Benchmark Recruitment
The people business... Hammer Design build South Yorkshire's smartest, friendliest recruitment agency website.
The Client
Benchmark Recruitment are market leaders in the Sheffield and South Yorkshire region - servicing the following desks: Administration & Finance, Creative & Digital, IT & Technical, Management & HR and Sales & Marketing divisions.
The Brief
To create an easy-to-use website, as straightforward to manage as it is to look for jobs or employees.
The website required automatic tagging of jobs as they are uploaded for easy searching and live updating.
Requirements:
• Full CMS Chamelon version 4.0
• Full calendarisation module for news, blog and events
• Homepage plug in modules for social networking - for example a live Twitter feed, for searching vacancies and story viewer
• File uploading module so that candidates can attach documents to send to Benchmark via email
• Site-wide navigation bar with a template which allows social networking, email a friend, and print page
The Skills
Website coding, design and development
Content Management System
Search engine optimisation consultancy and reporting
Social networking
The Product
Website and graphic design: New atypical typeface integration, Button design, New usability features, Story viewer development.
Design and development: Categorised pages and indexing system. Fully compliant system.
CMS: Chameleon Content Management System from Hammer Design plus bespoke tailoring
Technical: Extensive CSS styling. Ajax, Javascript.
Web Server Hosting: Database optimisation and serving.
The Outcome
Design and appearance: New Look.
Managerial: Easier to use website. Faster and more straight forward organisation of pages onsite.
Customers and sales: t.b.c.
