Business Nouse Wins Londoner A Cornish Farm Holiday

Razor-sharp business acumen has won a London recruitment consultant an idyllic holiday on a Cornish farm.

Clapham resident Annabelle Moggridge correctly predicted the three top-placed contestants in BBC show The Apprentice – eight weeks before Sir Alan Sugar (now Lord Sugar) made his final decision – to win the competition run by Cornish Farm Holidays and recruitment website 1Job.co.uk.

And last week, Annabelle enjoyed her free five-day break at Degembris Farmhouse near Newquay with boyfriend Nick Causer.

“It’s been my first time staying on a farm and it’s such a contrast to London life – it’s been exactly what we needed to get away from it all,” said Annabelle, who works for London firm Modis International.

“You can go out and explore everything Cornwall has to offer, but when you come back there’s just complete quiet, it’s gorgeous. It’s a beautiful place, really picturesque, and definitely better than staying in a hotel because there’s so much character. It’s like a hidden gem, tucked away down all these little lanes – I don’t want to go back home.”

Annabelle’s work as a Recruitment Management Consultant has clearly given her a keen eye for strong job candidates, helping her correctly identify Yasmina Siadatan as the eventual winner of The Apprentice.

Annabelle beat hundreds of entries from candidates and recruiters all over the UK to win the holiday, citing Yasmina’s drive, ability and raw instinct for business as the reasons for picking her as the TV show’s eventual winner.

She was also delighted with her choice of accommodation in Cornwall, selecting Degembris Farmhouse from Cornish Farm Holidays’ portfolio of over 80 farms offering quality self-catering and B&B; accommodation.

Using the farmhouse as a base, the couple made the most of exploring the county’s landmarks and attractions, taking in the Eden Project and St Ives, as well as Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow and a tour of Camel Valley Vineyard.

Beaches were also on the agenda, with Annabelle and Nick visiting Porthcurno and a particular favourite: Holywell Bay.

Said Annabelle: “I didn’t realise how gorgeous it was going to be, all the beaches are amazing. Cornwall’s got loads to offer people, and there are loads of gorgeous little restaurants. And I would definitely consider coming to a farm again, it was so peaceful here.”

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Astute Recruiter Predicted ‘The Apprentice’ Winner And Runners-Up To Win A Holiday In Cornwall

A recruitment Managing Consultant Annabelle Moggridge at Modis International Limited, picked the winner and runner-up contenders of the hit TV show ‘The Apprentice’ to win the 1Job.co.uk and CornishFarmHolidays.co.uk ‘The Apprentice – Predict The Winner Competition 2009’.

Annabelle predicted Yasmina Siadatan was the best candidate to win, she also accurately predicted second and third place contestants as well. Her predictions were made after week 4 of the show, where the contestants had to produce, package and sell natural body care products. It was also where the team Yasmina was in made a huge mistake over the costings of their products. Yasmina went on to successfully defend herself in the boardroom against the team leader, HR Consultant Paula Jones, who was then fired by Sir Alan Sugar.

Annabelle said, “When you are working in recruitment you get a keen eye for strong candidates. I could see Yasmina had raw instinct for business, and the drive and ability to go with it. I was also impressed with her career so far – owning her own restaurant [The Mya Lacarte in Caversham, Reading] at the age of 27. She showed herself as passionate and professional, and having highly innovative business ideas culminating in her Cocoa Electric chocolates concept that I loved in the final show”.

Yasmina took the £100,000 a year job and works under Sir Alan’s eldest son Simon Sugar at Amscreen, a company that specialises in selling advertising space based around screens, using wireless technology, provided to hospitals, supermarkets, garages etc.

The competition was organised and run by 1Job.co.uk, the UK’s no.1 job search engine, and CornishFarmHolidays.co.uk the premier site for farm holiday accommodation in Cornwall.

Julian Felstead MD of 1Job said, “Cornish Farm Holidays and ourselves are delighted to finally announce the winner of the competition. Annabelle will be staying in a beautiful cottage that she has selected near Newquay this summer… I just hope the weather’s good for her!”

Annabelle’s predictions beat hundreds of entries from candidates and recruiters all over the UK.
Entries were taken on 1Job’s highly popular blog and forum website: TheApprenticeForum.co.uk, which has followed the BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’ series this year and previous years.

After 12 long weeks Sir Alan (now Lord Alan) finally selected Yasmina Siadatan over Kate Walsh saying “I can’t put it into words why I chose Yasmina it was just gut instinct”.

Julian Felstead commented, “If Sir Alan had only been able to take Annabelle’s expert advice, he could have appointed Yasmina after the 4th week and got her working 8 weeks earlier than he did!”.

www.TheApprenticeForum.co.uk
www.1Job.co.uk
www.CornishFarmHolidays.co.uk

About 1Job.co.uk – Jobs Search Engine:The 1Job, the UK’s No.1 Jobs Search Engine (source Hitwise), displays over 300,000 job opportunities each day. Over 1000,000 candidate referrals are sent to the job sites it lists each month. The business is operated by Direct Recruit Ltd, Swindon, Wiltshire. The search engine technology and algorithms were custom built in the UK and offer a unique job searching system for job hunters and a unique job advertising and traffic acquisition system for job advertisers in the UK and Ireland.

Contact: Wai Chun Lau – Design and Marketing Executive or Julian Felstead Managing Director1Job.co.uk 7 Basepoint, Rivermead Drive, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 7EX, UK.E: julian@1job.co.uk T: 0870 3500 230 W: www.1Job.co.uk

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1Job.co.uk ‘Recruiter Expert’ Predicts The Apprentice Winner

The recruitment industry and business sector’s favourite show, The Apprentice, has just started and 1Job.co.uk, the UK’s No.1 Jobs Search Engine, thought they’d use their secret weapon to predict the outcome…

… 1Job.co.uk’s most experienced recruiter (20 years experience and FREC) has done it this time… going by the alias of “Sugar Daddy” he has already predicted the winner of the hit TV show, The Apprentice, as being 21 year old Rocky Andrews.

‘Not only has our “self-confessed-expert” predicted the ultimate winner of the show, he’s also predicted the week in which each of the other candidates will fall. And all before the show started. If he gets it wrong well… maybe I’ll be suggesting he uses the 1Job.co.uk site to search for a new job!’ said Julian Felstead, MD of 1Job.

The predictions have been made based solely on the very sparse information provided by each candidate, on the BBC’s website.

‘Success in recruiting is often about intuition’ claimed Sugar Daddy, ‘With virtually nothing to go on I’ve had to use my gut instincts. I’m fairly confident that my predictions for each of the candidates fate will turn out to be largely correct… I hope so anyway’ he added.

1Job’s expert announced his predictions on 1Job’s The Apprentice forum and blog website http://www.theapprenticeforum.co.uk/

The search engine optimisation (SEO) and technical team at 1Job.co.uk launched their “The Apprentice blog and forum” site for the new series, only a few days ago.

Already the site is holding the No.1 position on Google for the term “The Apprentice Blog” out of 1,050,000 results. ‘Another great example of 1Job’s expertise in SEO’, said Julian.

To see if 1Job’s expert ‘Sugar Daddy’ got it right on week 1, and to see his future predictions on all the candidates go to: http://tinyurl.com/1JobApprenticeBlog

‘You can add your expert predictions and comments either on the blog or the forum of course… and maybe we’ll offer a prize at the end of the series’ said Julian Felstead.

http://tinyurl.com/1JobApprenticeBlog
http://www.theapprenticeforum.co.uk/
http://www.1job.co.uk/

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About 1Job.co.uk – Jobs Search Engine:
The 1Job, the UK’s No.1 Jobs Search Engine (source Hitwise), displays over 300,000 job opportunities each day. Over 1000,000 candidate referrals are sent to the job sites it lists each month. The business is operated by Direct Recruit Ltd, Swindon, Wiltshire. The search engine technology and algorithms were custom built in the UK and offer a unique job searching system for job hunters and a unique job advertising and traffic acquisition system for job advertisers in the UK and Ireland.

Contact: Wai Chun Lau – Marketing Executive or Julian Felstead Managing Director
1Job.co.uk 7 Basepoint, Rivermead Drive, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 7EX
E: julian@1job.co.uk T: 0870 3500 230 W: www.1Job.co.uk

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Hitwise 2008 Top 10: Congratulations To – Totaljobs, Reed, Jobsite, CV-Library… And US!

Hitwise have just announced their Top 10 most visited Employment and Training websites in the UK for the year 2008.

And the results are:
1. Jobcentre Plus (No surprise there); 2. Jobs NHS (The UK’s top employer); 3. Total Jobs (pleased to help your sister sites Caterer, CW Jobs, Salestarget etc); 4. Reed (pleased to help); 5. Monster; 6. Jobsite (pleased to help); 7. Guardian Jobs; 8. CV-Library (pleased to help); 9. S1 Jobs … And at number 10… the UK’s number 1 search engine – 1Job.co.uk

Julian Felstead M.D. of 1Job said,
‘It’s great that we’re again recognised as the best job search engine in the UK. The fantastic Hitwise accolade award is great to receive. What’s really gratifying though, is to have helped 4 of the top 7 commercial Job Boards in the UK achieve Top 10 status too. 1Job is a great source of candidates to the jobs on their sites and we’re pleased to help them do the best for their job advertisers.

‘In 2008, 1Job.co.uk sent over 12 million candidate click-thrus to Job Boards and Recruitment Agency sites. Our “Google, but for jobs service” helps candidates go directly to the vacancies they’re looking for in the UK’s internet job advertising space. Our clients receive high quantities of great relevant candidate applications and CV registrations.

‘2009 is going to be an important year for Job Boards and Agencies. Those that can exceed their clients expectations will be the winners. Our service helps them to do that by getting candidates to the right jobs faster.

‘We charge on a low cost performance pay-per-click basis and our vertical jobs search engine gives our clients far better results at lower costs than any other job, or generic search engine in the UK.’

For more information contact 1Job on: 0870 3500 230 or email: sales@1job.co.uk
1Job.co.uk Site URL: http://www.1job.co.uk/

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About 1Job.co.uk – Jobs Search Engine:
The 1Job – Jobs Search Engine displays over 300,000 job opportunities each day. Over 1000,000 candidate referrals are sent to the job sites it lists each month. The business is operated by Direct Recruit Ltd, Swindon, Wiltshire. The search engine technology and algorithms were custom built in the UK and offer a unique job searching system for job hunters and a unique job advertising and traffic acquisition system for job advertisers in the UK and Ireland.

Contact:
Julian Felstead – Managing Director
1Job.co.uk 7 Basepoint, Rivermead Drive, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 7EX
E: julian@1job.co.uk T: 0870 3500 230 W: http://www.1job.co.uk/

About Hitwise
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