’s website presence is IntaServe, a specialist hosting provider which maintains over 400,000 domains for 300,000 customers around the world.

“We chose IntaServe for our web hosting requirements to help provide the support, security and reliability we were looking for to maintain our position as one of the biggest job searching site in our space servicing millions of blue-collar workers in Australia.

“When we came on board with IntaServe, our original site was built on old technology. They helped reconstruct the site with an eye on the long-term potential of the site itself. IntaServe guaranteed the website would be live 99.99% of the time, which is crucial to job candidates, and us,” said McKay.

IntaServe’s Shared Service Package includes pre-installed server hardware and stock software, redundant Internet connectivity, web-based account management tools, network administration and management backed by 24x7 technical support and hosting at a secure data centre in Sydney.

“The shared service is very cost effective and great value for money (aren’t these two things essentially saying the same thing?). The amount of available bandwidth affords us the luxury of conducting monthly surveys to gauge opinion on a wide range of topics from the current Industrial Relations reforms to mobile phone carrier preferences and community sentiment about importing labour from overseas to patch up the skills shortage in Australia,” added McKay.

IntaServe also gives McKay and his team the peace of mind that comes with having the site hosted in Sydney, with 24-hour support in case problems arise outside of normal business hours.

“Whatever they say they can do they can, rather than messing you around and giving you the illusion that something can be done when it can’t. There has never been a time when they haven’t been able to help us out,” said McKay.

While bluecollar.com.au’s immediate aim is to be the number one destination job site for blue-collar workers, the organisation will soon sign up for IntaServe’s dedicated server package as it looks to add another job service website to its range of employment services. Branded as whitecollar.com.au, the new site will soon be available to service job seekers in the management and clerical industries.

If your online job hunting has hit a brick wall, why not hit the bluecollar.com.au website and discover all the benefits of a reliable and secure website experience created especially for job seekers like you.

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