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Huma Siddiqui in New Delhi

 

Global opportunities await job seekers and employers in the defence

technology sector.

DefenceJobs.com launched recently aims at enabling these

opportunities to be realised by allowing job seekers to search for

suitable jobs and also submit their curriculum vitae to the site's

database (free of charge), via a standard web browser, says Pete

Walters of DefenceJobs.com.

 

The site offers instant 24x7 skills- matching services for job

seekers and employers in the defence technology sector.

 

According to Mr Walters: "Governments, armed forces and their

technology suppliers (and subcontractors) continue to seek suitably

qualified people with a wide range of technical skills." The skills

required are in the areas of electronics, computing hardware &

software engineering, networking & communications management,

pneumatics/hydraulics and other mechanical engineering, dynamics and

avionics technology, munitions and other broader areas of scientific

R&D. The full list of requirements is vast, but there is a global

shortage of suitable staff, he adds.

 

Mr Walter reveals that strategic alliances have been formed with well-

known industry institutes, major recruitment portals (such as

TOTALJOBS.com) and specialist defence publishers.

 

One of these alliances is with Battlespace Publications, whose

managing director Julian Nettlefold told The Financial Express: "We

are establishing hyper-links from our on-line services and will be

actively promoting the service through recruitment advertisements in

our paper publications".

 

The portal provides an affordable recruitment portal, focussed on

meeting the specific needs for defence technology. There are too few

other media and only one other web site attempting to do this; and

none are truly meeting the requirement, he points out.

 

Employers (and their recruitment agencies) can self-submit job

opportunities to the site, via a standard web browser.

DefenceJobs.com also provides employers with a low-cost matching

service between vacancies and job seekers.

 

The site is administered and marketed by Euro Business Networks Ltd,

using a professional media sales team and substantial re-investment

into both traditional and new-media promotion to build awareness and

visitor traffic.

 

According to Mr Walters: "This is an exciting time for everybody

working in defence technology. There is not only a great opportunity

for recruiting new talent, but also a growing need to communicate new

technology and promote the career development of established defence

technologists. This will be well served by an ideal alliance between

the best defence technology publications and the best defence

recruitment web site".

 

Mr Walter adds: "Let us not forget that military applications still

represent the highest level of technical excellence for many

businesses and governments. As progress continues to accelerate,

there will be an increasingly urgent need to team-up the specialist

skills as easily as possible ...and this is what DefenceJobs.com is

designed to facilitate."