Welcome to October's edition of Useworthy. We have been busy organising our part in The Research Show, Olympia, Sion Mooney, a recruitment specialist gives his views on recruiting online, and David Bomphrey discusses why specialist Usability Labs should be used for user testing...

TUC spent a productive couple of days in Olympia promoting our new software WebIQ and letting visitors know what companies need to do in order to make their sites accessible. People were able to hear what their company website sounds like through a screen reader and check out WebIQ in action. To find out more about WebIQ or accessibility contact us.

Recruiting via the Internet has been widely touted as the only way forward for recruitment technology. Whilst the demise of traditional media has been greatly exaggerated, one area of undoubted growth has been the 'must have' careers section on the company website. Almost every FTSE 100 Company has a Careers Centre of sorts and barely a week goes by without a Unigate or Falkirk Council espousing the cost saving of taking recruitment on-line. However, even though articles talk of financial benefits derived by recruiting successful applicants, what about potential applicants who don't apply? Are you missing out? Do you know why people apply to your company, or more importantly why they don't? It seems obvious 'if they can't apply, then they won't apply.'

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Usability Evaluations can be carried out almost anywhere using little or no equipment other than that needed to run the application that is being tested. So why bother paying the extra and having your testing carried out in specialised Usability Laboratories using advanced equipment and monitoring facilities?