IF YOU or someone you know is planning to relocate to Scotland, you will be pleased to know that they won't have any trouble searching for a job.

It has just been announced that Gazette Newspapers' sister jobs website in Scotland has the UK's strongest market position.

According to a new survey, Newsquest's s1jobs website claimed a greater share of its jobseeking audience than any other generalist job board in 2005, with an audited 143,000 unique users.

In the biggest independent survey of the UK's jobseekers, the National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) found that Newsquest's other job board interest, Fish4jobs, occupied second place.

A total of 24 of the UK's leading job boards participated in NORAS 2005, polling more than 18,000 jobseekers. The findings, which were backed-up with ABC electronic traffic audits of each site, were published by market researchers Enhance Media.

NORAS is a unique tool which enables recruitment decision-makers to openly compare the performance of job boards and make informed advertising choices. Such transparency benefits s1jobs, as the following NORAS findings reveal:

s1jobs attracts 141 per cent more jobseekers in Scotland than any other website. It reaches 130,638 jobseekers in Scotland, while the next best site reached 53,956

s1jobs reaches 500 per cent more jobseekers in Scotland than jobs.scotsman.com - reaching 130,638 versus jobs. scotsman's reach of 21,715

s1jobs enjoys more loyalty among its users than any other site - 89 per cent of s1jobs respondents claimed to have visited s1jobs before

s1jobs has the highest rate of advertising-led referral across all sites by far - 19 per cent of s1jobs users were attracted to the site by advertising (next best-ranked site 10 per cent)

almost one in three s1jobs users were referred to s1jobs by word-of-mouth - the second highest word-of-mouth referral rating among all NORAS participating sites

30 per cent of s1jobs users cited "ease of use" as the main reason for using s1jobs again - the second highest ease-of-use approval rating among all the sites.

Log on to www.s1jobs.com to start your search for a job in Scotland.