There has been much speculation recently about whether the global credit crunch will have a negative effect on the telecoms sector, most notably the wireless and mobile sector, where there is a large number of SME’s providing telecoms solutions to the big network operators and handset manufacturers.

Some companies have recently commented that they will continue to recruit, but will focus on advertising directly, rather than recruiting through agencies which has proven expensive. Many have commented that they will use Telecoms Jobs since it has been established for nearly 3 years and has a great pool of candidates in its database and is top of Google, so candidates can easily find us.

Candidates have a broad range of services available to them, all of which are completely free. To start with, candidates are able to create their own account, which has their unique email address and password to gain entry. The account enables candidates to control and manage their job applications, save jobs that they are interested in, but want to come back and apply to them at some other point. There is no obligation to apply to the jobs they save, so it is also useful if comparisons need to be made in terms of job spec, so as to decide which job(s) are most relevant to apply to. In addition, candidates can upload their CV to our database, so recruiters can view their details and contact them if the candidates skills and experience match jobs they have but have decided to do a candidate search before paying to advertise it. This service effectively enables candidates to be headhunted by corporates as well as recruitment agencies. Candidates are also able to set up job alerts, specifying if they are looking for telecoms sales jobs, telecoms marketing jobs, or telecoms engineering jobs, for example. They can also select countries and geographical areas to narrow the job search and keep it relevant. The relevant jobs then get automatically sent to the candidates email address, to help them find the right job.

Telecoms Jobs also has some excellent information to help candidates and this can be readily accessed at Mobile Telecoms Careers, as well as jobs regularly advertised by industry leaders like Vodafone and Apple, who has been a recent entrant into telecoms with their excellent iPhone. Also on the positive side, there are some other major players entering the mobile telecoms sector, like Google.